There’s so little to say about this music video that I’m surprised they even bothered. The only noteworthy thing I can see is the beginning where we have somebody–possibly Dave Holland–drumming sans drums. Other than that, I believe that with Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen, it is the only one I have done so far that is partially made up of a live performance rather than being lip-synced (according to mvdbase). It feels like they needed a promotional video for the song, so they took a filmed live version they had, and spliced it together with some footage they shot at another time. So, exactly how we got Dancing in the Dark, except I have a feeling it wasn’t planned in this case. But I could be wrong. According to Wikipedia, it was filmed at Sheffield City Hall.

It is the second music video directed by Julien Temple that I have spotlighted. He has worked in both music videos and other types of films. His music video output was quite large from the beginning of the 1980s till the mid-1990s. Then he seemed to drop off the face of the Earth in music videos except for one here and there. He did a bunch of music videos with the group ABC, so it’s no surprise that they brought him back this year for the music video of their comeback song Viva Love. Unfortunately, it has been blocked on YouTube in certain countries (including the United States).

Enjoy this quite unremarkable video for a fun Judas Priest party song.