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|Current video name = America | |Current video name = America | ||
|Video Image = America-vid5in1.png | |Video Image = America-vid5in1.png | ||
− | |Date = November 1985 | + | |Date = Week of 11 November 1985 |
− | |producer(s) = [[ | + | |producer(s) = [[Steve Fargnoli]] |
|Director = [[Prince]] | |Director = [[Prince]] | ||
|Related = | |Related = | ||
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|Previous video link = [[Video: Paisley Park|Paisley Park]] | |Previous video link = [[Video: Paisley Park|Paisley Park]] | ||
|Next Video link = [[Video: Kiss| Kiss]] | |Next Video link = [[Video: Kiss| Kiss]] | ||
− | |Introduction = '''America''' is a [[Prince and the Revolution]] video released for broadcast and to promote the [[Single: America|single]]. It is the fourth live recording used for a [[Prince]] video, but the first live performance video shot at a show staged especially for the project. There | + | |Introduction = '''America''' is a [[Prince and the Revolution]] video released for broadcast and to promote the [[Single: America|single]]. It is the fourth live recording used for a [[Prince]] video, but the first live performance video shot at a show staged especially for the project. There have been no audio-only releases of this performance. |
On a day off of filming [[Film: Under The Cherry Moon|Under The Cherry Moon]] ([[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/October 27|27 October 1985]]), [[Prince]] hired off the Théâtre de Verdure in Nice, France and had it announced on local radio that 2,000 free tickets would be available for the shoot. | On a day off of filming [[Film: Under The Cherry Moon|Under The Cherry Moon]] ([[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/October 27|27 October 1985]]), [[Prince]] hired off the Théâtre de Verdure in Nice, France and had it announced on local radio that 2,000 free tickets would be available for the shoot. | ||
Members of [[The Revolution]], including [[Eric Leeds]] who was a Revolution regular by now, augmented by [[Eddie M.]] from [[Sheila E.]]’s band, were flown in for the shoot. The performance shows [[Prince]] wearing black pants with white buttons down the legs and a long overcoat. On his head he wears a red bandanna. By the end of the video [[Prince]] takes this coat of and is shown to be bare-chested. | Members of [[The Revolution]], including [[Eric Leeds]] who was a Revolution regular by now, augmented by [[Eddie M.]] from [[Sheila E.]]’s band, were flown in for the shoot. The performance shows [[Prince]] wearing black pants with white buttons down the legs and a long overcoat. On his head he wears a red bandanna. By the end of the video [[Prince]] takes this coat of and is shown to be bare-chested. | ||
− | From the outset [[Prince]] is playing the blue floral airbrushed Fender Telecaster guitar. Prince leads the band through the song as he would normally do with a live performance. By the end of the song he takes over the drums from [[Bobby Z.]]. | + | From the outset [[Prince]] is playing the blue floral airbrushed Fender Telecaster guitar. Prince leads the band through the song as he would normally do with a live performance. By the end of the song he takes over the drums from [[Bobby Z.]], playing a beat that's somewhat reminiscnent of [[Tamborine]]. |
The music of the video is that of the actual live performance, rather than overdubbed with a studio recording of the song. The only graphic element of the song is a forerunner of the [[Prince]] symbol, the amalgam of the male and female symbol, projected diagonally reading 'peace' underneath that is projected on screen with Prince cueing 'Peace' for he song to begin. | The music of the video is that of the actual live performance, rather than overdubbed with a studio recording of the song. The only graphic element of the song is a forerunner of the [[Prince]] symbol, the amalgam of the male and female symbol, projected diagonally reading 'peace' underneath that is projected on screen with Prince cueing 'Peace' for he song to begin. | ||
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* [[Eric Leeds]] | * [[Eric Leeds]] | ||
* [[Eddie M.]] | * [[Eddie M.]] | ||
+ | * 200 ''extras'' | ||
* 2,000 ''audience'' | * 2,000 ''audience'' | ||
|crew = * [[Prince]] - director | |crew = * [[Prince]] - director | ||
− | * ' | + | * [[Steve Fargnoli]] - producer |
+ | * Karen Krattinger - road manager | ||
+ | * [[Alan Leeds]] - road manager | ||
+ | * [[Roy Bennett]] - lighting designer | ||
+ | * [[Susan Rogers]] - sound supervisor | ||
+ | * [[Rob Colby]] - sound engineer | ||
+ | * [[Brad Marsh]] - sound engineer | ||
+ | * Steve Fortney - sound engineer | ||
+ | * Daniel Brisseau - sound consultant | ||
+ | * Marc Sanfilippo - sound chief | ||
+ | * Max Haas - sound designer | ||
+ | * Daniel Beaudenuit - sound assistant | ||
+ | * Pascal Harribay - sound assistant | ||
+ | * Gary Stewart - mobile unit | ||
+ | * Barry Sage - mobile unit | ||
+ | * Larry Olden - mobile unit | ||
+ | * Damien Lanfranchi - art director | ||
+ | * Alain Choux - assistant art director | ||
+ | * Bernard Harvey Langton - art department assistant | ||
+ | * Peter Jacovich - art department assistant | ||
+ | * Marie France Bernstein - costume desinger | ||
+ | * Beth Sidla - costume coordinator | ||
+ | * Robin Lynch - make-up | ||
+ | * Michelle Buhler - make-up | ||
+ | * [[Earl Jones]] - hair | ||
+ | * Thierry Zemour - hair | ||
+ | * Ray Bush - editor | ||
+ | * Graham Cottle - production supervisor | ||
+ | * Bernard Mazauric - production supervisor | ||
+ | * Thierry Verrier - unit manager | ||
+ | * Antoine Sabarros - location manager | ||
+ | * Jean Yves Asselin - location manager | ||
+ | * Frederic Bovis - location manager | ||
+ | * Caroline Mazauric - casting coordinator | ||
+ | * Patricia Starke - casting assistant | ||
+ | * Barbara Allen - production coordinator | ||
+ | * Francine Tailor - producer's assistant | ||
+ | * Patricia Reid - production secretary | ||
+ | * Chantal Cohen - accounting | ||
+ | * Mark Allday - floor runner | ||
+ | * [[Gilbert Davison]] - security (as per A. Maqueda) | ||
+ | * Michel Cheyko - assistant director | ||
+ | * Marc Jeny - 2nd assistant director | ||
+ | * Michael Ferry - 2nd assistant director | ||
+ | * Michael Ballhaus - director photography | ||
+ | * Florian Ballhaus - assistant camera 1 | ||
+ | * David Dunlap - operator camera 2 | ||
+ | * Duncan Humphrey - assistant camera 2 | ||
+ | * Jack Steyn - operator camera 3 | ||
+ | * Anette Haellmeck - assistant camera 3 | ||
+ | * David Slama - operator camera 4 | ||
+ | * Reiner Kocher - assistant camera 4 | ||
+ | * Rachel Griffith - script supervisor | ||
+ | * Jeff Katz - stills photographer | ||
+ | * Sebastian Ballhaus - video operator (b/w) | ||
+ | * Clive Lonsdale - video operator (col) | ||
+ | * Morris Flam - gaffer | ||
+ | * Jean Marie Lopez - best boy | ||
+ | * Francois Delot - electrician | ||
+ | * Gerard Adoux - electrician | ||
+ | * Gerard Martin - electrician | ||
+ | * Heinz Sottung - key grip | ||
+ | * Heinz Pusl - grip | ||
+ | * Anton Bratulic - grip | ||
+ | * Jean Louis Di Vietri - grip | ||
+ | * Joanna Campling - publicity | ||
+ | * Nathalie Varallo - secretary | ||
|released versions = | |released versions = | ||
{{SongReleased| | {{SongReleased| |
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