The Barron Knights - Food For Thought

This is a piece of film work directed by Piers Bedford in 1979, along with some of the 150 music promos of the 1960s & 70s with some commercials, documentaries, etc from 1960s to 2000. PiersBedfordMedia holds no copyright to this video, we only hope to share an experience created through a career.

[nikwalsh]

My mum and dad used to go and see them live at Blazers in Windsor. They had all the music cassettes and thought they were hilarious. I guess it was ok for its time.

[euroreborn]

imagine trying to release this

i used to listen to a cassette tape of these as a kid :)

[djdale.]

Love these guys!! Still have their albums!LOL

[craigcollier-wilson]

Love the barron knights fantastic group

[atomictraveller]

sure i've seen the footage once before.. :O
the production on the chop suey sequence sort of predates aphex twin's windowlicker

[citizenseventies]

I remember this video and until recently, I hadn't seen this since it came out in '79 and upon seeing it again after 40 yrs, some of it is a bit vague though I certainly remember the Chinese restaurant part.


Shame the video is cut short so I guess this is all that survives of it, maybe due to most of it being wiped and it appears no other video of this is on here.


Regarding the Chinese restaurant bit, the sad PC brigade would have a field day if they saw this, lol.

[elaineb]

OMG! That chop suey bit is hilarious. Never seen or heard this song before. So funny. I laughed along with them as a 6 year old in 1978 and, at 50, find them even funnier, as it all makes perfect sense now knowing what all the original songs that they parody actually sounded like. Immensely clever musicians. Anyone that does not like them or find any of it funny must be very sad indeed and need a lesson on how to be happy!!!

[stevenmccorkindale]

I used to find it funny but that was before I married a Hong Konger, lived in Hong Kong for 8 years and now we have 3 children together not to mention the extended family. That said, keep it here don't delete it I've no time for cancel culture.

[Realm-of-Horror]

Aaah, I knew there was a video for this song and I hadn't imagined it. Where DID you get this from???

[ferrylad]

Barron Knights were meant to be the house band in the Copacabana scenes in Scorsese, s Goodfellas, , but they were doing a summertime special in Nuneaton and couldn't get the time off, , , , sad really.

[radiomovieti]

'¿Alguien sabe a que cancion pertenecen los primeros 20 segundos?

[jfc]

I found out luckily that the lead "singer" is dead. Thank fuck for that. Don't have a heart attack gammons. Just a joke...

[rajnirvan]

Loved the M Pop Muzik bit. The silly SJWS and PC brigade will find this offensive

[magicknight]

Punnery to bland music! Never thought they were funny back then, maybe in the 60s.

[kaml]

I would love to see the Baron Knights perform this song with all their props in Chinatown in front of an audience of triads. Then let see whether the knights have the balls to say it’s a joke.

[The_Macaroon]

I'm no social justice warrior, but that that just seems sooo racist today. Terrible

[michaellavery]

Chumbawamba do better song of the same name.