John Paul Young - Yesterday's Hero Lyrics

This is real music ! Not the crap of today !

I heard this song when I was 12.Y.O.
43years later, I played piano cover of this song.

https://youtu.be/pCyDIlGkKvk
There are other covers of John Paul Young in my channel. See if you want.

Nice hair. These were the hits when I was young. Never became a hero...😔

My fave song when I was a wee foetus

Good song for the cover band bay city rollers

24/12/2019.... sexy voice JPY, Thanks for the Memories <3 U

Heard JPY interviewed the other day, where he said the guy who talks in the background on Yesterday's Hero was non other than Michael Caton, the actor best known for being on
"The Castle."

Nothing better than seeing him in his sailor suit singing this song even if it was a short time back in 1979

This is racist. where is the asians man

This is pure class...Vanda & Young were amazing.

Meant to say jpy

Luv joy still to this day is a hunk

The Bay City Rollers also did this song too. So who is the original one who did it first this guy or the rollers ?

Just saw JPY sing this last weekend on the Gold Coast.( Australia)
He sounded just as great as he did back then. What a fantastic voice he has. The All Star Band was awesome too.

OMG the hair styles. The clothes. When sharpies ruled. I miss it so much

Dotdol no speed cameras.cheap counter meals..cheap smokes..real cars..bring back the old days

Bay City Roller? Yesterdays Hero? Who sing first?

Celeste Azarcon John Paul Young performed this before they did. 😊😁

@Aimee 1095 thanks

Attended his show yesterday...Omg I love I love him and all the band members.John is very kind man.He came after the show and signed fans books and took pictures

Ozzie Legend! Whata pumpin song! Mwahhhh!

BRILLIANT!

Never enough profile shots of JPY.

je vous aime beaucoup ,grosses bises de FRANCE .gratitude

Love this song buf I CANT STAND LOVE IS IN THE AIR 🤢🤮

And sure enough John Paul Young has very much become Yesterday's Hero.

he is playing in a show at the Sydney Opera House in August. im looking forward to it.

Debra H saw the apia concert 2019 it was amazing to see john paul young and others it's a memory I will never forget.

Omg TAA jet!!!

Såååå braaaaa🤩

good job molly for doing this film clip hes a,legend

Still a good one; BEST version!!

Great times back then-Loved it!

I just realised how this song and clip could be the story of David Cassidy in the mid 70s

YESTERDAY HAIR-O

Good song

Now he's John Paul Old.

Correction: John Paul Dead

Love JPY

And not a cell phone is sight, Ahh those were the days.

When I walk down the streets
See the people who stop and stare and say
Haven't I seen that face somewhere a long time ago
When I walk down the streets
See the stranger who says 'why, hi'
With a 'how you goin', buddy'
When you walked on by I thought I'd say hallo
They say: haven't I seen your face before
Weren't you the boy that used to live next door
Weren't you on television every night
Haven't I seen you round
Take a look at me, I'm yesterday's hero
Yesterday's hero, that's all I'll be
Take a look at me, I'm yesterday's hero
And yesterday's hero is all that I'm gonna be if I don't get together
Make a new start and be somebody better
All that I'll be if I don't get together now
When you walk down the streets
If you know me, then pass me by
If you wonder what I'm doing
Don't ask me why I don't read the news
When you walk down the streets
If you're sorry then don't feel bad
If you followed my story
Then just be glad you ain't in my shoes
Because haven't you seen my face before
Yes, I was the boy who used to live next door
Yes, I was on television every night
Haven't you seen me round
Take a look at me, I'm yesterday's hero
Yesterday's hero, that's all I'll be
Take a look at me, I'm yesterday's hero
And yesterday's hero is all that I'm gonna be if I don't get together
Make a new start and be somebody better
All that I'll be if I don't get together now
Yesterday's hero, yesterday's hero
Yesterday's hero, yesterday's hero

Wow! This used to be such a big hit...

Karl pilkington with hair!

Back when Melbourne was white. Good times.

I agree mate, bloody Asians have ruined new Zealand and australia

Back to the "White Australia poiicey" hey guys?

@Connor Gibson & I'm sure the Maori would say the same about "bloody whites" having ruined New Zealand hey?

favourite song from way back

This was not 1975, it was 1977.

That’s what they said about Stevie Wright !!!!!!! But he’s not ❤️❤️😎🎶❤️

Josie Quintela lmao JPY and Stevie were Australia’s finest

I loved this hit in the 70’s still do

No entendí... el heroe es su sacó???

yesterdays memories is what keeps me sain

Se parece al actor beau bridges cuando era joven tambien.

Absolutely love my youth, best music & it continues

U got to love it I do

Melbourne is a shithole these days

Song would suit Cobra Kai down to pal

I made me a pair of flares the other day that look like that. Rock on John!

I was 4

NICE SONG .

THIS SONG WAS THE POWER AND ENERGY OF AUSTRALIA,THANKS TO PRIMINISTER TURNBUL WILL BRING IN 200THOUSAND MUSLIMS TO INVADE AUSTRALIA , SO WE CAN BECOME LIKE SWEDEN RAPE CAPITAL OF EUROPE ,OH SEE IT ON YOUTUBE. THIS IS WHAT PRIMINISTER MALCOM WANTS FOR AUSTRALIA, ...GO SEE ITSVCOMING TO YOUR TOWN.

AUSTRALIA DESTROYED BY A GLOBALIST PROGRAM SEE AGENDA 21, ANN BRISSINGTON EXPOSING AGENDA 21 ....PLEASE AUSTRALIA WAKE UP, AND VOTE THEM OUT, VOTE THEM OUT, AND VOTE IN NICE PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT US .

IT WAS A NICE BACK THEN,I MISS IT VERRY MUCH . BUT NOW EXPOSING GLOBALIST GOV PROGRAM ,SENT IN AFRICAN ,SUDAN SUMALI ,HOME INVADERS,TO ATTACK US ,SO THEY CAN BRING IN A NEW WORLD ORDER TO CONTROL US. WAKE UP AUSTRALIA,AND THE WORLD. SEE INFOWARS.COM EXPOSING THE FAKE NEWS.

LOOK AT MELBOURNE NOW 2018 AFRICAN MUSLIM CRIME WAVE THANKS TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER PRIMINISTER MALCOM TURD BULL DESTROYING OUR AMAZING AUSTRALIA UNDER A NEW WORLD ORDER PROGRAM . 90% industry GONE , A FAKE HOUSING SHORTAGE TO CASH UP GREEDY BANKERS DESTROYING AUSTRALIA HOLDEN TOYOTA AND FORD GONE DID THEY STOP THAT ? NO, NUMBER ONE KILLER OF AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE IS SUICIDE, THANKS TO GLABALIST CONTROLLED GOVERMENT

He looks like Nathan West.

Its flat with no bubbles .... its yesterday's beer oh ...

RIP George Young.

An aussie classic you beauty

A good era that unfortunately is lost in today’s bullshit music industry. Thank god there’s enough content in the 70s and 80s to get me through till the end

Clarence Boddicker I’m 14 but I agree.. very strongly..but I love the easybeats and est

Bay city rollers version is better

Still yesterday hero we luv jpy

Jpy rocks

Great music not like some of the music now

Jpy still rocks in 2017

Joy still rocks in 2017

This American thinks: "Why couldn't someone have told me in the late 70's that that Bay City Rollers song was a cover of an earlier one by that "Love Is In The Air" guy?

But I'm tomorrow's hero. I'll sink the world under the oceans.

Never yesterdays hero!

Nah over John, not timeless like the others from Countdown.

Jpy rocks

IS AUSTRALIA BETTER NOW UNDER GLOBALIZATION.OR BETTER BACK THEN........AMAZING BACK THEN. SEE INFOWARS ON HOW THE NEW WORLD ORDER WANTS TO INSLAVE YOU.

He does a good job of it but the Bay City Rollers did it better

browserhound stfu ur so stupid and wrong this is way better get lost baby city rollers fan

loved this song when i was a kid

Hmmm....wonder why this innocent video get so many racist comments. Many years ago I heard that Australia had the most Nazis in the world....is that why?

Bon anniversaire John Paul Young!!!

I luv this song so much

Good oltimes no muslims hitting u whit lorrys or stabbing yu whit knives on boardwalk.

I always felt that Harry and George wrote this song about Stevie Wright. This was about a year after they worked on his Hard Road album where they learned he was doing Heroin. It's a great song but it may have hit closer to home to Stevie. RIP.

Stephen Allen yeah Rest In Peace George and Stevie they were the first and the best

my friend brena all i have is this clip you are one in the crowd. ..r.i.p 4 yrs

True Melbourne.. Australia was amazing to grow up in.. but don't be so naive as to say rascist comments, because if you look at all countries, every country pretty much has also been ruined by big Corporations and Governments, not the people who make up the population!! Look at the bigger picture.. so narrow minded.. We all wish we could turn back time... sprooking these comments, you are the problem. 😞

Pretty well nailed it Keryn..
And the explosive immigration is largely driven by the endless bombing of little countries for no worthwhile reason whatsoever.

I remember this song when i was really little. Delta dawn was playing along with Mohammad Ali's song 'Float like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee'. I was only six at the time but that shows what type of impact music has.

This is JPY, sir, your racists comments are unappreciated! I'm using a friends account because I'm locked in a mental institution and am being persecuted for being so open and honest about the "truth". They think I'm a nutter that's yesterdays news, they are trying to brainwash me, and changed my name and credentials to "John Paul Stratton". The government and the media are involve and even the church which run St vincents hospital (Catholics) are trying to stop me from bringing the world to realise the system is corrupt! The etiquette school girls weren't to polite either (in the film clip they had to be put behind fences!) Walk the line, find out who you are and be yourself! or not...

Love this one also.

While we are in the mood.

thanks to globalization australia is yesterdays hero ,see info wars be set free

THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!

Take me back!

is there another cover version of the song it's sound familiar to me not sure where?

I think it was Bay City Rollers...that also madeit.

Bay city rollers one was shit compared to this

So this is what Karl Pilkington looked like before he lost his hair!

Love this song.

What a great Hit from the 1970's . 1975 I was 21 years old living in Cremorne Sydney Australia and JPY ( affectionately known as squeak ) played with his band , The All Stars and every Saturday we would be among the many fans at the then Strata Hotel . I had the pleasure of meeting JPY and if you read this John I remember you showing me your car at that time the mighty Corvette Stingray which I later bought 1 . These days I am between Sydney and Bangkok where I run into a mutual friend , Ian Molly Meldrum who visits The Balcony Pub in Silom Soi 4 .

LOL, I never saw Molly in Bangkok because I never go into bars in BKK :) but I lived there past few years. I used to attend the shooting of Countdown at ABC in Sydney every time it was in Sydney, and Bandstand at channel nine too, in the 70s.
JPY played at so many concerts I went to in that time. I haven't had a chance to
reminisce for years. Can only do it online because I haven't been back to Oz in so long

Life was simple, music was better, Look what we have become. Most music today is a remake of somebody elses

Aha and its all fukked coz of the iphones and Snot Moronson!

I LOVED MELBOURNE BACK THEN , NO HOME INVASIONS And fuckin crime ,,but globalists de industrial Australia and no jobs  fake housing shortage ,,,see info wars for the real truth,

Agree 100%. Back then I had 4 job offers in the 1 go, hardly any crime, petrol was cheap and life was good. Now all the jobs have gone overseas and the crime is rife.

bahahahaha no crime? The Painters and Dockers ring a few bells mate? Armed robberies at every bank, junkies sticking people up, get serious dude. Ask old mate Les Kane if he remembers any home invasions, once you find his body. Or Chris Flannery. Or Brian Kane. Or Ray Chuck. Or Laurie Prendergast. Or Vinnie Mikkelsen. Ah yeah Melbourne in the 70s was such a peaceful place. You fuckwit.

sue hempel that is were i was born.......so long ago. it has changed

my friend brenna it is 4 yrs ...you were in this video...haha i see you! god speed friend

never was convinced that this one was only sung by BCR

Omg it's sonny from Skippy!