Video: Girls & Boys

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1986: Mountains ◄

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► 1986: Anotherloverholenyohead

Girls & Boys

Music Video details

First aired:	Week of 7 July 1986 (MTV)
Producer(s):	Information needed
Director:	Prince
Related home video/DVD:	The Story So Far... Under The Cherry Moon (DVD release)
First (Commercially) Released:	24 August 2004

Awards
Date	Institution, Country	Award
This music video has not received any awards in the USA

Girls & Boys is a Prince and the Revolution video released for broadcast and to promote the single.

The video is made up of material that was shot for Under The Cherry Moon and used in the first minute of the video. It is interspersed with shots of the (expanded) Revolution who enter the party and start performing the song with Prince. Scenes that were used in the movie Under The Cherry Moon were filmed on the last two days of shooting at Les Salons De La Rotonde in Beaulieu-sur-Mer in the south of France. The outside of Les Salons De La Rotonde can be seen as the facade of the 'Le Pavillon" restaurant' in the film. All shots with members of expanded Revolution (who were not featured as characters in the movie) were filmed on 22 November 1985. The shooting was following the wrap-party of Under The Cherry Moon at Le Grand Escurial in Nice, the day before.

Susannah Melvoin and members of the expanded Revolution, including Eric Leeds, Miko Weaver as well as Wally Safford and Greg Brooks (together with Under The Cherry Moon co-star Jerome Benton known as 'the brothers') were flown in for the shooting of this black and white performance video.

Shooting Information

Shooting Sessions
Date	Location	Additional info
20 November 1985	Les Salons De La Rotonde, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France	Under The Cherry Moon shooting
22 November 1985	Les Salons De La Rotonde, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France	Footage with members of the expanded Revolution
Cast
Prince Bobby Z. Brownmark Wendy Melvoin Matt Fink Lisa Coleman Miko Weaver Wally Safford Greg Brooks Jerome Benton Eric Leeds Susannah Melvoin Kristin Scott-Thomas (material used is from Under The Cherry Moon scenes) Alexa Fioroni - dancer Azouz Saieb - security guard Maurice Lenorman - Maitre d'hôtel Nicolas Monard - photographer Roland Dechemilly - older date Valerie Rabatel - receptionist 100 guests 12 Waiters
Crew
Prince - director Michael Ballhaus - cinematographer Mishka Cheyko - first assistant director Marc Jenny - second assistant director David M. Dunlap - first assistant camera Florian Ballhaus - assistant camera Jan Sebastian Ballhaus - assistant camera Heinz Sottung - key grip Michel Ferry - second assistant director M.F. Bernstein Earl Jones - hair Robyn Lynch - make-up Daniel Brisseau (and his crew) - sound mixer Rachel Griffiths - script supervisor Jean-Yves Asselin - location manager Two policemen

Versions

Released Versions

Title	Length	Released	Version	Additional info
Girls & Boys	3:57	The Story So Far... (1986) Under The Cherry Moon (2004 DVD release) Official YouTube Prince channel Released for sale as separate track on iTunes (2017)

Additional Information

	See Also	Quotation & triva

	Girls & Boys Girls & Boys (single)	The video was nominated in Best Video category at the 7th Minnesota Music Awards (on 16 April 1987). This is one of the rare videos released by Prince shot outside of the United States, the others being: America, Mountains, U Got The Look (also in France), The Continental (Japan), Chelsea Rodgers and The NPG’s Come On (UK), Te Amo Corazón (Morroco) and Somewhere Here On Earth (Czech Republic). The video was first aired on MTV on the same week as the video for Anotherloverholenyohead.

	References
	The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)