Between a Heart and a Rock Place (18 page)

In the beginning, MTV completely encouraged creativity and new ideas. The video for “Shadows in the Night” was unlike any video we'd done to that point. With its story line, elaborate concept about World War II, and professional actors like Judge Reinhold (pictured), I wanted to see just how far we could push the story and still have it work with the song.
Photograph by Jeffrey Mayer

 

 

At the shoot for the “Get Nervous” video.
Photograph by Jeffrey Mayer

 

 

The presentation of quintuple platinum albums for
Crimes of Passion
(
from left to right:
Myron, Spyder, me, Charlie Giordano, Roger, two representatives from Chrysalis, and Newman).
Photograph from the author's collection

 

 

Quintessential '80s: lots of eyeliner and bad clothes.
Photograph by Jeffrey Mayer

 

 

This photograph was taken during an HBO special that we did in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1982.
Photograph by Jeffrey Mayer

 

 

A shot from the set of the video for “Love Is a Battlefield.” It took forty-eight hours of intense rehearsal to get ready for the dance sequence in the video. The end results were worth it, but I couldn't walk for days afterward.
Photograph by Misha Erwitt

 

 

During the video shoot for “Lipstick Lies” this is the band having a laugh between takes.
Photograph by Jeffrey Mayer

 

 

Spyder and me in 1983.
Photograph by Laura Levine

 

 

The schedule of touring and promotion was never-ending. When we weren't recording an album, we were either on the road or promoting it with publicity photographs like this one.
Photograph by Mathew Rolston

 

 

This photograph was from an article in
Harper's Bazaar. Photograph by Mathew Rolston

 

 

A publicity shot from 1984.
Photograph by Wayne Mazer

 

 

This was taken on the set of the video for “We Belong,” which was featured on our album
Tropico.
It was while we were recording this record that I learned I was pregnant with our first daughter.
Photograph by Jeffrey Mayer