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Raspberry Beret is a Prince and the Revolution video released for broadcast and to promote the single.
Shooting took place on 5 June 1985 at S.I.R. in Los Angeles, California, the day after recording a video for 4 The Tears In Your Eyes. Wardrobe wise, Prince and The Revolution wear the same outfit as the characters on the Around The World In A Day album cover. Interestingly, the character in the blue suit with clouds on the album cover does not represent Prince in the original project. The idea was to make a mirror suit that reflected the sky. The character with blond hair is actually illustrator Doug Henders who posed with a guitar to serve as a model. Although Prince reportedly had some blond hair towards the end of the Purple Rain Tour, that was just a coincidence. The video for Raspberry Beret was shot six weeks after the album’s release and recreates the cover, not the other way around. Prince initially wanted the promotion for Around The World In A Day to be minimal, before changing his mind. All the sets and costumes, including the one with clouds that Prince wears, were therefore created from Doug Henders’ illustration (and after Prince’s instructions) and not the other way around.
Producer Simon Fields revealed that they filmed a whole video, "then Prince got a Japanese animator to do a completely different video and we mashed the two up".
Of note, the version of the song is an edit of the Extended Remix (also called New Mix).
The video was included on The Hits Collection in 1993.
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