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:
“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
—Harper Lee (b. 1926)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)