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...five dancers as "The Moors" literally provide live scenery, contrasting with the otherwise minimalist setting. A video, though, needs more. This is more than your average two and a half minutes of Van Halen and 20 women in bikinis, it's two hours, 26 numbers and quite intricate. And for that reason alone, the dancers are not sufficient to create the setting...
...that he or she is determined to say something new--anything new. Sitting in class listening to this scholastic yuppie say "...the Bible thus foreshadows life, for just as Hagar is chosen by God to give birth to Ishmael, so will Sammy Hagar be chosen to sing for Van Halen. However, whereas the seed of Hagar will flee before the tribe of David, David Lee Roth will do his own album," is not the worst part...
...liveliest, most adventuresome song here is the recently released single, "All the Kings Horses." Here Tony Franklin's keyboards actually dominate the song. They sweep up and down and back, then drop to near silence, except for Rodgers' cool and restrained vocals. Similar to the opening to Van Halen's 1984, the keyboards provide a musical foil for an oscillating rhythm section...
...songs, Dire Straits. Now, thanks to "Money For Nothing," a ZZ Top parody that happened to hit Number One, this small man with a balding John McEnroe "hairstyle" is an arena giant, a jukebox hero and an heir apparent to such names as Page, Clapton, Townshend--and yes, Van Halen. Mark Knopfler just doesn't know quite what to do with his sudden fame...
...expects to meet three roommates like himself: with strong interests in chess, passions for classical music, and no desires for "creative disorder." As the door swings open, he is greeted by Van Halen being played at top volume, a floorful of dirty clothing, and two roomies tossing a football...