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Top 20 on the strength of this single. A music video to promote the song was filmed in
October of 1984. Jimmy Page broke with the past and participated in the recording for the music video and single, the first time he had done both since the late 1960s. Page can be seen miming to the recording with
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plays a steady drum beat throughout. On live performances, the song was introduced with a drum solo from Slade, leading into
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his famous red doubleneck 1971 Gibson EDS-1275 guitar. In March 1985,
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Atlantic Records, cracked the
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