Paul McCartney - My Brave Face

What this video is

Released in May 1989, 'My Brave Face' was McCartney's assertive commercial return, co-written with Elvis Costello for the Flowers in the Dirt album. The video's Liverpool shoot anchored the project in McCartney's origins while the archival intercuts with Beatles and Wings footage explicitly positioned his solo identity within a continuum of pop history. The Japanese fan-collector narrative reflected the era's…

Why it matters

This video exemplifies the late-80s narrative music video form at its most culturally self-aware — weaving fictional vignette with archival retrospective in a way that prefigures the heritage-pop video aesthetic. It is a primary document of the Flowers in the Dirt campaign and McCartney's…

The director

Roger Lunn is a British music video and film director active in the late 1980s and 1990s. He is credited as the director of the 1989 promotional film for Paul McCartney's 'My Brave Face', produced by Laura Gregory for MPL Communications. The video was filmed…