Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Angel

What this video is

Released in April 1990 as Eurythmics' final UK single for nearly a decade, 'Angel' arrived at a liminal moment in British pop—post-punk's commercial peak had passed and grunge was months away from reshaping global rock. The video's depiction of a séance and occult ritual, combined with its bifurcated chromatic world-building, placed it squarely within an early-1990s vogue for spiritually confrontational art-pop…

Why it matters

A landmark in British art-pop video production, 'Angel' exemplifies Sophie Muller and Annie Lennox's collaborative model of treating the music video as a short cinematic work with genuine narrative and emotional architecture. Its MTV ban paradoxically reinforced its countercultural status, and it…

The director

Sophie Luise Elisabeth Muller (born 31 January 1962, London) is an English music video director who has directed over 300 music videos. She trained at Central St Martins and the Royal College of Art. She won a Grammy Award for Annie Lennox's 1992 Diva video…