Joel, Billy - Back In The U.S.S.R. Lyrics

I first heard this song in Blue Angels: Around the world at the speed of sound documentary.

I love his guitarist Steve Martin very talented

Alter, wie die Russen abgehen... XD

So many cuts, so much high-intensity, I like it.

It would be fun if Paul McCartney joined in

We won the cold war with a guitar solo

曲が始まる前のコメントで「長生きしてくれ」と日本語の空耳が頭から離れなかった。

How times have charged. Russia is now Capitalist and the USSA will become communist after Trump.

Lo g Island says hi.

I'm in St. Petersburg

Holy Friggin Shit! WOW, Billy was just "Off The Hook" What a riot that concert must have been!

Я рождена в СССР , было мне в 1987 16 лет, но вернутся туда не хочется ;-). Помню, что Бил приезжал и он был известен.

Красавчик

Fucken amazing energy 🔥🔥🔥

I Love Elton John Version!! !

This song is real or cover?cause i hear it in THE BEATLES

This is a cover of the Beatles

best billy joel....

I like the USA and USSR flag being together

I like the USSR flag not flying over a country as they starved millions of their own people to death. It's pretty great.

"Music, the great communicator"

It won't ever get more Punk Rock than this.

Glory to the USSR !!!

You're kidding right?

RIP to the 7+ million people killed in the USSR, they starved to death at the hands of their own government. Don't know how luck you are, to not be one of them.

I wonder if this was from the TV special 'A Matter of Trust' that aired on ABC here in the States back in 1987. I remember seeing this on there.

1:10 Daryl Hall and John Oates doppelgangers LOL

STOP IT!

Now that's how you do a great show!!! Simply amazing !!

One day till World Cup

Wow he was climbing a pole thingy XD 1:35

This is quite possibly the best video I have ever had the grace of seeing.

Does Billy still do the spinning on top of the piano. It's really cool

lol no he’s 69

I'm 🇺🇸🇺🇸 USSR SUCKS HA HA HA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Odd they didn't mention anything about gulags in the song...

I thought so too, and people keep b#tching at me that it's not a pro USSR song.... I mean there's not even a hint of the millions of people staved to death by their own government in the USSR... Unless that's what the whole "don't know how lucky you are" bit was about, but in context it doesn't seem like it. I think they were just stupid communist or socialist supporters.

So close to the original, but still made it his own. Really nice!

He sounds kinda like Paul on this

May S, yes!

Now _that_ is a damn good cover.

The pride of Da Bronx pays tribute to the best from Liverpool. And how!

Well put. Reminds me that people are just people wherever they're from, most of us have an urge to connect with others, that colour and creed don't have to cause enmity, and that love wins.

1:15 "GET THIS MIC OUTTA MAH FACE"

I saw this video in 1987, and it was the first time I'd seen the Russian people...not the soldiers or the stereotype images from Rocky IV. I thought "Wow, they're just like us" It's good to see that the Iron Curtain is no more.

"They are just like a us"
No, they are better

Yes, we are like you but just a little bit better)))

towringer We are all the same its amazing. I want to hug u all

@Jhonny Cage X Rage Next you will be screaming "ve are de ubermensch!" or some shit. Be thankful that at heart we really do all want the same things

Yeah, I'm glad the USSR isn't starving millions of it's own people to death anymore. That's great.

То есть русский

Обожаю эту песню..... Кто русском?

Elton's version in 79 was much better

This live rendention kicksss.. motha asss..., this concert live version by B.Joel N Band gives the original recorded version by The Beatles a competitiveness in the world of Music....

Is there a completely naked guy at 1:46

Sam Enders, no. He has pants.

6th
One of the best

what a performer! he should have been an acrobat ha.

Fucking commie

BroadstuartGaming Who?

@1legomaster The Beatles and all the losers who did covers of this crap propagandistic song. I mean there's not even a hint of the millions of people staved to death by their own government in the USSR... Unless that's what the whole "don't know how lucky you are" bit was about, but in context it doesn't seem like it. I think they were just stupid communist or socialist supporters.

Jesus Christ. More cuts please :p

Damn....rocked the house

Piano MAN ... Una spanna sopra tutti !!!

That looks like a fun crowd to be in

This is literally the best Beatles Cover ever made.

Regents Official got to get you into my life by earth wind and fire!

Ни какой лажи, ТОЛЬКО ПРАВДА !!!)))))))

What a lad.

best billy joel song....

harri hiltunen this is a Beatles song

A useful idiots song is more like it.

best billy...

best version this song....

OK I'll tell him! 6:06 PM Laika Says HOWWWWL at Laika with fassbenderAround your neck? (is that all? Anything else?) Nope That's it. Good Uy Eh?

Billy's energy in this video gets me so hyped

Wish the beatles' version was on youtube :(

U need to look harder, It's been on utube for yrs.

Where? All the versions I've found were either fakes (claiming to be the beatles, but lying) or they were muted by youtube.

Good news. It is now.

Zaji1911 it is

Zaji1911 also the Beatles created the song

THANKS,   "BLACK LIVES mATTER?"

What are you, a Trump voter?

Mick Funny Yes, got a problem?

Does anyone know the beatles ;/

yes Michael Jackson bought all of their music rights some time ago. The Beatles sold us out unlike the Rolling Stones.

Everyone does, that’s the joke.

billyn paras....

Did Billy clone himself? All I see is Billy Joels running across the stage...

+Jacob Eibs For a bit there he was everybody in the audience too. He's got Super Powers!!!!! LoL.

+Van PastorMan He doesn't have superpowers, he's has mutant powers. Billy Joel is "Multiple Man". :-D

Ballsy, Billy. Real ballsy

Bernie Saunders gets off on this.

@Henry Autumn 🤡

Que grande. Que gozada. Que gran tipo

+Edu G ¡Si! La cancion es muy grande.

don't take any shit from anybody!

If you go to one of his concerts, then I hope for you that you're not a microphone...

+Laura IMLA Most definitely. Judging from this video, they get beat around more than Rhianna on a Date Night with Chris Brown.

So where's the Beatles' plane?! :D

1:55 He says Leningrad girls, so this must have been there.

they had no idea in mind what "great" things are to follow after 1990's.

what great things, music hit the pits, just rehashed junk or pop. what else

I think what he means is the fall of ussr

The internetti

This really exemplifies the power of music 

How? Eastern hordes heard the music finally (well freely and live anyway) what they should have from the day one. And by judging the developments in recent years, they never bought it. That's one reason why everybody in the West hates (or fears) the russian and it's entirely their fault.

I'm not looking at in from a financial standout or anything tangible. Look at the US and USSR flag sown together, for that short time the cold war was over and everyone was just having fun. Look at the crowd dancing and cheering it was a hell of a time that united people who were told they were enemies but realized that they weren't at war with each other

@Mac Wyche Tangible is exactly something I'm looking for. And this Billy Joel video (Elton John made his mark too) here is many years back from the Cold War i.e. Soviet Union breakup. Many knew, many sold (The Beatles already) but the system went on and I was the one in the 80's after MTV and everything hollering that it couldn't last. Well it did and will.     

@Mac Wyche You should watch the documentary "Billy Joel: A Bridge to Russia"


It was really great, and quite an eye-opener!

1987...USSR...Concert in Leningrad probably, or Moscow

Юрий Расторгуев

My bet is on Leningrad- on the second refrain, Joel changed the line about “Moscow girls” to “Leningrad girls,” which to me implies he wasn’t performing this in Moscow. Of course, he had a song called “Leningrad”, so that could have something to do with the reference.

@RassilonTDavros He met a guy named Viktor in Leningrad during this concert. Which was in Leningrad, Viktor was his inspiration to create the song Leningrad.

three in Moscow and three in Leningrad

Anyone who knows what concert this is? When and where?

@Simon Larsson its 87 for sure but i THINK moscow

@Simon Larsson This was at the Leningrad Concert in late July of 1987

@Simon Larsson You can watch the entire show on the dvd/cd here: http://www.amazon.com/Matter-Trust-Bridge-Russia-Deluxe/dp/B00IL0GLTA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434524248&sr=8-1&keywords=billy+joel+live+in+russia

I am sorry, but I cannot help but laugh out loud at the keyboardist and his dynamic"white man dance."

now i get what ritalin is for

Max Schumann lmao

I think the comment,"don't take any shit from anybody", went right over their heads.

He sounds just like Paul McCartney in this hehe

Not at all

Yeah no... I love the cover and I think this version does a few good things with the part where he repeats my my my my my mind sounds much better with Billy and his singing, along with his stellar piano skills, but I miss the loud in your face guitar solo that was so quiet in this cover

Pax Russo-Americana.

isimuraable wished it could've stayef that way

"Don't take shit from anybody .."

he sings it better than the beetles!

I believe you meant The Beatles 😉

@James Valenti nope

James Valenti No, Just No.

James Valenti honey go educate yourself

I don't know if I'd say that, but this is certainly a very good cover. The song suits Joel well.

Awesome performance. Great upload. Only thing that could've made this better is if the translator sang along with him lol j/k

im glad these people got their freedom from that communist shit...rock on russia!

Michael Quirke you do know that it was much more than one country In The USSR

MAN THIS IS JUST FUCKING AMAZING

Well said!

Done that song full throttle like it should be played

really? I'm SHOCKED! (sarcasm)

Oh was it now?

This song was written by the beatles

the comment was 1 year ago. no reply button existed then

there is a reply button for a goddamn reason

Вот чего хотели советские люди, рок-н-ролла и веселья, а не накатить за сталена. Правильные люди.

I really need to see this concert !

I'm russian,i'm proud of this!oh my god thank you for deliverance of the Soviet Union)))

Where is the "Beserker" duet with Olaf?

That has to be the most energetic cover I've ever seen of this song, ever.

Was this held in USSR?

TheGhostof HumanKindness Funny enough, yes.

what was it