Flowers - We Can Get Together (International Version)

What this video is

This video documents a pivotal transition in Australian popular music: Flowers, formed in Sydney in 1977, released 'We Can Get Together' in September 1980 on the independent label Regular Records as the second single from their debut album Icehouse. The song peaked at #16 on the Australian Kent Music Report charts. When the band signed with Chrysalis Records in early 1981 for European, Japanese, UK, and US…

Why it matters

A canonical early document of Australian synth-pop's global ambitions, 'We Can Get Together' predates the international MTV explosion by mere months. Its Mulcahy-directed clip is part of the same production lineage that placed Australian acts like Icehouse alongside UK new wave peers on Chrysalis.…

The director

Russell Mulcahy (born 23 June 1953, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian director who rose to prominence directing music videos in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He directed the Buggles' 'Video Killed the Radio Star' (1979), the first video ever aired on…