Ace 60's lensman Brian Duffy died today - very sad, many moons ago in 1988 he directed a Blue Merc vid for the song 'See, Want, Must Have' in Goa which I have very fond memories of - the actual 'travelogue style' video wasn't particularly ground breaking but we did have a laugh in the face of a few disasters - The camera equipment was impounded at Bombay airport for a few days and the camera man (duffy's son) chipped his tibia on a concrete step whilst filming and returned to the UK in a wheelchair - Duffy wanted to have a dancing bear in the story but we wimped out as we thought it would be a turn off for animal loving teenage girl fans (now of course I would have demanded an army of dancing bears in chains) - Simon Napier Bell our manager, turned up halfway through the shoot to join in the fun - Unfortunately, I recollect Duffy losing some of his own money on this project due to some record label incompetence which kind of left a bad taste in our mouths, nonetheless he was a lovely guy and a brilliant photographer and I am glad that I had the chance to hang out with him, especially in such bizarre circumstances -
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Brilliant post - more old pics from blue merc days please. Liking the new look blog, btw!
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