Genesis Anything She Does - Genesis Anything She Does

What this video is

Released in 1986 as a non-single album track from Genesis's thirteenth studio album Invisible Touch—their most commercially successful record—'Anything She Does' represents the band's full embrace of mainstream pop-rock at a moment when MTV had made the music video an essential promotional and artistic medium. The choice to build the video around Benny Hill, a titan of British slapstick television comedy…

Why it matters

Stands as a notable example of the 'comedy sketch' sub-genre of 1980s music videos, blending performance footage with scripted narrative comedy in the tradition of British light entertainment television. Unusual in the arena-rock canon for its non-promotional, tour-integrated function, and for…

The director

James 'Jim' Yukich (b. March 12, 1963) is an American film and music video director. He graduated from Purdue University's Brian Lamb School of Communication in 1978 with a BA in Film/TV, began his career in the mailroom at Capitol-EMI Records in Hollywood,…