b'Bands Look BackHe also said that the huge lights they used at night drew Cuts 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 theposition 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 of Undercover of the Night/SheMick going down this corridor singing a sentences put together that create a feeling. Everybody gets it, but Was 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 just Julien 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. It So 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 been with 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 whats and 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 remembers that 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. He this 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 see suddenly 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 speaker TERRIS 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 duringActing of 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 for Star 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 it that 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, arms stick was more in jest, sort of aand I] got into a discussion [in the else [the song was written by Giorgio Moroder], and he just crossed, whatever, saying these lines and Im trying to be so flamboyant 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 was to shoot. Mick wanted one thing, he separate, as we had become over the last couple of years. We a young actor then too, and I found out later from George One Hit to the Body (1985) wanted something different. It was all were not understanding each other, not agreeing on what the Lucas something thats now common knowledge, the factRollingRussell 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 drifting apart. That video, I just remember, was when John and George asked him to help do the audition readings. StonesLondon at three or four in theknow who I am? I dont give a fuck. This is Rob were off to themselves, doing their guy thing, and I was afternoon and Keith camewhat were going to be shooting. Thats doing what I needed to do. And you know, when we shot it,Thank God Its Friday Musicout having just showered orwhen he decided to pull the knife out, and there was a lot that wasnt used because they cut so much ofIt was a terrible film, but I was so excited because it was mysomething. 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 original first movie of any kind. M Much of my stuff was shot outside,Videohe said, Okay, now whateverhes leering, and you can imagine what video concept] was much clearer from what we shot. Theand it takes place over an evening. Mainly, we were shootingyou do with the video, I dont want anyhes like three inches from your face, director put together this great cut that showed the concept,at night because its a disco film. Wed be shooting startingDirectorsfucking dancers in this, all right? I went,pulling a knife, acting like he was going to that made it much more clear that we were ghosts, that I wasat six oclock at night and finish somewhere around six in theOkay.Okay.No, no, no, no dancers. cut my throat! It was hilarious. coming back to this graveyard, and the two guys were justmorning We did that for a week.RecallAlright.Got it.Got it. So then when we supposed to be two guys oohing and ahhing over shit in thegot closer to the video there was going toAnybody Seen My Baby/Almost Hear graveyard, and they see me, and they see this whole thingTime Express with Vincent Price Whenbe a scene where Micks walking throughYou Sigh (1997)happening. They cant believe it, and I disappear, and Im over God, Id forgotten about that show. Yeah, it was so exciting to these different rooms.And in the finalSamuel Bayer, director (who gave Keith there, and thats the way we envisioned it. Because Paramountmeet Vincent Price! He was so hugely famous, and getting toKeef Wasroom is Keith playing guitar. And MickRichards a knife for one scene): Maybe 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.said 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 meKeen onThen 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, but 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. Makingin his trailer at this point, so we got thesearound with an apple or something. wonderful, but it didnt play the way he originally wanted. Since people dressed up as geishas, and evenI didnt want him to seriously injure they were paying for it, thats how it went. His Point 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 #1ISSUE #1MVTM25'