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HEART OF THE SUN
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VIDEOGRAPHY

Lean On Me [promotional video]

See also the song and the single.

Credits

Directed by Vaughan Arnell and Anthea Benton (Vaughan & Anthea)

Trivia

- One of extremely few music videos to have sign language for the benefit of the hearing-impaired.

- Lean On Me was the first music video directed by prolific video-directing team Vaughan & Anthea.  It was the start of a productive working relationship, as the pair would go on to direct several Red Box videos, the others being Heart Of The Sun and Train.

Summary

Music-video antics on a set with a park bench and tall hedge backdrop.  In addition to singing, Simon and Julian act out some of the lyrics as well--for example, the "ten men they get up" are represented by finger puppets [see screen shot below].  A carousel appears and disappears, and crowds of people teleport in to join the merry frolicking.  Throughout the video, various text (sometimes the lyrics, sometimes other languages) appears vertically on the right side of the screen.  A sign-language interpreter appears throughout.

Discography Information

[three minutes, thirty-seven seconds]

Screen Captures

"Ten men they get up..." as performed by finger puppets!  Whoo!

Simon can't bear to watch...

Simon with cute Asian kids.

Woah, those don't look like regulation semaphore flags to me.  Never make colour guard that way.

Is there any better way to represent all the diverse nations and peoples of the world than a painted board with holes in it?  Umm... don't answer that.

Simon contemplates playing some whack-a-mole with the above-mentioned board.

The Official Playground Carousel Of Red Box^tm.