Kiss That Frog was released this week in 1993 as the fourth single from 'US'. The music video was directed by Brett Leonard and won an MTV Video Music Award in 1994 for Best Visual Effects.
Brett Leonard also directed Virtuosity, which featured Peter's track 'Party Man'.
Shock The Monkey was released #onthisday in 1982 as the first single from Peter's fourth album, performed at Sanremo Music Festival in 1983.
"Most people saw that as a sort of animal rights song, but it wasn’t actually, it was a song about jealousy." - pg
Directed by the legendary David Mallet, today's Total Pop Friday selection is the video to accompany the first single from Erasure's chart-topping 1991 album, 'Chorus'. To ease you into the weekend, this is that album's title track, 'Chorus'... ❤️
#erasure#totalpopfriday
The Miraculous Love Kids performing 'Red Rain'. Recorded in Kabul and Islamabad before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in early 2021.
The Miraculous Love Kids is a non-profit organisation whose aim is to teach the guitar to war-torn, poverty-stricken children, in particular young girls who have little to no rights and are often forced into marriage and face the most extreme forms of violence.
Currently they are raising funds to keep a group of girls and their families, facing deportation, safe in Pakistan and to get them visas. This will keep them out of harms way until they can find asylum in a welcoming country.
You can support their efforts at: https://t.co/eAcWp3judk
Watch the video in full:
https://t.co/bdMuP9aitk
‘More Than This’ came right at the end [of the UP album recording] and I’d started a thing with guitar samples. I was mucking around with guitars and Daniel Lanois left his beautiful Telecaster here. I can’t play guitar to save my life but I can make noises on it. I’d always liked it and in fact it was actually driving through the Italian Alps, again it is one of these scenic detours, and I found this old cassette which had this stuff on it where I’d been playing around with a different groove and that started all to make sense to me at that point. - pg
More Than This was released as a single on 30 December 2002. Performance filmed in the Big Room at Real World Studios earlier that same year.