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"The Best Years of Our Lives" is a song by the British rock band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released in 1975 as the title track from the band's third studio album The Best Years of Our Lives. [1] In 1977, a live version of the song was released as a single from the album Face to Face: A Live Recording .
The 7-inch single was available in two versions: Best Years of Our Lives; We've Got Them Running (The Counting Song) A limited edition "Xmas Party Mix" remix of the song became available as a 7-inch single over Christmas 1982, which received substantial radio airplay in place of the original version over Christmas 1982.
On July 14, 2022, YouTube made a special playlist and video celebrating the 317 music videos to have hit 1 billion views and joined the "Billion Views Club". [ 65 ] [ 66 ] On April 1, 2024, the communications app Discord incorporated a short trailer video into their in-app April Fools' Day prank regarding loot boxes .
The Best Years of Our Lives is a poor pastiche of Bowie a couple of years ago. Harley has made an interesting single but the LP does not match it." [37] In the US, Cash Box believed the band had "a surefire smash with their latest". They wrote, "The band cooks and grinds in the David Bowie style with the emphasis on the spacey light pop rock ...
The Best Years of Our Lives was a massive commercial success, not only becoming the highest-grossing film of 1946 but the entire 1940s decade. It opened to the public at the Astor Theatre in New York City on November 22, 1947, and grossed $52,236 in its first week.
Writing about the 2003 BGO re-issue, Martin Aston of Q felt the album was a "fans-only purchase" and concluded, "Harley blamed 1976's sapping heatwave for the fact that he traded such pop perfection [The Best Years of Our Lives] for a dense, tricky, almost anti-glam party line that exploited his new crew's session-musician skills.
The Ultimate 2016 Challenge became YouTube's fastest video to reach 100 million views, doing so in just 3.2 days. It is also the eighth most-liked non-music video of all time with over 3.40 million likes. On December 14, 2016, shortly after The Ultimate 2016 Challenge was released, the Spotlight channel surpassed 1 billion total video views. [5]
The Best Years of Our Lives is the debut live album by Australian rock musician Richard Clapton. The album was recorded in concert on 16 April 1989 and released in September 1989 and peaked at number 23 on the ARIA Charts .