Slade - Universe (Music Video) (1991)

Slade’s music video for their last single Universe, released in December 1991. The single failed to crack the top 75 of the UK Singles Chart, stalling at number 76, and the band split in early 1992. This video is sourced directly from a Polydor Records VHS copy, and the quality is much better than my other upload of this video. Many thanks to Neil Partridge for supplying the cassette to me for transferring it across onto the computer. This video, like the previous 1991 single Radio Wall of Sound, was directed by William Clark, who kindly recollected his thoughts for the Slade Cove website in 2014: “Universe was a much tamer affair, shot in a studio in Shepherd’s Bush. What was interesting about that shoot was the graphics were all painted on a piece of glass about 6“ x 4“ by the scenic artist who did a lot of the work on Time Bandits the same way. So the shot of Dave playing guitar was achieved by him standing on a flight case at one end of an empty studio to get the scale, whilst the camera shot through this delicately painted small piece of glass at the other end. It’s difficult to see now because there doesn’t seem to be a decent print around, but in the days before CGI it really was imaginative and beautiful.“ Information on Universe can be found on Wikipedia: ((Slade_song))