This was one of the earliest music videos, featuring a band that seemed to be destined to take advantage of the format. The song was written a time when Jim Morrison was going through a period of depression. While watching the sunset at Robby Krieger’s house, he suddenly had the realization that “If you’re strange, people are strange.”
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L.A. Guns is a band that has had a long and storied history, from their initial formation in 1983 to the brief moment when they joined with Axl Rose and became known as Guns N’ Roses to Tracii Guns leaving Guns N’ Roses after conflict with Rose and then forming a second version of L.A. Guns. At the same time that Guns N’ Roses were releasing their first music videos and making their mark on MTV, L.A. Guns released their video for One More Reason, one of the most apocalyptic looks at Los Angeles ever put on film.
Director Ralph Ziman also worked with Ozzy Osbourne, Toni Braxton, and Faith No More.
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For today’s music video of the day, we have the second video for Duran Duran’s Lonely In Your Nightmare.
Both videos were directed by Highlander’s Russell Mulcahy.
This is one of two videos for Duran Duran’s Lonely In Your Nightmare. In this one, Simon Le Bon finds old photographs and remembers a past relationship that might have just been someone’s dream. Lonely In Your Nightmare appeared on Rio, one of the defining albums of the early 80s.
Before he made a little film called Highlander, director Russell Mulcahy was Duran Duran’s video director of choice in the early 80s and, of course, he worked with many other bands as well. His stylish music videos dominated MTV and set the template for which most subsequent videos would come.
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This song, which Ozzy has said is actually about a serial killer, was the title track from Osbourne’s 6th solo album. The video was directed by Ralph Ziman, who also did videos for Vanessa Williams, Toni Braxton, Alice Cooper, L.A. Gun, and Faith No More.
The little girl at the end of the video is played by Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter, Kelly.
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Warlock literally stops traffic in today’s music video of the day!
Mark Rezyka also directed videos for KISS, RATT, Spinal Tap, Testament, Nelson, Firehouse, Winger, Vixen, and just about everyone who was anyone in the 80s.
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Mirror People was one of the singles to be released off of Love and Rockets’s third studio album, Earth, Sun, Moon. The video looks like something that Dr. Caligari would have filmed if he had been a music aficionado.
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The Alice Band was not together for long a period of time but they did manage to stick around long enough to record this cover of Don’t Fear The Reaper.
This video was directed by Rob Dickens, the British music industry executive who put the group together. Did this cover need more cowbell? It’s in the ear of the beholder.
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Today’s music video of the day is for an instrumental piece that was composed by Bill Wyman and Terry Taylor for Dario Argento’s 1985 film, Phenomena.
Put together by Michele Soavi, this music video features not only scenes from the film but also clips of Dario Argento directing both Jennifer Connelly and Fiore Argento. Soavi, of course, went on to have a directorial career of his own, directing four classic horror films before stepping away from feature films to take care of his ailing son. Soavi has since returned to directing, though most of his subsequent work has been for Italian television.
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Today is Bela Lugosi’s birthday!
This video was shot at Coachella in 2005.
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Through the Shattered Lens 