The Rolling Stones - Love Is Strong - OFFICIAL PROMO

What this video is

Released July 4, 1994, as the lead single from Voodoo Lounge — the Rolling Stones' first album on Virgin Records and first without founding bassist Bill Wyman — 'Love Is Strong' arrived at a critical juncture for the band's commercial and critical identity. The video's black-and-white giant-scale concept, executed by David Fincher at the height of his music video powers (between Alien 3 and Se7en), translated the…

Why it matters

A landmark of 1990s high-concept rock video production, 'Love Is Strong' demonstrates how A-list Hollywood directors (Fincher, pre-Se7en) elevated the music video form into cinematic event objects. Its use of Digital Domain compositing for large-scale practical-impossible imagery prefigures the…

The director

David Andrew Leo Fincher (b. August 28, 1962, Denver, CO) is an American film and music video director. He worked at Industrial Light & Magic (1981–1983), then co-founded Propaganda Films (1986). He directed 53+ music videos between 1984–1993 for artists…