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So I recently got the Dead Or Alive video compilation DVD called
Evolution, which is great for all those mid 80s videos... however, you have to get past the recent photos of Pete Burns to get to not only the DVD and its contents, but also the liner notes, or "liner notes" if you can "call" them that. I'll "quote" the "liner notes" for you, ILMers, so you can "grasp" the look and "feel" for Pete Burns's "abstract" form of writing them. "Enjoy"! ":D"
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Here it is..... an official compilation of Dead Or Alive videos. This is Pete Burns, attempting to write some notes, about the videos contained in this package. Some of you, who have bought this, might also have purchased the album "EVOLUTION" and will be familiar with my somewhat "abstract" style of writing liner notes.
Well, I am supposed to come up with "amusing anecdotes" about the making of these videos..... I can't ! In fact I found it agonising to have to watch them all back in order to compile this DVD. It all seems so long ago, and when we were "pushed" in front of film cameras, video was quite a new thing. I thought of them as sort of, "postcards" to various countries, that we might "chart" in; a way of saying "Hi, we are too busy to be there on your TV show, so here's a video instead." Largely I was mistaken, when given a choice all the countries we were too "busy" to go to said "We don't want to show the video...they have to BE HERE!" So, as far as I know, these videos were not exactly omnipresent in TV land. In fact, some of them were hardly shown at all...... After looking back at them (the first time I had to get drunk) on second viewing, I suspect there might have been slightly different reasons for not putting some of these videos on heavy rotation; I am sure some of you will know what I mean without me having to go into detail. What I can say is apart from the Tim Pope video "I'd Do Anything", as time went along I most definitely felt these are not really a good representation of "who" and "what" I am really about.
I was "in mainstream pop land" and too busy and hungry for "hits" to pay attention to "detail". We were having a "cheap laugh" by the time we did the video for "Spin Me" as nobody thought it would be a hit, and the formula seemed to work... for a while. By the time we got to "Something In My House", I felt I wanted to "express" myself on film, as well as record, amuse myself, show my "sense of humour" ...... Well apparently the manner in which I "peeled a banana" seemed to work against me/us! And, it was downhill all the way after that.
It seems to me it was perfectly acceptable for a "female" artist to be a bit "cheeky", but another thing altogether for somebody with my "disabilities" or "dubious sexuality" to even "wink" at camera! Of course by now I was "in on the joke" and if I couldn't be myself what was the point anyway? And, as there were still "budgets" available I did just that.... within reason.... so, by the time we got to "Come Home With Me Baby", I was off and running.... freedom.... and it felt great..... Of course if a video's success is judged by the amount of times it is on TV, by that time I was in commercial Siberia! But I never liked "hot" places anyway.
By this time Steve had taken control of editing the videos so they could convey "MY" vision, not the "directors brief". My brief! and a good job he did of it! By the time we got to "Rebel Rebel" OOOOOh! I was thrilled... a "punky" raw video that matched the vibe of the song!! Of course, nobody in TV land wanted to show it (Rebel Rebel) for some reason best known to themselves, they thought I was "brandishing a knife" and "swinging whisky straight from a bottle" in the end shots...... it was a comb and some mineral water!!!! So time flew by..... I was rarely asked to make a video again. I as a "male" artist became a "commercial liability" until.... "Hit And Run Lover" ..... and even then it was suggested that it "might be better" if we didn't see "the artist's lips". DON'T ASK ME !!!!!!!!
I refuse to give it any more thought it's just not a "logical" job I am in, and if I let that sorry excuse/suggestion get to me, we might never have made the video for "Spin Me 2003". Believe me, that was not an easy thing to convince anybody to do! But as it stands today, so far, that video still meets resistance in TV land, but I am happy with it and so are my "hardcore" fans and I feel privileged to still be able every once in a while to make these videos/records. It can be fun, it can be a nightmare, but even the tiniest bit of self expression is better than none at all. That's what I always hoped to inspire in people. Self expression, freedom and fun! But sometimes that has been/and is misinterpreted.... Hey!.... that's not my problem!
Songs sing themselves and a picture speaks a thousand words.... I hope you can "tune in" to the humour, see how hard it was to express it and swim in the memories this "sound and vision" package brings back to you. To any "new" recruits.... Hello.... welcome aboard, thanks for looking and I am compelled to tell you, in order to get to the future one simply has to acknowledge the past!
Love 2 u.... Pete Burns
― dali madison's nut (donut), Saturday, 31 December 2005 06:10 (eighteen years ago) link
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