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2 unusual facts about New Moon on Monday


New Moon on Monday

The music video for "New Moon on Monday" was filmed by director Brian Grant during the icy first week of January 1984, in the village of Noyers in France.

The longest is a 17-minute "movie version" which includes an extended introduction before the song starts (including a scene of dialogue between Simon Le Bon and the story's female lead, played by Patricia Barzyk, winner of the Miss France title in 1980; a brief snippet of "Union of the Snake" is also heard on a radio), and is set to an extended remix of the song.



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The process was difficult and error-prone, and did not function at all with many Apple Macintosh computers, and the reward was minimal: the audio quality of "New Moon On Monday" wasn't exceptional, and the promised video content turned out to be a slow-moving collage of album and single covers.