The Rolling Stones - Harlem Shuffle - OFFICIAL PROMO

What this video is

Released in March 1986 as the lead single from the Rolling Stones' album Dirty Work — their first studio album on the new CBS/Columbia Records contract — 'Harlem Shuffle' was notable as the first cover song the Stones had released as an opening single from a new studio album since 1965. The track reached No. 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 13 in the UK. The video's pairing of the world's most iconic rock band…

Why it matters

A landmark in music video history as one of the earliest and highest-profile examples of the live-action/animation hybrid format. Bakshi's involvement brought a lineage of adult underground animation — Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic — into the mainstream MTV context. The video also served as a…

The director

Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938, Haifa, Palestine) is an American animator and filmmaker who pioneered adult-oriented independent animation. Beginning at Terrytoons as a cel polisher, he rose to director, then founded Bakshi Productions in 1968. Between…