This is the uncut original video of The Verve’s ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’.
Everybody’s familiar with frontman Richard Ashcroft’s arrogant swaggering down the street banging into the general public several times including an irate lady he leapt on the bonnet of a car on.
Director Walter Stern came up with the idea of a person walking in a straight line down the street which explains why Ashcroft simply doesn’t move direction or change his stride and the camera pans to the movement of his feet on the pavement flags.
In the more popular video it’s shows him glaring into a car window then continuing down the street with the band following behind him.
In the original version he is beaten by a gang of thugs as he crosses the street in front of the members of the band and left bloodied and battered and stumbling until he reaches the end of his journey.
This version was subsequently withdrawn in favour of the re edited promo.
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