This is Mick Jagger’s “Let’s Vote Conservative!” video from 1987.
Wouldn’t it be great, right, if TV’s James Corden made this video with him in an England shirt, running down a road instead of Mick?
The song would be called “Oy Oy England!” and Cordern would interact with all the people as he goes and even perhaps slow down for a “rhythm ‘n’ bantz” section with Crouchy and Becks!
Admit it, the idea is a winner. Just like England will be when they lift the Pantalons D’or trophy in mid-July!
Jaygee says
Is the morbidly obese and embarrassingly unfunny Corden actually capable of running?
Why not just coax former England manager Glenn H out of retirement and team him up with JC in a new incarnation of Hoddle and Waddle?
hedgepig says
Oof. Do we really need to mock people for being fat? Surely enough to just say he’s an annoying person without bringing his weight into it.
Btw, overweight people are often perfectly capable of running.
Jaygee says
I’m quite fat myself and have no problem with people making jokes about the issue or my rather lumbering attempts at running
Black Celebration says
I thought they were “Glenn and Chris” , which was a good joke.
Like the Jasper Carrott joke about a show presented by Tim Curry and Tim Rice that he wanted to call “The Two Tims”.
Sitheref2409 says
Glenn Hoddle has had a heart attack.
The “morbidly obese” James Corden has not.
Gatz says
Corden is doing well in the US these days. Let’s not risk anything which might encourage him back to this side of the Atlantic.
fentonsteve says
Anthrax got there first:
Slug says
At last we discover that it actually wasn’t Bittersweet Symphony after all, but that Jagger video which was surely the true inspiration for Keith Allen’s hit footie song.
Sewer Robot says
1. The young lady in the gingham dress seems to be hearing a special song of her own.
2. The bit with the car was surprisingly dangerous.
3. F**kin’ Roland Rivron: he is to “celeb” cameos what dandelions are to your lawn.
4. I own this record – it’s ace.
Slug says
It’s hard not to enjoy that, isn’t it?
Always surprised by the amount of hate Roland Rivron still gets, considering he’s barely been visible on TV for at least ten years. I don’t even begrudge him his annual 30 seconds on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny.
DrJ says
I am perhaps the only fan of Let’s Work, it’s so enjoyably awful. However the video is a technical marvel and well ahead of its time. It was shot in a prototype HD video and it uses then state-of-the art computerised cameras that move in a repeatable fashion allowing the director to layer whats going on – obviously Jagger isn’t running on a road, it’s green screen, but the computerised camera can film the road and the movements sync up. We take this for granted these days.
It was directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński who used to make the type of experimental films you’d see late night on Channel 4 in the mid-80s. https://youtu.be/3JPZm1vM3gU
Also Jagger’s little wave at 8 seconds – adorable! And the butt wiggle at 37 seconds. Amazing.
fentonsteve says
There’s something of the Talking Heads about Mick’s video, isn’t there?