Average White Band - Atlantic Avenue (Live at Pebble Mill, 16/05/1995) [HD]
Classic performance from 'Average White Band'. Taken from their appearance on 'Live at Pebble Mill', first broadcast in 1995. Newly restored in HD.
The Average White Band (also known as AWB) were a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. They were best known for their million-selling instrumental track "Pick up the Pieces", and their albums AWB and Cut the Cake. The bands' other notable hits include: "Cut the Cake", "Queen of My Soul", "School Boy Crush", "A Love Of Your Own", "Atlantic Avenue", "Work to Do" and "Let's Go Round Again".
AWB have influenced others, such as the Brand New Heavies, and been sampled by various musicians, including the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, TLC, The Beatnuts, Too Short, Ice Cube, Eric B. & Rakim, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, Christina Milian, and Arrested Development, making them the 15th most sampled act in history.
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Lyrics:
Here I am, strolling down Atlantic Avenue
With the sunlight in my eyes.
Here I am, and there's nothing I would rather do
When I want some peace of mind.
I leave the smoke of Rio behind, as the evening starts to fly.
I want to feel the ocean breeze, where the mountains kiss the sky.
So come on, down Atlantic Avenue
Let the samba take a hold of you.
'Cause I know there is no place like the Avenue
When the music gets a hold of you.
Drive along to Ipanema there's always time to spare
Forget the troubles of the world, when they get to much to bear.
Won't you please come on, down Atlantic Avenue.
Flying down to Rio
Never thought I would be, walking by the ocean
here today, oh
Pretty soon I've got to leave, but I know my heart will stay, ooh.
Here I am strolling down Atlantic Avenue, with the sunlight in my eyes.
Here I am, and there's nothing I would rather do
When I want some peace of mind.
So come on, down Atlantic Avenue
Let the samba take a hold of you.
'Cause I know there is no place like the Avenue
When the music gets a hold of you.