U2 - Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

What this video is

Released as the second single from U2's tenth studio album 'All That You Can't Leave Behind' (2000), this video arrived during U2's critically celebrated commercial comeback. The song was released in the UK on 29 January 2001 and went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in 2002. The song's emotional core — Bono's imagined posthumous…

Why it matters

A landmark of the alt-rock prestige video format, the Kevin Godley international cut eschews the spectacle of the concurrent Joseph Kahn North American version in favor of raw physical metaphor. It exemplifies the 'concept realism' subgenre of early-2000s music video: a single unambiguous visual…

The director

Kevin Michael Godley (born 7 October 1945, Prestwich, Lancashire, England) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, and music video director. He rose to fame as drummer and vocalist of the art rock band 10cc in the 1970s, then formed the influential duo…