Deacon Blue - Chocolate Girl

What this video is

Released in July 1988 as the fourth single from Deacon Blue's debut album Raintown (CBS, 1987), 'Chocolate Girl' arrived during a fertile period for Scottish alternative pop acts breaking onto the UK major-label scene alongside contemporaries such as Wet Wet Wet and Del Amitri. The single peaked at No. 43 on the UK Singles Chart, spending seven weeks in the listing — a modest chart position belied by its enduring…

Why it matters

A key artefact of late-1980s British sophisti-pop and blue-eyed soul, 'Chocolate Girl' documents the convergence of piano-driven melodicism, pedal steel texture, and thoughtful lyrical construction that distinguished Deacon Blue from contemporaneous synth-pop acts. The rapid-cut live performance…

The director

Tony van den Ende is a British director, filmmaker and photographer whose career spans from the early 1980s into the 2000s. He holds over 92 directorial music video credits (IMVDb) and is known for era-defining work including A Flock of Seagulls' 'I Ran',…