Rio - by Duran Duran
sorry
Nobody’s got it yet. It was a pretty obscure band. Likely around 1983-86, but the video could be older.
The video is mostly kind of angsty, it goes between the girl’s crappy home life and how she runs away (I think she leaves a sibling behind, but I could be getting that detail confused with another video) and the band either singing or making their way to the cottage. The only “happy” part is the very end where the girl seems relaxed at the cottage.
I actually checked the Rod Stewart one but nope.
I just scrolled through all 91 pages of “Lyrics containing the word: rebel” and couldn’t find it. Maybe “rebel” isn’t in the song at all, my brain might be misremembering because of the storyline of the video.
I guess this memory will just have to stay tucked away with all those memories from when you’re little and you’re not sure if it’s a real memory or not. I was just hoping that someone else might have a better 80’s music video knowledge than me.
Thanks everyone!
This is a VERY long shot, but could it be “Come on Eileen” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners? It features a poor girl in the streets (along with her friend, who at one point has a baby) being hassled by the band members, but at the end she accepts the advances of the lead singer. Granted, there’s no cottage, but she does join the band on the streetcorner as the video fades.
The Hooters, “Where do the Children Go?”
Can’t find the video anywhere, though.
Nope to both. It was a band of average-looking white guys, IIRC. I used to wonder why the teenage girl wanted to hang out with old dudes, lol.
Total long shot but Warrant’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Has a girl and a cabin…
Nope, too new. The one I’m looking for would be from around 1983.
I’m really starting to think I dreamed this video. 
Well here are the various early 80’s era songs or musicals that have a kind of theme of a woman running away, or leaving behind a sibling (I am seeing a little brother in my head when I try and picture this) or a girl nostalgizing for lost love and seeing the band at the end. Some of these have been mentioned.
Pat Benatar “Love is a Battlefield” has been mentioned of course.
Crowded House “Something So Strong” has the band in a barn but nothing else really.
The movie “American Pop” features ‘Hell is for Children’ and has a musician triumphing at the end. I know that’s not even close, but the same ‘feeling’ is there.
The Motels “Suddenly Last Summer” has that get away and find love kind of thing.
The Moody Blues “Your Wildest Dreams” has an unhappy wife pining for her musician boyfriend from the 60’s and in the end she goes to see them play.
The Kinks “Come Dancing” features a little brother and an older sister. But the older sister is kind of a brat and doesn’t have a bad home life.
Sorry, that’s all I got. I hope someone comes up with it cause it’s bugging me.
Another long shot.
68 Guns by the Alarm?
It’s not a girl, it’s a boy. But he is hanging out happily with the band at the end while they jam. And then leaves after getting paid by the director.
I think you feel asleep watching Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlefield” and woke up watching Tom Petty’s “You Got Lucky.”
I know eh. I bet it was an obscure b-side song.
All I’ve got is:
Video storyline is of a teenage girl running away from home
The band is jamming in a cottage out in the country
The video goes between stuff happening with the girl and the band playing the song
The girl somehow ends up at the cottage with the band
The band is regular looking white guys, the girl is a typical 80’s teenager (dark hair & makeup) wearing either a jean jacket or a leather jacket (I’m thinking jean jacket.)
The last scene of the video is the girl sitting in the cottage with the band listening to them play, the camera pans out and shows the outside of the cottage.
It’s rock 'n roll, but not too heavy.
I would have seen the video between 1983-1986, it’s likely the video itself is older.
The music video shows I watched back then were Friday Night Videos, Toronto Rocks, The Chum FM 30, Video Hits and Flipside. I’m pretty sure this was before MuchMusic.
Was it an Aerosmith video?
No, the band was mellower than Aerosmith.
Aerosmith still did ballads like Cryin and Crazy though.
How about REM?
Can you recall if this was indeed a “hit” or just an obscure song?
The way the video as described sounds like some kind of middlebrow concept video by a guy like Bryan Adams (Summer of 69’ doesn’t really fit btw). I don’t think REM does stuff like that.
I looked into Chilliwack and Red Rider and stuff like that but couldn’t find one that fit
Do you remember the nationality of the band? And where—at least, what country, if not what channel—you saw the video?
:eek: So this could have been some local or obscure Canadian band that those of us in the states have never seen or heard of? And it’s been over 30 years since you have?
:smack: Good luck with that.
I think I saw the video a few times, but it certainly wasn’t a “hit”.
^ I hear ya.
I thought I’d remember if the band was Canadian, but this is certainly possible. I was only about 10-12 at the time.