Lake Shore Drive
Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah Lyrics

@frankkoller2622

It was a huge hit in Chicago!
🙂👍

@cathynyhoffmierlak6958

It was big in my hometown of Chicago and still gets played on the radio occasionally.😊

@bernardbober7300

It was big in Milwaukee.

@mr.intensity2685

​@bernardbober7300 It's a KSHE classic in St. Louis. I used to listen to this song all the time growing up not knowing that John Jeremiah was from nearly the same area of SW Illinois as I was, or that I would later meet him because I used to work with his brother Jim, and later John came to work with us. The last time I saw him play this song was the day before Thanksgiving, 2006, and he was playing it on the upright church piano in the local village hall where we were having our company Thanksgiving dinner. RIP A, H, &J.🙏

@HollyVee

I think it was specific to that area. I never heard of this song at all.

@andrewbudek-schmeisser3073

Got pancreatic cancer, and this song reassures me that Chicago is the true Heaven. I'll be OK.

@butchyshoe

i"M rootin for ya Andrew !!!!!! God bless !!

@andrewbudek-schmeisser3073

@DENNIS GOLDFARB Thank you so very much! You just brought light to a really hard day.

@andrewbudek-schmeisser3073

@GoobisG Thanks man. It's really vicious now but no school I ever went to had surrender in the lesson plan. No point learning it now.

@robertmarchetti7449

Last week I was back in Chicago,, took my daughter headed south on Lake Shore Drive and had her play this song. She loved it, I miss the good Chicago.

@carolkrone3610

Growing up in Chicago was great, wasn't it?

@georgeraab4492

THIS SONG IS BEYOND THE MOST UNDERRATED EVER

@samanthaburds6392

Exactly!!

@huntrrams

Its a hit on Chicago oldies radio. After GoG added to their soundtrack, it popped up !

@tannwich5350

It changed my entire opinion of a whole city. Not many songs can do that.

@felixgutierrez993

@Tannwich Ehhhhh I still wouldn't go to Chicago ngl...maybe

@debaucheryscenes

definitely isn't underrated

@TheMasterQuests

That piano player is killing it its arguably the best part.

@SalarJung

TheMasterQuests and the end is like the beginning it only gets better...

@omygodimontheutube

That's John Jeremiah! RIP: http://thesouthern.com/news/local/obituaries/john-jeremiah/article_a70e30eb-af5a-55fb-9b9a-cde1941203a8.html

@EricAtRandom

I wouldn't have believed it was possible to play that fast!

@MrLorincombs

TheMasterQuests without a doubt

@FromeFmAjayD

Agreed but whoever's on violin is playing for his life too .

@davidl570

I know I'm not the only former Chicagoan who gets teary-eyed while watching this.

@Port35

You're not. Former Chicagoan here who finds this tune catchy and kind of sad at the same time. I love it though.

@vladdydaddy6610

Im a current Chicagoan n its not the same anymore

@davidl570

@Frederick Price Good to hear!

@davidl570

@Vladdy daddy How so? Visited it recently and loved it like always.

@vladdydaddy6610

@David L blessing to u

@KK-zq3dm

To us Chicagoians, white, black whatever, there will always be Lake Shore Drive, Marshall Fields and the Sears Tower. You can change the names "but the song remains the same ". Peace to the healing world.

@sherriffwiggles4515

Healing world? 2022 is gonna be a doozy with all the disturbances going on in the world. It is also greatly disgusting to me discrimination is so high nowadays wether it be race, age, or even the vaccine bullshit. Why can’t the world just jam out to this tune.

@penderyn8794

Don't forget that Chicago was named by the very Native Americans kicked out by white English settlers

@mariopantoja8259

It's always going to be comiskey park. Go Sox

@lisaa8795

@K K Due to our penchant for abbreviating things, it'll probably always be called The Drive or LSD. I hear ya, I refuse to call the Sears Tower by that other name. It's a point of pride with me, having worked in the basement there for a few short months.

@Beerdylover

@Penderyn look up Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable

@79casual

Just stood in a pub in the middle of Dublin with ten of my mates, this comes on and I’m blown away by the song within 50 seconds I’m asking the guy behind the bar what the name of the artist is… and here I am, I’ve repeated this song around 15 times already, I’m addicted to it… absolutely stunning

@TDItaly98

The cleverness of the lyrics, the piano and violin, the arrangement, the vibe this song simply just has! Incredible. Grateful to Guardians of the Galaxy for introducing it to me, now a permanent part of my playlist

@dcowgill1

71 years old, never once listened to this song without breaking into a grin!!! RIP boys

@Arjetube

the 1970's had such insane well crafted music. its beyond real

@meneersfeerbeheer

Thats the [L]ake [S]hore [D]rive for ya loll

@poopoo1521

thats why i love 70's music

@frightfulbuffalo7081

Nothing can beat the 70s or 80s music.

@realname5332

@Nappyheaded Lion He claims the song isn’t about LSD but I can’t believe that lol.

@toke7560

I miss the 70s so much it hurts. Just want to turn the clock back, and stay there forever.

@Stroudtucson

Having grown up in Chicago I always get goosebumps when I hear this song. It perfectly describes the feeling of driving on Lake Shore Drive, especially on a beautiful summer evening. Love you, Windy City!

@howardrubin6928

Amen! This song always brings me to tears

@scottloar

I've done it a hundred and more times, runnin' south on Lakeshore Drive, comin' into town, and after 50 years the memory is vivid, never dies.

@innocentmwasi9287

If NASA found a way of making Voyager 2 play out this song in space, Aliens would want to visit us

@cord2807

You can't hear sound in space; space is a vacuum... But also, yes.

@BC-kx6db

@Tomato!!! are you suggesting that LSD cannot transcend a vacuum? Skip Haynes cares not for particles.

@hodaniel8109

it could be annihilation of human race

@lindadc2764

@Tomato!!! !!!

@erikgreen1990

It’s already out there bud

@stixywixy

I can’t believe I didn’t hear this before Guardians of the Galaxy 2. What an absolute legend of a song.

@robbie4860

That's why we should listen more to popmusic of the 60s and 70s!! 😘

@rickybev3078

Sames, that opening piano is incredible.

@tannwich5350

Probably the only song that could have been played on a radio station every single day and people didn't get to absolutely hate it. People still love it like the first time.

@angeliqueplute8018

This is my uncle Mitchell's band....he died today. I can't even know how to tell you how much I miss him.

@PikachusKetchup

I'm so sorry. My uncle knew the band. Such talent.

@pattyg.418

+Angelique Plute This is one of my most memorable songs from my past--when times were much more laid back--and happier. It brought a lot of joy to a lot of people. May he R.I.P. his music lives on. Condolences to you and your family.

@faichaimond

Well, he's (at least this song from his band :) ) going to be forever remembered thanks to it being included in a soundtrack for one of 2017's most anticipated movies. Rest in peace.

@ezragirlie

I know it's been a long while since you posted but I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am for your loss.

@angeliqueplute8018

Thank you.....it is a hard loss for me. He is my favorite uncle. I am so thrilled to find out this song is used in Guardians of the Galaxy 2...I already have tickets to see the movie on May 4th.

@mr.papagorgio5087

June 25th, Chicago decides to rename you. All my life this song, this road, a huge part of my life. It will always be Lake Shore Drive to me. It will always be LSD.

@brenready2277

💯♥️✌️

@airportapplejuice9271

absolutely

@ruidasilvamartins

What's the new name in chicago then please ?
Greetings from Switzerland

@hvipomgb3969

I got stuck on LSD going to North pier to play battle tech, drove up from St Louis, hit 55, and LakeShoreDrive. 4.15 from that point to north peer 2:45h the last time jerry played a show at soldier field that night, but all the deadheads were like zombies in and out of traffic walking on the lakeshore. Dirty hairy pitted rancid smelling hippy chicks begging everybody for a miracle..94 93? June July, not sure. I still have my battle tech card in my wallet

@airportapplejuice9271

@Arcanis It’s called DuSable lake shore drive for Chicago’s first non native settler, it’s stupid because he has a bazillion other things named after him and now he’s taken over Chicago’s lake shore drive

@Achillunes

This song feels like speeding down a dark road at 11PM on a warm summer night with 4 other people in the car, all laughing with eachother while you look out the window, watching the lightning from the oncoming storm.

@8thhousemoonrabbit205

Yes it does. I've lived in Southeastern GA and have done just this, many times with friends.🖤😌🎶

@Achillunes

@8thHouse MoonRabbit Whenever me and my grandparents go to Holden Beach in NC, we always do this after we go eat. Good times 😌

@mariopantoja8259

I literally did this on lsd driving down lsd with 4 other people at 4 am after an underground party going back home....just gorgeous 😍

@msimon6808

Yeah. Listening to this song while driving Chicago's LSD. 4AM in the morning.

@ZoeSimza

That's actually what the song is about. Lake Shore Drive is the name of a famous street here in Chicago, where this band is from. It runs the entire length of the city along the shore of Lake Michigan. It goes through both the poorest and richest neighborhoods, hence the lyric "from rats on up to riches" and it passes right by a famous building called the Metropolitan Tower, that has a really big bright blue beacon on the top of it, which is what "pretty blue lights are guiding the way" is referencing.

@themetalchica

I was born in 1976 and recall sitting in my carseat next to Mom and this song came on. I was a toddler and it just made sense to my heart. It's the first song I remember hearing. Still gives me nostalgia goosebumps.

@mattsalamone8215

RIP Skip Haynes.
This video is a perfect memorial.

@arouse8597

This song brings out an emotion that’s so real. Not one single part is fake.

@beachter1

I'm from the Northern suburbs but live in Indianapolis now. Since 1972, I've wanted so badly to hear this song while heading SOUTH on LSD.. Well, yesterday, I was heading North when it came on...SO, I quickly got off at Fullerton, turned around and went back and YIPPEE!!! After 39 years, I was headed South on LSD listening to Lake Shore Drive!!!!!

@jeffsecret1168

And how did it feel?

@certainlysoup508

by LSD you mean...lake shore drive I hope? Oooh boy...

@deverborgentelefoon4479

Hahahhahahahaha, man i wish i was with ya.

@beachter1

@Jeff Secret Fabulous!!!

@astroturf2957

@CertainlySoup same

@robsato194

This is one of my favorite tracks from the Guardians of the Galaxy These guys are talented and underrated. It's great that James Gunn exposed them to a wider audience. May they rest and peace.

@Daniel-kq8qs

Hola xd

@astroturf2957

It’s also in SCP confinement

@therabidscorpion

It's crazy the movie starts out so happy, and by the end of the movie it's just tragedy.

@justindoplayer1516

Same

@Nick-wt1no

Same +1

@benrcohn

The line about ‘water on the driving side’ gets me every time as an ex-Chicagoan. There really is no road I’ve found like LSD because in any other city that road would either have to right on the water or the view would be blocked by now with 1k condominium complexes. Not in Chicago. Other than one building that snuck through in I think the late nineties that whole big stretch of land on the east side of LSD is parks and beaches. Truly one of the great drives around sunset. Perfect encapsulation in the song.

@JackDaniels-tx4qx

If you want something that comes close, there's FDR Drive and the Henry Hudson Parkway.

@marcbottenberg5189

One of the greatest songs in music history.

@lamarjohnson4985

I'm 65 years old and have lived in Chicago for years and have driven Lake Shore Drive too many times to count. A wonderful experience. Brings back memories. Great piano ❤

@janicekramer2322

Great song for a great city!!! Only people that live in Chicago can really appreciate how true this song is!!!!

@annabellademus9719

I LIVE IN CHICAGO I LOVE THIS SONG , THE DRIVE IS BEAUTIFUL,

@jb0177

This was my mother's favorite song. Every time I hear it, someone is chopping onions.

@cwselinakyl

lol

@carlhart7336

Funny, the same thing happens to me.

@tinycockjock1967

Fucking ninjas with onions

@RaptorJesus6969

That's sad... Hope she had a happy life .

@dimaztri19

are you StarLord?

@db-333

Chicago is the most beautiful city in America! Will always be my home at heart ♥️! Where all my greatest memories came to life 🙏🏻 I will miss you! ♥️♥️♥️

@lynnchotoocho9713

In 1968 I took my first car, a '58 Chevy, for test drive on L.S.D. , a memory to be cherished forever. I thank my brother, Rick for telling me about this lively song today.

@injustice9387

My dad turned me onto this song after we went to a wedding in Indiana. We went to Chicago because its his hometown. This song brought literal tears to my eyes after seeing how beautiful the city was, and I'll never forget L.S.D.

@lorenzosmith3112

I recently introduced my niece to this song, she loves it. I drive her everyday from Hollywood into downtown.

@Mike-gn4mh

Every time I’m in the Chicago burbs this song comes to mind. Naturally, I have to sing it loud in my truck repeatedly until I’m out of Illinois

@danindixie

I've never lived in Chicago, but this song STILL makes me wistful for my days a youth, driving all over my home state. It also makes me wish I was a Chicago resident (although I'm proud to have been raised in the South). Beautifully done, and I'm not surprised that it makes Chicago folks misty-eyed.

@chipsurbaugh5582

booooooooooooooooooooooo

@totenwizard88

If youre from Chicago you love this song it hits home!

@bruceragatz9046

Not from Chicago but I've been driven LSD a few times. Wish I were there now. I'm a Milwaukeean who moved to Florida 17 years and now I'm staring a Cat 4 hurricane in the face, yeah I wish I was on LSD right now.

@jorgegalindo9675

Miss the wind city

@joekosobucki2141

I’m from Milwaukee- one of my older brothers turned me on to this classic song- and Whitebird, by Its A Beautiful Day! 50 years later- and I’m still enjoying both great songs!

@ghoxon8312

I sang this on on lake shore drive with a 70 year old Uber driver on my last night in Chicago before moving back to Europe. She insisted I sing it with her.

@janearkell5185

I was living in Toronto Canada when this came out and I remember blasting down Lakeshore Drive heading to Mississauga in a friend's Caddy Convertible with this tune playing over and over again - the memories that this song brings back are sheer enjoyment. Angelique, may this song forever tie you to your lovely Uncle Mitch and the memories that this song brings to you. God Bless.

@karaholley9578

Had the radio on and this song came on as I'm folding laundry and my 3year old bouncing on the bed to the song, what sweet memory I'll have because of this song, 💗💗💗

@charlieprichard6844

That piano riff is something else

@mustuploadtoo7543

It sounds like the piano to 'Oh yoko' from John Lennon's Imagine album - can you check if I am just made though. Sounds like the same chord progression too.

@Kgermaine

I can’t explain it, but after we die if we got to watch a video showing all our life’s experiences, I’d want that sound playing over it

@ZoeSimza

The piano riff was written and performed by John Jeremiah, my father's college roommate.

@fortyforfree

I would hear this on channel 32 news every morning here in Chicago. Right before they would cut to commercial they'd do a shot of the city and play this song.
My and my mom would watch a bit right before we left to school and her to work and more often than not we'd catch the song. That classic piano at the begging.
Glad I found this. My mom and me don't really see each other in the mornings any more.
Brings back nice memories. I'm waiting for the right time to play this to her one day. 😊

@fortyforfree

+Freyja11331ify
Not sure. I'm not that old to really know about them and I barely found out the name of the song.
But there's this really cool blog about how the song was made. It's really long. Detailed. Cool stuff, I haven't finished it yet. I'll look it up and link you.
Even if they were to not be from Chicago they are honorary Chicago citizens.

@cinibar

Hey what a great story! Always did like this song. I didn't live in Chicago but close, near Joliet, but still liked to go there, especially to Old Town, on N Wells.

@MrMkayultra

Malaquias Popocateptl play it to her now

@RaptorJesus6969

Man you making me reminds me my mom when she was there .... I miss her, and this song remind me of her some how .. ...been 2 year almost 3.. we didn't see us because she live to far away from me .. I hope you played this to you're mom and bring back good memories cheers up :)

@brewtownonesix

I would remember them playing "everyone wants to rule the world" by tears for fears

@Kesselmo

Brilliant song! I hear him at least once a day! A masterpiece for eternity! Thanks for that🙏!

@SJones-uu7qm

Agreed. And it's a shame that many native Chicagoites, are unaware this song even exists. There was no better feeling I got back when I was younger than coming from visiting my mother at 2:00am, or even more, going to visit her, coming from my home with my drive starting from Granville and Kenmore and ending on the Bishop Ford at 115th and King Dr. I would always reach into my ash tray and grab a big "Duck" smoking it while driving early 70's-80's. This was in my fully loaded Lincoln Continental Coup, my Lady falling asleep in the passenger seat. I would always consider myself lucky to catch this song on the radio while driving this stretch. No feeling like it for a beautiful ride in the, Chi, especially at night. I've found no comparison to date. That is, "Riding Southbound on LSD, heading into town". No other road or 20 minute drive just like it. In the world. Period.... And while I'm not trying to be competitive, Rio, Asia, France, bring it on if you feel you can because ya'll have some nice stretches, but none like this one I'm afraid. The Chi's concrete canyon lit up on one side reflecting off Lake Michigan on the other. So I literally mean, No Where. The Chi got this one. Peace.
SJ, aka, DaSlimone.

@mikey6482

I'm a displaced Chicago boy.... and this song makes my homesick and nostalgic. Good feelings? So why are my eyes tearing?

@HarmonyMan

I haven't heard a song this GREAT in a long long time. Ah! 1971, What a year.

@paulreynolds8245

Moved from Chicago area when I was 50. Tears still come remembering the times with friends. Most are gone. 'MY KIND OF TOWN,CHICAGO IS.... TAKE ME BACK TO CHICAGO, TO LAY MY SOUL TO REST....
BE BACK TO SEE GRANDKIDS AT CHRISTMAS. Watched sunrise on LSD and Montrose harbor on the back of my dart sport after daye night. OH BOY!

@pendurna

Happened to think of this song today for no particular reason. It's still beautiful and holds it's musical integrity beyond the limits of time.

@yudan4302

It is a piece of art

@ClumsyDipper

Trying to fall asleep tonight, but had this piano stuck in my head. I searched the only words I could remember "there ain't no road just like it" and remembered. Finally I can sleep now lol.

@chicagosusieq8548

I was born in a hospital just off Lake Shore Drive in 1970 and this song always makes me homesick.🥺

@theempirestrikesback

I literally live on Hollywood and this goes through my head every time I get on Lake Shore.

@howardrubin6928

Being from Chicago now living in LA, I play this at least once a week to be reminded of what a great city Chicago and especially how much I loved Lake Shore Drive. I well up every time I hear this!!! Fabulous song!!!!

@brettcurtis5710

Guardians of the Galaxy re-awakened an old memory and bought me here! Magic!

@feinstei

The writer of this classic Skip Haynes passed away on October 4th, 2017. Rest in peace....

@junkiejackflash

That was my 21st birthday

@olivierzanolin1798

N'

@tannwich5350

So glad he lived to see it finally more widely appreciated after GotG

@Io-Io-Io

feinstei l hear one Eugene von Heitlinger wrote the song... ???

@lisaa8795

@IoSee I'm late to the party by a couple of years, but Is that a trick question ?

@JR_ST

This song never fails to put a smile on my face

@mistershitcut5833

1971 - Absolutely great song and band until today.... not forgotten. A ride in a Mustang convertible on the higway No.1 south to the keys and this song. ..wold die for that.

@mamafaka1289

Chicago, I love you ❤❤❤❤we played this song when the white Sox won the 2005 World Series we were at Duffy's Tavern by Lake Shore Drive and we were all crying 😢 to this as we witnessed the Sox win 😂.

@jimringomartin

50 years a Chicagoan. Being a young man in Chicago actuality the suburbs. It was a fairly rare treat to actually drive the loop and LSD but the water and the buildings, Navy Pier, Gold Coast, Lincoln Park.... i live in Seattle now but hearing this song again, like it was on the LOOP radio station makes my heart ache for Sweet Home Chicago.

@boataxe4605

RIP Lake shore drive.

@martynh5410

Was driving along LSD one Friday afternoon, pouring with rain, lots of traffic.  Had my i-pod on... played this and all of a sudden the drive became more fun...

@donaldswafford6987

Unless you're stoned it's just another freeway

@Seahawk213

I bet it was the best drive you have ever had Mr H.

@jodysams4880

Martyn H its not talking about the road there talking about the drugs

@elaineho1519

Jonathan Sakks it's pretty much a phone, search it up on google

@michaellafreniere3599

Have done that too-Sofieann B.

@rayo1366

15 years of driving on Lake Shore Drive, 22 years of living right next to it, and I never discovered this until today. I love it.

Whenever I see and hear this video it makes me kinda tear up cause I was born and raised in Chicago and lived North of Lake Shore Drive and even tho I have relocated whenever i see pictures of "home" I still get misty cause no matter where I am now there is just something magical about Lake Shore Drive. So many friends and Loved ones have gone on..but Chicago is still and will always be "My Home"...:)

@rajsindha7432

I lived in Chicago in the seventies on Lawrence and Kimball and still big fan of the seventies I am 67 now in IOWA

@bobpettit5258

I first heard this song while living in Gillespie Illinois with an older lady (Cougar).1988. Mistake of my life. But I still love this song. Not so much the Cougar.😂

@average...enjoyer5667

I found this a few weeks ago and I have been listening to it everyday. I will never get tired of this song.

@goldenhorde6944

The Neil Young-style live clip at the end was the perfect addition to tie this together, thank you.

@morninggloryseed

Song is so good it brings tears to my eyes.

@llainen

hahah mee to! amazing song.

@AlexHernandez-el2hp

Morningglory Seed me to

@MrBollivar

Yes it does bring tears as I have traveled LSD many times and at all times.  Greatest of great songs.

@mikekouten7540

same here mang

@nodictature

Morningglory Seed the same

@sissuesace1724

If you've ever driven it, you'd swear this music was coming from your car.....smooth ride. Thanks for the cruising memories

@deankowalski9438

This music, this sound...takes me back to a simpler time. When music was written and performed with feeling. A part of my youth when we all lived in the moment, and could appreciate it even then.

@sacresies

Dam.i miss CHICAGO.
Best memories there. No other city like CHICAGO

@dougarnett7898

One can leave Chicago but Chicago never leaves you

@groundef

What an amazing song. A week ago I heard this playing at an outdoor shopping plaza, and immediately liked what I was hearing and then I used Shazam app to identify and download to my phone. and then, after listening and reading the lyrics, I learned that the song is about my favorite road in the entire world. And and me and my two lifelong best friends have had so many great times and memories in Chicago and that road.

@Eric31297

My parents live next door to the last surviving member Ted aliotta what a great neighbor he is bless his soul ❤️

@paulbudvitis7656

When you experience Lake Shore Drive at 4 in the morning this song connects to your sole.  When I play the song for people here in Texas they can't believe how good it is and that they never heard of it.  

@craighicksartwork

Paul Budvitis Why would a song connect to your shoe?

@wesleymatthews6356

I liked this just bc I'm from Texas!

@Hixx367

how to attach songs to my shoe? please teach me your ways O master.

@marksmod

When you experience Lake Shore Drive on acid this song connects to your soul.

@michaelkemel9711

With love from Chicago :)

@MAGPIESRULEOK1

I'm from Australia and this song rocks

@nutsackmania

by men at work??

@Eric31297

I used to work with Ted aliotta

@ruidasilvamartins

I just cry... This song reminds me all my good friends who died this year, and this song gives me the power to feel the life well, for them.
Guys, there is people WHO DIED ! Let's just enjoy the life, and do the good things ! I love you all <3

@dogeman3367

I <3 you to

@ruidasilvamartins

@Doge Man :D Love you too, greetings from Switzerland :)

@PaddyO1958

I think everyone from the Midwest would find something to like about this tune. It's a brilliant combination of lyrics and music. Reminds me of good times and youth. Thanks for resurrecting the feeling.

@susanberry3130

They are all gone now. Rest in peace,, guys! You put some great music out there!!!!

@riturajkalita4949

I'm so unlucky that I couldn't live at that time and enjoy this song in it's time.
Looks like underrated now
Thanks James Gunn to reuse this and make us know about it.

@jaymcd8577

Gorgeous chord progressions, tragically happy.. so nostalgic.

@robinette222

Back in the 70s I worked with Skip Haynes' mom in Chicago. She was a riot. We'd always have the radio on and when this song came on and the violin part started playing I'd always say, "Great fiddle playing!". His mom, Dana, would pretend to be indignantly irritated and shot back at me..."That's not a fiddle! It's a violin player from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! Then we'd all laugh. I LOVE this song and the feelings it still evokes. And I love Chicago.

@vladthelad4054

I listened to 70s playlists for countless hours just to come across this song

@MarkAlbert

Wonderful memories from my year as an exchange student at UIUC in 1985/86. This exact version was playing on the radio often and I loved it! So glad to re-discover it here now! Thanks so much for posting and sharing!

@robinnortherngirl7868

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this song! Always have since first hearing it in the 70s and I still need to hear it now and then. I'm Chicago born and raised but now I live in Minnesota, which is beautiful in its own right, but there's nothing like having the car windows open in the summertime, sun shining, and driving north on Lake Shore Drive. <3

@njjj2688

That smile at the end is everything.

@perseusjackson9696

Star-lord's mom taste of music is good.

@alllosers69

Perseus Jackson Riiiiiiiight

@SuperWillHatch

There needs to be a movie just about Meredith Quill raising young Peter.

@skinnymetalhead2011

Will you fuck off with GOTG shit?

@DrCrackTV

You do realize these movies help make those classics known to younger generations? It's awesome if you ask me.

@shersyed3989

No guys. I hate to say it but beo wulf is right here, though granted his ideals aren't right, but the younger gen. talking about a movie that merely used a bit of the song, and talking about the movie on the very page of the whole song is indeed a little disgraceful. This song is partially culture... talking about something such as a movie that is not yet equal, not even close to, such culture is disgraceful, and if these comments keep on coming they may push down the important comments such as the comments that talk about times from then or that talk about the place it self is indeed , like said above, disgraceful. The younger gen. should show a little respect to good music like such and try to experience culture.

I myself found the song from the movie but that does not mean i don't care about the place, after listening to the lyrics i kind of even want to experience the place...

Final Message: New Generation should learn to respect cultural things like this... IT MATTERS!!! ... not now maybe, not 5 years from now maybe even, but 10 years down the road this will be essential part of American culture.

@godzillaakagojira8938

Whenever I get mad or frustrated I listen to this

@bruce1002003

The first time I heard this, I had just turned off Hollywood onto LSD. True story. It seems like a million years ago. I was headed back home after a night partying in Edgewater. It was about 2-3 AM on a Saturday night. I was in my '70 Chevy Caprice with a 350 cubic inch engine. We called it The Rocket. LSD was empty in both directions. Before I knew it, I was pushing 95 mph. I never got home faster before or after. This is what I call "travelin' music."

@0176691

💯! You've added a new tie to my memory of this song, growing up in Chicago... my fav teacher at Lane Tech was Mr. Pietka, drafting. Never saw his name anywhere else. 🙂

@bruce1002003

@GG Z That's my older brother! We're both Lane Tech grads too. I'll find a way to pass this along to him.

@barrybrown4018

The anthem for many a chicago boy who grew up in the 70s

@chicagosusieq8548

And us girls!😉

@vickihigh5287

AND GIRL!!

@happydeedee9389

My local morning tv show sent me here. OMG, thank!
Have a great weekend America!

@beborayl44

R.I.P Lakeshore Drive....will always remember you....from the Drake to Soldier Field!

@Imissthepostoffice

This song (a one-hit wonder, really) is a fantastic piece of art. And, boy, did they do it
well ! An awesome group of musicians. To those who've never headed south on Lake Shore Drive late at night, well let me tell you, it's the prettiest road probably in the world.

@djetm

I must say this is pretty sweet.
I hope it reach 30k likes soon.

@psychkosys

Hearing this reminds me of listening to oldies 104.3 heading up lake shore drive in the back seat of the car with my Mom and Dad. Later it meant driving to Stony Island every afternoon to see Mom in the hospital when she got sick, the sun and tears in my eyes.

@shelbycara2637

came here from Davids vlogs. this song SLAPS

@samrad6508

same!

@brenready2277

This song has special memories for me, a time in my life that was carefree but grounded ...it was awesome ...RIP G. O. Some of the best times of my life!!! ♥️✌️

@marilyto

i want this song in my funeral! that's how much i love it!

@recklessinsomniac9931

R.I.P. Mitch Aliotta, lifelong friend if my father and one of my favorite bassists ever. The music community has lost one of its best.

@keralius

I like how you were able to make this be about you

@terraheinrichs6987

I met Mr. Aliotta a few months ago, he is very much alive! Very influential to the music i heard growing up. I love this band, reminds me of my dad

@EazyModeKamikaze

@Terra Goldenberg sometimes youtube comments are pure gold. You're one of em Terra. Thank you x)

@jacobthomas8882

Love the Venum symbol btw

@stevespag9144

They have such an incredible sound. I'm sad that I just discovered this great band a few years ago and realized that both members are no longer with us. Such a shame because this is real music.

@mrchristopherization

I’ve lived on north Hollywood for 40 years. This song never gets old

@elixirax4241

cool man.

@Tick314

I was lucky enough to meet Mitch Aliotta through the lead singer of a band I roadied for in the early 80's. Great guy, great band. I miss Chicago a lot.....

@shinyoneincarnate5565

I was on a date in my 924 Porsche, (November 1977, the first 100 had checkered seats). We were on Lake Shore Drive when she said, "How fast will this thing go?" So pedal to the metal & that little 4 cylinder took off & maxed out at, (just like the owner's manual said it would), at 126 mph. This song came on the radio. A perfect night.