Cream, Disraeli Gears, Film Clips, Breasts

Cafe Society
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I was watching the “Classic Albums” show tonight on the making of Disraeli Gears. For many of the songs, they were able to show film clips of a fairly unsophisticated sort. Most just the band hanging around or acting the fool, but some designed to illustrate the relevant song to some degree at least.

1/ I thought that film clips were something that came later. Were film clips to accompany pop songs a common thing in 1967?

2/ Two of the clips showed naked breasts. I would have thought that this would would have made them unplayable on TV in the US or UK at that time, which would kind of defeat the point if they were for marketing the songs.

What’s the dope?

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Yes, non-performance music videos already existed in the '60s, but that clip of the topless, body-painted woman wasn’t one of them. That seems to be a bit of stock footage that gets trotted out whenever they want to illustrate London in the swinging '60s. I think the same clip is seen in the Yardbirds and Blind Faith DVDs.