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	[Photograph] :: Jan 1983. Directed by :: David Mallet (MGMM). Producer 1 :: Jacqui Byford. Producer 2 :: Len Epand. Shoot Date :: Fri 2nd Dec 1982 (Sav's birthday). Location :: ? Studios, Battersea, London, England. The version on the 'Historia' VHS/DVD. The knife scenes are in this version only. Filmed in a studio near the famous Battersea Power Station. Storyline follows a Marilyn Monroe look-a-like model being stalked.
	[Photograph (Censored) ] :: Jan 1983 (only available on TV). Directed by :: David Mallet (MGMM). Producer :: Jacqui Byford. Shoot Date :: Fri 2nd Dec 1982 (Sav's birthday). Location :: ? Studios, Battersea, London, England. The censored version for TV (especially the UK but probably never got much airplay). At the start the knife scene/dead body is replaced with a woman's hand dropping some necklace's/black cat against a wall/Joe jumping off the drum riser. Later scenes shown the girls dancing in place of all knife shots. This is now the only Lep video (version) not released on VHS or DVD. It is being played on MTV2 in the US. [ Censored Scenes Gallery ]
	[Rock of Ages] :: April 1983. Directed by :: David Mallet (MGMM). Producer :: Jacqui Byford. Shoot Date :: Wed 8th Dec 1982 (Phil's birthday). Location :: ? Studios, Battersea, London, England. Guest :: Peter Mensch (co-manager) as the Monk (see pic). Premiered on US MTV 20th April 1983. 'Photograph' & this video were done a week apart. Notice the band all using the same instruments from the 'Photograph' video. Ross Halfin took pics during both shoots.
	[Foolin'] :: Aug 1983. Directed by :: David Mallet (MGMM). Producer :: Jacqui Byford. Shoot Date :: June 1983. Location :: Ritz Theatre, Elizabeth, NJ, USA. Guest :: Peri Lister (Billy Idol's then gf) on violin (see pic). Filming at small theatre not a full Lep show. Extra 'Skull' backdrops were not used on the main tour. Ross Halfin's photos from this shoot were published in 'Animal Instinct' and in many magazines. Joe mentioned in an interview that he had spent a day filming scenes riding a horse along a NJ beach for one of the acting sequences but this was not used. Location confirmed on the 2005 ROA DVD by Phil. The UK only single 'Too Late For Love' did not have a video.
	[Bringin' On The Heartbreak (Version 2) ] :: April 1984. Directed by :: David Mallet (MGMM). Shoot Date :: Feb 1984. Location :: Jacob's Biscuit Factory/Lake, Dublin, Ireland. Band playing in a factory/Steve-Phil playing guitar on industrial cylos/Rick-Sav paddling a raft with Joe on a cross over a lake. Featured Phil Collen who didn't feature on the track. The sound was the 1984 remix with added fairlight drums and dodgy keyboards. Videos/Singles were released to coincide with the May 1984 US re-release of 'High 'N' Dry'. On the 'Historia/ITR' DVD this video was re-edited with the sound of the 1981 original. Also done for the 'Best Of The Videos' DVD in 2004. Future Lep director Nigel Dick worked on this video taking pics of the back as the shooting took place: PIC/INFO
	[Me and My Wine] :: April 1984. Directed by :: David Mallet (MGMM). Shoot Date :: Feb 1984. Location :: A house in Dublin, Ireland. Classic video inspired by 'The Young Ones' (UK TV show) including many unrehearsed/improvised scenes. The new remix of the song featured added fairlight drums like the sound on 'Pyromania'. The house used was Paddy Freeny's mother's. His rehearsal space was used to record early Hysteria demos: as heard on the 'Classic Albums Hysteria' DVD. David Mallet would later direct the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert in April 1992. (All pics on page - screenshots from DVDs by DLUK/Magazine scan by DLUK from Kerrang!.)

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