Smokie - Living Next Door to Alice (VOD)

What this video is

Released in November 1976, 'Living Next Door to Alice' marked Smokie's commercial and cultural peak as the flagship act of the Chinnichap production machine (Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman), who also wrote for Sweet, Suzi Quatro, and Mud. The song became a pan-European phenomenon, topping charts in seven countries including Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, and Switzerland. The music video — a…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of the British Chinnichap soft-rock era, the video documents the visual register of a mid-70s UK promotional clip at its most unmediated: no narrative, no extras, minimal production — purely the band in a dark room. Its aesthetic restraint contrasts with the song's enormous…