The Rolling Stones - Mixed Emotions - OFFICIAL PROMO

What this video is

Released on 21 August 1989, 'Mixed Emotions' served as the lead single from Steel Wheels, the Rolling Stones' first album in three years and the symbolic end of the Jagger-Richards creative estrangement that had fractured the band since Dirty Work (1986). The song reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart, becoming the band's last mainstream US top-10 hit. It launched the Steel…

Why it matters

A canonical example of the late-80s classic rock comeback promo format: performance-driven, visually energetic, and strategically positioned to reassert a legacy band's commercial and creative authority. The rapid cutting (avg shot 1.70s, 145 scene changes) set a template for how established rock…

The director

Jim Gable is a music video director and producer whose work spans major rock and pop artists including the Rolling Stones, Sting, David Bowie, and Aerosmith; co-founder of production company Graying & Balding, Inc. James Signorelli is an American film…