And I got to dress up as king, with the crown and everything. It was quite hard work, but it was a lot of fun. Fed up with the freezing conditions onsite, Gahan handed the costume to Bell and left upon learning the next scene was to be a long shot: The Swiss Alps long shots seen in the final moments of the video are noteworthy as the king seen roaming through the tundra is video producer Richard Bell. By the end of filming the Scotland sequence, the crew's vehicle (a Range Rover) became trapped in the tundra. Conditions during filming in Scotland were reported to be unbearably cold for both the crew and Gahan, who was required to stand on a windy hillside for more than eight hours dressed lightly in costume. Image courtesy of Instagram user ModeMan101.įilming for the landscape beach and field footage began at the Queen's Balmoral Estate in Scotland before resuming in the Swiss Alps and Alvor, Portugal in mid-January 1990. The folding deck chair prop featured in the music video, won by fan ModeMan101 at a Depeche Mode convention. We went into the studio, and Anton said, 'This will only take a while', and we said, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is going to take all day.' And he said after an hour, 'Well, you can go home now', and we thought, 'Oh, great!' And poor old Dave, he had six days of filming in freezing conditions in the Alps, in everywhere, which was just freezing."
Andrew Fletcher recalled: "'Enjoy The Silence' was my personal favourite video to make, because it only took me an hour.
The video uses an officially unreleased (in audio form, unreleased as of November 2019) edit of the album version of 'Enjoy The Silence', featuring an alternate introduction comprised of the outro choir melody, harpsichord-like stabs, bass stabs, the primary choir stabs, a hi-hat pattern, and snare.įilming began in a London studio, featuring black and white footage of the band posing against a black background.
DEPECHE MODE SONGS ENJOY THE SILENCE SERIES
Through a series of landscape shots, Gahan is seen roaming solemnly through lush, remote vistas in humble search of a quiet place to sit, interspersed with quick cuts of black and white footage featuring the band and stylized photographs of the Violator rose. The music video for 'Enjoy The Silence' features Dave Gahan dressed as a king carrying a folding deck chair.
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