The Original Artist Promo Video, shot on location in London, New York and Paris, it was shot between 1986 and 1990. It took twenty-one days of shooting and a three hundred hour edit and cost over £100,000 to make (and that was back then). Despite this, the video is only 11 intense, action packed minutes long, with a further 4 mins credit sequence (including pictures and titles). Think of it as like 4 rock videos all strung together. This video makes a good catalogue of the work up to 1989 - about 35 images are featured including most of the classics. It contains footage from inside Elliott's various homes and studios (not that you would know as there is never a piece of equipment in sight).



It also contains amazing music by kind permission of Jean Michel Jarre and there is incredible footage of "Baywatch Babe" Natalie Jay (formerly Banus) shot by Elliott himself when she was only 18. As many have commented, no-one ever shot her better.

One thing you can say about this video, when it comes on the room goes quiet, such is its power. It is set to four tracks of Jean Michel's marvelous music and is partly autobiographical.

As Elliott commented rather enigmatically at the time "Why let an idea get in the way of creativity". During production it basically went off the rails and Elliott threw away the script and even left all the words out! The result is timeless. The words, by the way, all went to make up Generation Of A New Voice.



The video has a climactic sense of mounting excitement and builds pace brilliantly. There is classic footage of Elliott's 1989 entrance to the "Light Years" London show in the pink Cadillac full of red balloons with the Monroesque Liz Caron. Haunting footage of Elliott wandering the Gothic Graveyard in his original hometown from which he wrought such haunting images.

Footage of Elliott in the Lotus Esprit Turbo, then in Paris at night and suddenly appearing against the New York skyline - it is all here - but amazingly Elliott almost takes a back seat to the images and the girls. To sum up, it is the unmistakable blend of glamour, excitement and passion which has made Elliott world class. This was the first promo video ever created by an artist.