{"id":25708,"date":"2014-06-21T05:42:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T09:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25708"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:02:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:02:58","slug":"easy-lover-the-making-of-a-music-video-1984-style-heres-phil-collins-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25708","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Easy Lover&#8221;&#8230;The Making Of A Music Video, 1984 Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Easy-Lover...The-Making-Of-A-Music-Video-1984-Style-Heres-Phil-Collins-and.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Easy Lover&#8221;&#8230;The Making Of A Music Video, 1984 Style<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Phil Collins and Earth, Wind And Fire lead singer Phillip Bailey recording their 1984 duet in London. I think these are Ikegami 323 model cameras. The song was released in the US in November of &#8217;84 and in the UK in February of &#8217;85. &#8220;Easy Lover&#8221; won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Overall Performance in a Video in 1985 and was Grammy nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals that year too.<\/p>\n<p>Where were you when this song came out? What were you doing? I was playing it on the radio in Miami. I was the original afternoon drive air personality on the country&#8217;s first HOT formated station, WHQT, Hot 105. Thanks to Juan Leal for sharing this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JkRKT6T0QLg\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JkRKT6T0QLg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Philip Bailey, Phil Collins - Easy Lover\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JkRKT6T0QLg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Music video by Philip Bailey Duet with Phil Collins performing Easy Lover. (C) 1984 Sony BMG Music Entertainment<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/692234610814091\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Easy Lover&#8221;&#8230;The Making Of A Music Video, 1984 Style Here&#8217;s Phil Collins and Earth, Wind And Fire lead singer Phillip Bailey recording their 1984 duet in London. I think these are Ikegami 323 model cameras. The song was released in the US in November of &#8217;84 and in the UK in February of &#8217;85. &#8220;Easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[683,794,800,793],"class_list":["post-25708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cameras","tag-ikegami","tag-mtv","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}