b'Bands Look BackHe also said that the huge lights they used at night drewCuts Like a Knife:snakes out of the desert and onto the set. Do you recall that?No! Thats so cool, I wish Id known about that, but they probably didnt tell me because they wanted me to keep working.Keith RichardsThat might have freaked me out. Thats what Im guessing. Theres sometimes this music video conceit that your video can look cool and not make sense, and thats fine. Its as if the position is were MTV, were cool and we know whats going on, even though you dont.Yeah! I think thats great. I like it. Thats how most videos are now. Theres kind of a feeling, and in a way, thats how I see Take My Breath Away. To this day, whenever Ill see the songs lyricist, Tom Whitlock, its become a running joke. Ill say, So, what do those lyrics mean? and hell say, Fuck if I know! (laugh) He wrote the lyrics, and he doesnt know what its about! Its a bunch ofUndercover of the Night/SheMick going down this corridor singing a sentences put together that create a feeling. Everybody gets it, butWas Hot (1984) verse of the song and these geisha girls Take My Breath Away I cant explain it. To this day, when Im singing, I dont know. I justJulien Temple, director: Mydancing behind him. So now its about two Does it take you back to that place when you sing it now? know that I feel something, I know what Im feeling, and I project it.producer and I met them [Thein the morning. And its like, Uh, Keith No, because so much has happened over the years. ItSo the thing youre talking about still happens. Lets have a videoRolling Stones] for the firstwants to see you. Oh, shit. No one goes became the biggest song of our career. That song has beenwith girls dancing in water, and theyll get in a fight, and it will betime in Paris at a posh hotel,in there. I just opened the door, and Im sung from many different positions, from loss, pain, gratitude,really sexy and cool. We dont know why they are there or whatsand Keith Richards asked us tosort of pushed into the trailer and theres fulfillment, from everything. going to happen, but its cool and its just there. In those days, Icome downstairs with him toKeith in there. He grabs me by the throat When it came time to shoot this video with Marcelothought it should be clearer, but I was wrong. It doesnt have to bethe gentlemens toilet. So weagainst the wall, choking me like, I told Anciano, you shot in that airplane graveyard. He remembersthat at all.did, and suddenly he pulled ayou! And Im like, Oh, okay! Sorry, thats that the wind was uncontrollable. I get the impression thatsword out of a walking sticka bit of a mistake! Sorry about that! I tell because of Top Gun and the video takes place in an airplanehed been carrying he hadyou what, why dont you come out and graveyard that maybe the band are supposed to be ghosts. Hethis stick he pulled apart anddo this bit where Micks going to come recalled that the band was so young too. suddenly he had this swordout, youre in here playing guitar, and Yes, we were so fucking young. I do remember the wind and he said, Im not in thishell come round and sing next to you for because there is one shot where my hair is whipping around. video enough. Youve gota bit. He was so angry. [When we start Im not sure if he got the idea from the wind or what, but heto rewrite it. No one hadshooting again] Mick comes out and sings, told me that he wanted to shoot it in slow motion, whichrelayed that to us before, andand Keith ends up swinging the guitar made it work. Were shooting and I cant even seesuddenly he had a swordstickat Micks head. Mick manages to duck anything, the winds blowing so hard that it looks likeat our throats. So I went away,the guitar perfectly and then carries on. that ad where the guys in the chair and the speakerTERRIS and created that role forOne take, and I was like, Oh, that was him where he was the capofabulous. It was kind of organized to get is blowing his hair back? Thats how I was duringActingof the death squad in leaguesome sort of thing happening between that shoot. He sped up the music and I sang to the sped up music, so hed slow it down in the edit. ThatMEMORIES with some corrupt army. Wethe two of them. Later on, Keith came saw really worked. had him riding in tanks andthe video and said, Oh thats so fantastic, Any moments you recall from the set of the video?things, really beefed it up a bit.and Im really sorry, and then he hugged That was a different shoot. The guys [in Berlin] wereI found that the more Keithme, and we all kissed and made up.not into it, especially John who was my partner in Berlin forStar Wars audition with Harrison Ford (seen above) Richards, the better. Up to 13 years. He was not into it at all. He didnt want to do theIt blew my mind, clearly, because I had not seen it. Watching itthat time, there hadnt beenRock and a Hard Place (1989)song. He didnt want to be a part of it. To him, it was a song thatis hilarious. I look twelve. Harrison Ford looks like hes fifteen.enoughI think the swordWayne Isham, director: So then [Keith came from somebody else and a sound that was somebodyAnd hes exactly like I remember him, totally not into it, armsstick was more in jest, sort of aand I] got into a discussion [in the else [the song was written by Giorgio Moroder], and he justcrossed, whatever, saying these lines and Im trying to be soflamboyant move. hotel bar] about what we were going didnt like it. They were there [on set], but we were kind ofinto it. He was so grouchy when we did that. I mean, he wasto shoot. Mick wanted one thing, he separate, as we had become over the last couple of years. Wea young actor then too, and I found out later from GeorgeOne Hit to the Body (1985) wanted something different. It was all were not understanding each other, not agreeing on what theLucas something thats now common knowledge, the factStonesRussell Mulcahy, director:a misunderstanding, and were sitting band should be and what direction we should go, and we werethat Harrison was working on his kitchen, doing cabinets, andI go over to some hotel inthere, just blabbing. And he says, Do you London at three or four in theknow who I am? I dont give a fuck. This is drifting apart. That video, I just remember, was when John andGeorge asked him to help do the audition readings. Music Videoafternoon and Keith camewhat were going to be shooting. Thats Rob were off to themselves, doing their guy thing, and I wasout having just showered orwhen he decided to pull the knife out, and doing what I needed to do. And you know, when we shot it,Thank God Its Fridaythere was a lot that wasnt used because they cut so much ofIt was a terrible film, but I was so excited because it was myDirectorssomething. We had a chat andhe goes, In a dark night, late at night and the movie into the video. [The theme and story of the originalfirst movie of any kind. M Much of my stuff was shot outside,he said, Okay, now whateverhes leering, and you can imagine what you do with the video, I dont want anyhes like three inches from your face, video concept] was much clearer from what we shot. Theand it takes place over an evening. Mainly, we were shootingRecall Whenfucking dancers in this, all right? I went,pulling a knife, acting like he was going to director put together this great cut that showed the concept,at night because its a disco film. Wed be shooting startingOkay.Okay.No, no, no, no dancers. cut my throat! It was hilarious. that made it much more clear that we were ghosts, that I wasat six oclock at night and finish somewhere around six in the coming back to this graveyard, and the two guys were justmorning We did that for a week.Keef WasAlright.Got it.Got it. So then when weAnybody Seen My Baby/Almost Hear supposed to be two guys oohing and ahhing over shit in thegot closer to the video there was going to be a scene where Micks walking throughYou Sigh (1997)graveyard, and they see me, and they see this whole thingTime Express with Vincent Price Keen onthese different rooms.And in the finalSamuel Bayer, director (who gave Keith happening. They cant believe it, and I disappear, and Im overGod, Id forgotten about that show. Yeah, it was so exciting toroom is Keith playing guitar. And MickRichards a knife for one scene): Maybe there, and thats the way we envisioned it. Because Paramountmeet Vincent Price! He was so hugely famous, and getting to wanted the movie in it, and rightfully so, they cut out a bunchspend time with him and talk to him was great. Such a nice guy.Making Hissaid to me, Lets make Keith really angry.deep down, I wanted him to cut himself of that, so you couldnt really get what was going on. Im in aSo gay, and I had no idea, right? It just never occurred to meThen I went How? And he says, Well,with it. I asked him to pull the knife out. flight suit, and theres two guys, and who are they, you know? Itbecause nothing like that occurs to you when youre a kid, butPoint lets have a little dance number. Keith isIts a big knife, and he started fucking definitely screwed up the directors vision, which I thought wasthe sweetest, nicest, greatest guy. That show was so out there. in his trailer at this point, so we got thesearound with an apple or something. wonderful, but it didnt play the way he originally wanted. Sincepeople dressed up as geishas, and evenI didnt want him to seriously injure they were paying for it, thats how it went. one of the geisha girls was a guy in drag.himself, but you know, I did have him do And so we do this scene handheld withquite a few takes.24MVTMISSUE #1 ISSUE #1MVTM25'