Synopsis

The Fixx perform inside a stark, surreal series of tunnels and laboratory-like spaces. Adam Woods peers through a microscope as the video shifts into abstract corridors where Cy Curnin moves through changing visual environments, including a brightly lit tube and a blue passage shared with a Doberman pinscher. Images of dogs, graffiti, a geisha figure, and rushing paper add to the clip's dreamlike, disconnected atmosphere. The band eventually appears together in the tunnel, reinforcing the song's theme of consequences unfolding through a chain of events.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was released in 1983 to promote "One Thing Leads to Another," the second single from the album "Reach the Beach."

• Its central visual motif is a circular tunnel or tube, an image that gives the performance footage a stylized, almost laboratory-like setting rather than presenting the band in a conventional concert environment.

• The wrist shackle seen on the laboratory wall also appears on the cover of "Reach the Beach," creating a visual connection between the album artwork and the promotional film.

• The song's lyrics were described by vocalist Cy Curnin as an indictment of dishonest politicians, while the video presents that subject indirectly through fragmented, symbolic imagery rather than a literal political narrative.

• The single became The Fixx's biggest commercial success, reaching No. 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 in Canada.

• The clip was part of the early MTV-era campaign that helped turn The Fixx from a British new wave band into a major US act.