Video: 4 The Tears In Your Eyes

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1985: Raspberry Beret ◄

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► 1985: Paisley Park

4 The Tears In Your Eyes

Music Video details

First aired:	13 July 1985
Producer(s):	Information needed
Director:	Information needed
Related home video/DVD:
First (Commercially) Released:	27 July 2017

Awards
Date	Institution, Country	Award
This music video has not received any awards in the USA

4 The Tears In Your Eyes is a Prince and the Revolution video released for broadcast. It is the first Prince video shot in black and white.

The performance video, filmed on 4 June 1985 at SIR in Los Angeles, California, was shown during the worldwide live broadcast Live Aid on 13 July 1985, in lieu of Prince performing at the Philadelphia or London concerts which made up the bulk of the broadcast.

After Baby I’m A Star, it is the second video which was not created to promote a single. The (different) studio version was included on the compilation album We Are The World. The audio of this performance video was later released on The Hits / The B-Sides, as one of two previously-unreleased tracks on the B-Sides disc (and later on the 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Around The World In A Day).

Of note, this is the first appearance of the Taylor 12-strings purple acoustic guitar in a video, a guitar specially made by Taylor for Prince. This guitar is used by Wendy Melvoin in the Raspberry Beret video that was shot the next day. It is also the first video since I Wanna Be Your Lover which does not feature his full band as the song is performed with Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman only.

Shooting Information

Shooting Sessions
Date	Location	Additional info
4 June 1985	SIR, Los Angeles, CA, USA	Live performance in studio
Cast
Prince Wendy Melvoin Lisa Coleman
Crew
More information needed

Versions

Released Versions

Title	Length	Released	Version	Additional info
4 The Tears In Your Eyes	3:25	Prince streaming video platforms (2017) Released for sale as separate track on iTunes (2017)

Additional Information

	See Also	Quotation & triva

	4 The Tears In Your Eyes	The videos for The Screams Of Passion, 4 The Tears In Your Eyes and Raspberry Beret were all filmed between 3 June and 5 June 1985 at the SIR studios in Los Angeles, California.

	References
	The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) Prince and the Parade/Sign O’ The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986, Duane Tudahl (2021)