Sunday, March 13, 2022

Musical Interlude: Calling Elvis (1991)

 Dire Straits' final studio album, "On Every Street", was released in 1991. For the first single/video, "Calling Elvis", Mark Knopfler and the band took a page from the Grateful Dead.

What I mean by that is the use of puppets, under the direction of the legendary Gerry Anderson, who used characters from Thunderbirds, in addition to the puppet Straits. The live-action portion was directed by veteran Steve Barron, and the story surrounds a woman who thinks Elvis Presley is still alive (because that was still a thing in 1991).

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