Ex-Babys frontman John Waite went solo in 1982, and his first video, "Change", got significant airplay on MTV, back when it was the hip place to be.
We're led to believe Waite is playing a news reporter trying to help a potential suicide victim, but then.......
"Change" was a cover of a track by the group, Spider, released a year earlier. Neither version cracked the Top 40, and Waite had two shots. In 1982, "Change" failed to reach the Top 40, but peaked at #16 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Three years later, "Change" was reissued as a track on the soundtrack to the movie, "Vision Quest", but peaked at #54 on the Hot 100.
Waite's producer was Neil Geraldo, husband of Chrysalis label-mate Pat Benatar, and Scandal vocalist Patty Smyth, heard but not seen in the video, contributed backing vocals.
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