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"Window in the Skies" - Patti in new U2 video
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- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:40:40 -0800
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21.12.2006
A Window on Rock'n'Roll
http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2080
The video for Window in the Skies, the new single released on January
1st, can safely be described as 'legendary'.
A work of brilliant editing, the video stars a dazzling cast of
rock'n'roll icons from Elvis Presley to Marvin Gaye, Patti Smith to
Frank Sinatra... and dozens of others.
And everyone is on on lead vocals.
As for U2 themselves you'll be hard pressed to spot them. (But you
just might).
Watch it here:
........
It's only rock'n'roll but Batman's folk don't like what they won't see
Email Print Normal font Large font Daniel Ziffer
December 29, 2006
http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/its-only-rocknroll-but-batmans-folk-dont-like-what-they-wontsee/2006/12/28/1166895421408.html
ROCK band U2's new Melbourne-made film clip stars Elvis Presley, Kurt
Cobain and Jay-Z, but John Batman's village is barely seen.
Filmed last month in Richmond laneways and the suburb's Corner Hotel,
the clip for Window in the Skies is a whirl of editing that splices
archival footage of Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Patti Smith, Roy
Orbison, Nat King Cole, Kanye West and Marvin Gaye, among others, so
it appears that they are singing the song. For location manager Ben
Lowe, the fact that little of the local footage made the final edit
was to be expected. "We're actually just getting a few little bits and
pieces," he said yesterday. "It's the bane of my life, doing big
set-ups and getting seconds (of footage)," he joked.
But the 300 extras and five models hired for the shoot should not feel
put out the band is hardly seen either. When The Age visited the
shoot, a mob of punters was jogging past the camera, used for just
over a second, while most local footage is of a crowd waving arms
inside the hotel.
The arms, raised as though watching a band onstage, hide the four
members of U2 lead singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam
Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen jnr.
Over two nights in November, the band played to 127,275 people at
Telstra Dome. Before their second concert, they did a shoot for an
IMAX film in a stadium function room; the clip in Richmond was filmed
the next day for the new track on their latest album, U218 Singles.