Lookin’ for a Heartbeat

By matty ⋅ October 27, 2006 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

I’d like to take this opportunity, my inaugural post here at the Scarecrow blog, to encourage each and every one of you reading this to come down to the store, head up to the Rock Musical section, and pick up Don Johnson’s Heartbeat, possibly the greatest music video/docudrama ever made.  Or at least the most jawdroppingly ridiculous 80’s nostalgia blast you’re likely to see.  A dialogue-free, 62 minute companion piece to Don’s 1987 album, Heartbeat casts him as a war photographer reliving his most memorable experiences as he drifts between life and death.  Sound pretentious and silly?  It is.  But so amazingly worth it.  Featuring an all star cast including David Carradine, Luis Guzman, Willie Nelson and of course the great Paul Shaffer, Heartbeat is that Saturday night boredom-killer you’ve been rooting through our shelves for years in the hopes of finding.

As a sidenote, I have had Philip Bailey and Phil Collins’ 1984 collaboration “Easy Lover” stuck in my head for the last 48 hours.  You can see the tremendous video for this here.

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