It was 1983 and true rock bands didn’t know which way to go. With the advent of MTV, music changed drastically. Some was quite interesting. Some was prepackaged for an appealing video. The Rolling Stones earlier videos were, well, goofy. This time I believe a conscience effort was made to make a musical change to fit the times and make an interesting video.

What a video it was. Mick Jagger played two characters, one of which was abducted and supposedly assassinated. So we thought. Enter the white-suite-wearing-moustache-sporting “other Mick” who picked up a girl who was “under covers” (in a bed). Together they crashed through the gates of the tropical criminal fortress and saved the other Mick. The “hero Mick” then died of his gunshot wounds.

All of this was witnessed by a young couple watching TV. It’s a pretty typically murky early 80’s video storyline laced with band performance shots. It wasn’t exactly “Jumping Jack Flash” but “Undercover of the Night” proved that the Stones rolled with the times, but not by becoming Duran Duran. Keith would’ve rolled his eyes at that notion.