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:
“If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator—the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)
“I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)