“So instead of having a restful weekend I went in and edited I’m Still Standing and I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues. And say, ‘You look like death but anyway you have to get to the airport,’ so they pick me up and I get in a car and I’m taken to the airport and put on a plane to fly to Australia, which in those days is like 29-hour flight or something. “And then the next day we all get on a plane and go back to England, get on a bus and we get down to the location and we start shooting I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues. I mean when we say a day’s shooting, normally a video is 17-hour days. We shot most of the video outside the Carlton and on their beach, using their chairs and umbrellas and all that, but a couple of those shots in the evening and at night, like the car with all the people on it, were at the Negresco. “Near the end of the video when Elton goes to that other room with the statues? That’s the Le Negresco Hotel. That’s why there are all those takes in the ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah’ parts.” “And he brought these cases of glasses, like 500 glasses. Elton, or whomever, saying, ‘Let’s do this…’ For example, the 'Choc Ice Lives' on the clapperboard – Elton asked for that… a fun code I guess. The energy you see in the video was the energy on the set and behind the scenes it was just total fun and comradery and creativity. I think by that accident happening on the first day, everyone just came up with the most incredible energy. I think they were loving it – they had Elton John out on the promenade! We just kept filming, waiting for someone to tell us to stop… and no one did. “We were lucky that they drive on the other side of the road there, so we were able to get Elton and the Carlton framed in the shot with the cameraman in the passenger seat. On day two he was down there serving coffee to everyone in the morning! It was all boom-boom-boom: Elton would be off getting costumed and I'd be shooting other things, like the traffic cops or the beach frolicking stuff, and then he’d come back in a different costume. If the cameraman, Nick, got tired or had to go to the toilet, I would film. I'm like, ‘Oh my God, what's happened?’ Elton and Arlene come up and say, ‘Are you okay?’ And I think I jokingly said, ‘I'm still standing,’ at which point Elton laughed and said, ‘Well come on, let's all just go downstairs and be fabulous.’”Īfter Russell had dried himself off and a replacement camera had been found, “We went back down and had the most extraordinary two days. He comes up, ‘I found the camera!’ I'm trying to get onto this pylon which is covered in moss and is very slippery! Eventually, I'm dragged out and taken through the lobby of the Carlton Hotel like a wet rat. “I had a leather jacket on – it was a little chilly because it was early in the morning – and I come up and an assistant cameraman is diving in. You shouldn't do that at the end of piers. We were trying to go a little too fast at that point. Elton's singing away and.‘woahhh!’! Off I go. “I’m hand-held and I’m walking backwards and I end up falling backwards going off the pier. “I decided to film first Elton walking down the pier outside the Carlton,” recalls Mulcahy.
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