Music Video
The video was filmed by Phillip Davey who had filmed the video for Slade’s 1984 hit All Join Hands and 1985 single 7 Year Bitch, as well as this video’s successors Little Sheila and Do You Believe in Miracles. This time Davey depicted Slade as gangsters. The opening shots featured Slade walking through a warehouse door. As they entered, their everyday clothes changed to gangsters suits. The band perform the track in the warehouse, where Mr. Jones, complete with a snake tattoo running up his arm and a diamond tooth, is supervising the production of prohibition whiskey. The ominous final sequence of the film shows the band leaving the warehouse and Powell buying some flowers from a street trader who has the words ‘Remember St. Valentine’s day’ written on the wall behind her. This video is Lea’s own personal favourite.
In a 1987 interview based on fan questions, one fan asked where the band got their gangster gear for the music video, guitarist Dave Hill said "We hired it for the occasion. It was all organised by Philip Davey."
In the September-December 1986 Slade fan club magazine, the poll results were announced for the 1986 opinion poll based on Slade’s material. For the best promo/video film, Myzsterious Mizster Jones placed at #2.
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Famous quotes containing the words music and/or video:
“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“These people figured video was the Lord’s preferred means of communicating, the screen itself a kind of perpetually burning bush. “He’s in the de-tails,” Sublett had said once. “You gotta watch for Him close.””
—William Gibson (b. 1948)