MTV Programming Week of 1985-02-20

Pat Metheny Group and David Bowie perform in the music video "This Is Not America" from the original motion picture soundtrack for The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) recorded for EMI Records. David Bowie sings while the band plays as video clips from film play out.

Chicago performs in the music video "Along Comes a Woman" from the album "Chicago 17" recorded for Full Moon Records and Warner Brothers Records. The music video begins with a black and white sequence where an an adventure is running away from natives in the jungle. He later goes to Morocco and pears a woman.

Deep Purple performs in the music video "Knocking at Your Back Door" from the album "Perfect Strangers" recorded for Polydor Records. The music video opens with shots of windmills and the sun going down. The video features a group of futuristic archaeologists discovering music instruments in the ruins of Earth. The band plays on stage with Ian Gillan singing.

Sade performs in the music video "Smooth Operator" from the album "Diamond Life" recorded for Epic Records and Portrait Records. Sade sings with her band in a lounge against a red background as people dance. A criminal in aviator sunglasses meets with several associates and makes a deal.

John Waite performs in the music video "Change" from the album "Ignition" recorded for Chrysalis Records. The music video with a woman on the ledge of a women who is thinking of jumping. John Waite as a reporter stands in the window with a television crew and sings to her.

Video promo for "Somebody" by Bryan Adams from the album Reckless.

Phil Collins performs in the music video "One More Night" from the album "No Jacket Required" recorded for Virgin Records. Phil Collins sits at the piano at and sings the song at a club after closing time. When he finishes the song, he bids farewell to the bartender and leaves.

The Firm performs in the music video "Radioactive" from the album "The Firm" recorded for Atlantic Records. Paul Rodgers plays guitar and sings while the rest of the band play behind him on a smokey concert stage. Jimmy Page plays a double guitar during his solo.

Mick Jagger performs in the music video "Just Another Night" from the album "She's the Boss" recorded for Columbia Records. Mick Jagger talks to a woman who talks him into performing. He goes to the stage in the club, grabs a guitar, and begins to sing while clips of him romancing the woman play throughout.

The official music video for the single "Girlfriend is Better", performed by Talking Heads, was captured from a live performance featured in Jonathan Demme's rockumentary "Stop Making Sense", showing David Byrne and his giant suit, and the electrifying act from the group.

Twisted Sister performs in the music video "The Price" from the album "Stay Hungry" recorded for Atlantic Records. The music video features the band performing on the concert stage of the Veterans Memorial Arena in Binghamton, New York. Dee Snider sings into a pink microphone as the band plays around him.

John Waite performs in the music video "Restless Heart" from the album "No Brakes" recorded for EMI America Records. The music video begins on a desert road with John Waite's pulling into a gas station. As he waits, he sees a vision of a car. He is driving with a woman and later performs at a concert.

The music video was shot in London, England and later Los Angeles. Directed by Steve Barron, it was nominated for the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards in five different categories: Best Direction, Best Special Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography. While the song didn't win any of the awards, it has received more MTV Video Music Award nominations than any other of Adams's songs. The English actress Lysette Anthony appears in the video.

Philip Bailey and Phil Collins perform in the music video for "Easy Lover" off of Bailey's album "Chinese Wall" recorded by Columbia Records. Bailey and Collins perform in the lighthearted music video shot in London about the making of a music video.

Foreigner performs in the music video "I Want to Know What Love Is" from the album "Agent Provocateur" recorded for Atlantic Records. The video opens with Lou Gramm singing intently into a microphone at a recording studio. Video clips feature a white woman who wakes up and takes a shower, as well as a group of Afroamerican men and women (a man working on a high rise, and a woman working at a cleaner...) taking a bus to go the studio, meet the band and being the chorus for the song. The video ends with the white woman arriving at the studio to hug Lou Gramm.