Stormbringer was song that David Coverdale originally performed as the lead singer of Deep Purple. In 2015, it was one of the many Deep Purple songs that Coverdale covered with Whitesnake, which explains why the video has a purplish hue.
The video was directed by Tyler Bourns, who is also credited as being a camera operator for the 2014 video for Newsted’s As the Crow Flies.
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This video, for what is arguably Pantera’s best-known song, was filmed at shows in Chicago and Minneapolis. Phil Anselmo has said that the song was a message to everyone who claimed that Pantera had allowed this success to go to their heads. The song was their way of saying, “Take a walk with your attitude.”
Director Paul Andreson has also worked with Insane Clown Posse, Metallica, Urge Overkill, Collective Soul, and Meredith Brooks.
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Fear of the Dark, a song about a man who is scared of the dark, was based on the a very real fear that is held by Iron Maiden founder/bassist/songwriter Steve Harris. The song served as the title track for Iron Maiden’s ninth studio album and it’s gone on to become one of the band’s best known songs.
The video was directed by Samuel Bayer, who was another one of those music video directors who worked with everyone and who made a huge cultural impact even if most of the people who enjoyed his work never learned his name. Among the other videos that Bayer directed: Garbage’s Only Happy When It Rains, Melissa Etheridge’s Come To My Window, LL Cool J’s Father, and Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.
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Can’t Turn Back The Years is found on Phil Collins’s fifth solo studio album, Both Sides. Like much of Collins’s output, Both Sides received lukewarm reviews when it was initially released but it has since been reevaluated.
The music video was directed by Jim Yukich, who is one of those directors who seems to have directed a video for everyone. If you have ever had a hit song or top-selling album, Jim Yukich probably directed a music video for you. He directed a lot of videos for both Genesis and Phil Collins as a solo act. But Yukich also directed videos for everyone from Iron Maiden to David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Huey Lewis, David Hasselhoff, and Debbie Gibson.
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Gloria was the second single to be released off of U2’s second album, October. It was one of their lowest-charting early singles but the music video for the song was also the first U2 music video to receive heavy airplay on MTV. Given U2’s later reputation, its interesting to see how straight-forward and unpretentious their early videos could be.
This video was filmed in October 1981 on a barge in Grand Canal Dock in Dublin near Windmill Lane. Director Meiert Avis has worked with just about everyone. If your band was popular, Meiert Avis probably directed at least one video for you.
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In today’s music video of the day, Metallica takes on the blind faith that people have in their religious beliefs. James Hetfield has said that he got the idea from watching Magic, a movie about a ventriloquist (played by Anthony Hopkins) who believes that his puppet is alive. Both Jason Newsted and Lars Ulrich have stated that this song was their favorite from their self-titled, fifth studio album.
The music video was filmed in San Diego in January of 1992. It was directed by frequent Metallica collaborator, Wayne Isham.
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This is one of Billy Joel’s best-known songs. For people who grew up at the right time, it will always be remembered as the theme song from Bosom Buddies. (Unfortunately, due to licensing issues, the song does not appear on the show’s DVD release and it has recently been removed by syndicated airings. All ten of Bosom Buddies‘s fans were very disappointed.) In the background of this song, you can hear Chicago’s Peter Cetera and Donnie Dacus contributing backing vocals.
This video was directed by Steve Cohen, who directed several videos for Billy Joel in the late 70s and the early 80s.
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The video for this Tony Banks-penned song was shot during a soundcheck at the Knebworth Festival on June 24th, 1978. The audio was a replay of the studio version of the song, with the band miming the performance. Despite having a music video, Many Too Many only made it the 43rd position on the UK charts and it is one of the few Genesis songs that has never been performed in concert.
Along with his work with Genesis, director Ken O’Neill also did videos for The Smiths and Elton John.
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Rick Springfield’s performance in this video confirms that he was excited and he wanted to make sure that everyone knew it. This is the type of video that was very popular in the early days of MTV, where the emphasis was on both the musicianship on the band and the number of people willing to pay money to see them perform. Watch the audience get excited as Rick points at his drummer.
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Rest in peace, Blackie Onassis. Onassis joined Urge Overkill as their drummer in 1991 and he played with the band until their first break-up in 1997. He was the drummer who played on their cover version of Neil Diamond’s Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon. The song became a hit for the band when it was featured in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and, even today, hearing it brings to mind memories of Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace.
Though Onassis would collaborate with Urge Overkill’s Nash Kato on the latter’s 2000 solo album, Onassis was not a part of the band when it reformed in 2004. Instead, Onassis largely stayed out of the public eye, with the band announcing his death yesterday.
The video for Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon mixes clips from Pulp Fiction with clips of the band performing the song at the type of establishment that would probably be frequented by Tarantino’s characters. In a 1992 interview with Spin Magazine, Onassis said that the mission of Urge Overkill was to “resurrect the era of the swinger” and that describes the feel of this video.
Director Drew Carolan also directed the video for Living Color’s Cult of Personality and The Mighty Might Bosstones’s Don’t Know How to Party.
RIP, Blackie Onassis.
Through the Shattered Lens 