Anton Corbijn

... that maybe not everyone knows about.

In this case it's Anton Corbijn, who is the photographer and videographer and album cover designer, it should be said, who joins as kind of a creative director around the Black Celebration album.

So around '86, '85, '86, he comes into the equation.

He, he'd already photographed them for an NME cover.

[laughs]

In the American desert.

That is all thanks to Anton Corbijn, who gave them a visual identity and gave them a kind of coolness that Depeche Mode literally at the 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, Dave said, "I'd like to thank Anton Corbijn, who thank God came in at the right time and actually made us look cool."

[laughs]

... it's, it's heartbreaking is the word.

And the first time I watched it was in a completely empty cinema because I was gonna interview Anton Corbijn, the director, and, um, they arranged a screening for me at the old Paramount Theater, which doesn't exist anymore.

But- I, I literally had the theater to myself on something like a Thursday morning.

They made me a coffee, and I went in and watched this film.

Is here in my arms.

Tourists are lining up to recreate the photo of the British electro-pop band that was taken by Anton Corbijn.

I'm Carmen Roberts.

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Uh, and it's also b- uh, we know the, the theme is, like, Carnaval, uh, de Luz, um, for the next album.

And I remember the shots they did for the Joshua Tree Tour in 2017 in Mexico, also with Anton Corbijn, um, and they had a lot of Carnavalesque outfits over there.

Do you think there might be a connection and they re- uh, finally gonna release the Joshua Tree Tour film? Or do you think that's total out of the, uh, or out of, um, uh, they're not gonna do that? [laughs]

I think the Joshua Tree film will eventually get released.

But yeah, Danny, I think he's great.

Like I was saying, Anton Corbijn, the Dutch photographer.

Just Google him and you know a bunch of those pictures.

And that exhibit we saw had so many cool sections.

I saw, by the way, just to answer Nick's question, I saw all these videos contemporarily because not only did I see most of them on MTV, I had the Danzig II home video which had all of these.

And the question remains, uh, 36 years later, how did they afford Anton Corbijn to direct a video for Kevin Wolfe? How? They d- Danzig must really have money.

I, that, that was my first [laughs]-

Really has a lot of money then.

How did this-

[laughs]

... video merit, how did this song merit a video, let alone one directed by Anton Corbijn? But it's not a bad song, it's just, just like, after the first two it's just like, all right, that's okay.

I really like this one a lot, but I had to, uh, all I could remember was a story that some guy told me at a record store.

What an absolutely brilliant, uh, summation of it.

At times it reminded me a little bit of, um, there was a film that Anton Corbijn made, uh, L- Life, which was about the period in which Dennis Stock and, and, um, and James Dean travel back to Indiana to do that, the sort of famous photograph, and it, and it's, you know, that's really what happens.

Apparently nothing happens, but that's quite an important thing.

And this is a film in which not much happens, but a lot happens under the surface.