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:
“From where Pan’s cavern is
Intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
Belly, shoulder, bum,
Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
Copulate in the foam.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past—the portrayals of family life on such television programs as “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” and all the rest.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)