In another post on Cold War songs – I have been busy with other stuff and frankly it is easier to write posts on songs, than finish the 20 drafts I have on books and movies. Speaking/writing of which, I watched Crimson Tide this morning and is it better than The Hunt for Red October? – I might just well be.

This song is about Elton Johns love for a Russian man, but in the video, attached below, it features an East German female Border guard. There is no denying in the video that Nikita is a very nice looking woman, and maybe it is just my monitor or the shadows from the filming, but do you think she badly needs her upper lip waxed?
I will get round to publishing my review of her Moscow Nights one day and I do like the Apple Mac advert she did, even though I am not a fan of Apple and all their conformists (to conform is the greatest sin of a free man) aka fans.

The video has many highlights including a car which in had electric windows which was the height of technological advancement with an almost invisible chauffeur, who incidentally doesn’t get asked for his passport. However, when Elton John hands over his passport he is still wearing the same clothes as the picture in it and it ruins the image that he is a rich westerner offering to save this repressed female when he can only afford one set of clothes.

The East Germans, who seem very tolerant of people taking photos at the border crossing, refuse Elton Johns entry to the East allowing the video to play a dream sequence as the music goes instrumental. This dream sequence which highlights the riches of the West that Nikita can attain by fleeing to Elton. These include some badly dressed dancing underneath a disco-ball, watching Watford (a town which makes East Berlin seem like a paradise) play football, playing chess, where she has Tintin hair, and where Elton is marked by the queen, revealing yet again his sexuality – yes Elton you are gay, you don’t have to keep reminding us and I wonder whether he is thought of nowadays as firstly being gay or as a musician? I love Queen, and I never think of Freddie Mercury being gay first then a musician, rather just a musician, why does your sexuality have to define who you are Elton rather than your music?

This dream sequence continues with some truly awful garments as they play 10 pin bowling. The clothing in this video is so bad that for some reason the very old children’s TV show rent-a-ghost kept on popping into my head.
The lyrics are:

Hey Nikita is it cold
In your little corner of the world
You could roll around the globe
And never find a warmer soul to know

And if there comes a time
Guns and gates no longer hold you in
And if you’re free to make a choice
Just look towards the west and find a friend

Lets be honest, the video is a bit crap, the song gets tedious after a minute or so and instead of watching the video, waste your time by watching this instead: