Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, just now
I recorded and uploaded this song last month. Since then, I have spent the majority of my time studying Bjorgvin Benediktsson's Step By Step Mixing, so I decided to re-upload the mix with a greater attention to dynamics and EQ, and an improved acoustic guitar track.
I shot the video for this one over a month long period, so I started out without a beard and finished with one! The videos were all shot in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada, a small town of the shores of Lake Erie.
A Greg Lake song, this tune had been around since his King Crimson days (when Fripp decided to nix it from their album). I decided to record it because of the beautiful guitar intro and the haunting sythn outro. Lake wrote the guitar intro after listening to Roundabout by Yes ... and yes, those are the exact same harmonic notes used. What I didn't realize when I started, was just how much fun the bass was!
If any musicians are interested in playing along to this one, let me know and I'll do a mix without guitar, bass and/or vocals.
Do you want to play acoustic guitar to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/qrpnuckhqwU
Do you want to play acoustic guitar and sing to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/LLfUy3pc1QE
Do you want to play keyboards to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/IJG9YjioynI
Do you want to play drums to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/FAsQTAr9q60
Do you want to sing along to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/UYZii6NZUjc
Do you want to play electric guitar to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/64hOVJ-I0yI
Do you want to play bass guitar to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/DH2nkywxqi8
I recorded and uploaded this song last month. Since then, I have spent the majority of my time studying Bjorgvin Benediktsson's Step By Step Mixing, so I decided to re-upload the mix with a greater attention to dynamics and EQ, and an improved acoustic guitar track.
I shot the video for this one over a month long period, so I started out without a beard and finished with one! The videos were all shot in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada, a small town of the shores of Lake Erie.
A Greg Lake song, this tune had been around since his King Crimson days (when Fripp decided to nix it from their album). I decided to record it because of the beautiful guitar intro and the haunting sythn outro. Lake wrote the guitar intro after listening to Roundabout by Yes ... and yes, those are the exact same harmonic notes used. What I didn't realize when I started, was just how much fun the bass was!
If any musicians are interested in playing along to this one, let me know and I'll do a mix without guitar, bass and/or vocals.
Do you want to play acoustic guitar to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/qrpnuckhqwU
Do you want to play acoustic guitar and sing to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/LLfUy3pc1QE
Do you want to play keyboards to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/IJG9YjioynI
Do you want to play drums to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/FAsQTAr9q60
Do you want to sing along to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/UYZii6NZUjc
Do you want to play electric guitar to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/64hOVJ-I0yI
Do you want to play bass guitar to this one? Click here ... youtu.be/DH2nkywxqi8
![The Air that I Creep (The Air That I Breathe + Creep) - The Hollies + Radiohead + Simply Red (video)
The vocals are The Hollies.
The music is Radiohead
The video is Simply Red.
The mashup is The Lone Piper.
The Air That I Breathe was written in 1972 by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. It was first recorded by Hammond on his solo album It Never Rains In Southern California. The song achieved international recognition two years later when it was recorded by The Hollies, and went to become a top ten hit in many countries, reaching number two in the UK.
Before 1998, the song was covered by Phil Everly, Cilla Black, Springbok, Botticelli and His Orchestra, Olivia Newton-John, José Feliciano, The Arbors, Tracy, Champagne [NL] , Mary Travers, Triban, Trevor Chance, Marty Robbins,Hank Williams Jr., Lee Towers, Dana Gillespie, ulio Iglesias with the Beach Boys,Rex Allen Jr., Hammond and West, Paul Nicholas, Peter Hofmann, Alien, Judy Collins, The Twinkle Brothers, Tuesday Girls, Steve Wynn, Spiders & Snakes, Barry Manilow, Feline, Steven Houghton and k.d. lang.
In 1998, British soul and pop band Simply Red also covered the song on their sixth album, Blue. A music video, directed by Earle Sebastian, was also produced to promote the single.
Radiohead wrote the song Creep in the late 1980s and recorded it in 1992, releasing it as their debut single, which was a top ten hit in the UK and top 40 in the US. Hammond and Hazlewood noticed the similarity between Creep and The Air That I Breathe and contacted Radioheads publisher Warner/Chappell Music. Radiohead agreed that they had actually taken it, so Hammond and Hazlewood were granted songwriting credits and royalties for Creep.
In 2018, Thom Yorke of Radiohead sued Lana Del Ray for her song Get Free and its similarities to Creep. The two parties settled for an undisclosed amount. The Air that I Creep (The Air That I Breathe + Creep) - The Hollies + Radiohead + Simply Red (video)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pZ3IO1piYFA/mqdefault.jpg)









