The Rolling Stones and ABKCO Music & Records Inc. have released the official music video for “Child of the Moon,” filmed in 1968.
Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg (Let It Be, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, Simon & Garfunkel’s The Concert in Central Park), this surrealist promotional film, which features all five original band members and Emmy Award-winning actress Dame Eileen June Atkins (The Dresser, Gosford Park, The Crown), has been newly restored in both a standard definition color version and a 4K resolution black & white version. Watch “Child of the Moon” original music video directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg (black & white 4K version).
Michael Lindsay-Hogg remembers conceptualizing the music video.
I said to Mick Jagger, ‘I think we really need a white horse in the field. Think Fellini,’ because Fellini was the go-to guy in the ‘50s and the ‘60s for the odd ingredient in the shot, whether it was a clown in white face or a white horse. We all arrived at various times in this field looking onto a sort of clump of trees aiming up a little hill. Brian was late, which is sort of the reason Brian isn’t around for a while in the shot.
Mick said, ‘Do you want me to mime?’ I said, ‘No. I think we want to try something even more different here. More radical. We intercut you with things that are happening up in the trees and make a little story.’
