Location, Location, Location

INXS - 'Never Tear Us Apart' (1987)
directed by Richard Lowenstein

Sometimes the one thing that makes a music video so lasting and plants such an impression, is where the video is filmed, its location. I cannot think of a better example, than INXS' Never Tear Us Apart, which was set in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic.

A place that has seen many wars, it still carries some of the scars of those battles. Nevertheless beautiful and magical, Prague boasts a certain mystique and vast emotion, that the song itself expresses.




I was lucky enough the make the journey to Prague a few years back and it was truly humbling. To walk on the Charles Bridge and visit the Jewish Cemetery and follow in the footsteps of Michael Hutchence, it was an incredible journey and one that I will never forget.

At the end of the video there is powerful and moving scene where all the boys of INXS branch out and walk separate ways across the Old Town Square. You watch them walk away and disappear into the crowds. It is symbolic of the end and so moving.

INXS' 'Never Tear Us Apart', a great song and a stunning video.