Tuesday 16 June 2009

DEREK JARMAN'S LOST SMITHS VIDEO

It's common knowledge that director Derek Jarman was commissioned to make promos for the generally video-phobic Smiths. The shorts he made for 'Panic', 'Ask' and 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' have been widely circulated, but I wasn't aware of this fourth film, for 'I Won't Share You.'

It's got a very similar style to the others, with blurry figures looming in and out of range, petals falling in strobe light and so on, but given the vastly underrated nature of the song (the last track on the last Smiths LP 'Strangeways Here We Come') I thought it deserved dusting off.

The Smiths: I Won't Share You

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