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- The video features caricature puppets by the British television show Spitting Image. After Phil Collins saw a caricatured version of himself on the show, he commissioned the show's creators, Peter Fluck and Roger Law, to create puppets of the entire band, as well as all the characters in the video.
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Land of Confusion" is a rock song written by the band Genesis for their 1986 album Invisible Touch. The song was the third track on the album and was the fourth track from the album to become a single, which reached number 4 in the US [1] and number 14 in the UK in late 1986. [2]
The song's video featured puppets from the 1980s UK sketch show Spitting Image. Critical reception [ edit ] Billboard said it has an "anxious beat" and a "tentatively hopeful lyric."
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The very popular video was made using puppets created by Peter Fluck and Roger Law, who had a British TV series called The Spitting Image. The show would often make fun of Genesis, and by hiring their tormentors, the band proved that they could take a joke.
Jun 9, 2015 · The video's famous puppets were taken from the British TV show Spitting Image. Phil Collins commissioned the creators of the show to make puppets of the three band members. It was directed by John Lloyd & Jim Yukich and produced by Jon Blair which won the Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video.
In 1986, the Spitting Image team experienced some real musical success when they created the video for "Land of Confusion" by Genesis, a song which implied that Thatcher and Reagan were about to bring the world to a nuclear war.
The origin of 'spitting image' is uncertain, though it most likely evolved from 'spit,' meaning 'perfect likeness,' possibly due to the idea of a child resembling their parent so closely they were 'spit out' of their mouth.
Spitting Image puppets were used for the video of Genesis’ Land of Confusion. The video mainly featured the Ronald Reagan puppet which was again voiced by Chris Barrie.
