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Edguy - All The Clowns

Music Video | 2001
ArtistEdguy
SongAll The Clowns
DirectorMatthias Edlinger
Director of PhotographyMatthias Fuchs
IntroNo
OutroNo
Production Companylucie_p
LabelAFM Records
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - 16mm (all types)/ S16

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Synopsis

Edguy's "All The Clowns" is primarily a performance video rather than a conventional narrative. The band plays through the song in a straightforward studio-style setting, with Tobias Sammet and the other musicians presented in close-ups and group shots. The visual concept is built around the song's clown imagery: the members wear bright red clown noses, adding a deliberately playful touch to lyrics about lost innocence, conformity, and the pressures of adult life. The result balances the song's reflective message with Edguy's characteristic sense of humor.

Factoids & Trivia

  • "All The Clowns" was Edguy's first promotional music video and accompanied the release of the 2001 album "Mandrake."
  • The red clown noses became the video's most recognizable visual joke and helped establish the playful side of Edguy's image during the "Mandrake" era.
  • Tobias Sammet later described the clip as one of the band's more successful videos. He noted that it was not especially funny, but considered it comparatively professional.
  • The song's theme centers on the disappearance of childhood wonder and the way everyday life can turn people toward conformity and emotional restraint.
  • The video was included on Edguy-related home-video and compilation releases, including "Hall of Flames," "Gold Edition, Vol. II," and the DVD material associated with "Monuments."
  • Official uploads of the clip appeared online years after the original release, including postings by AFM Records and Edguy in 2010.

Lyrics

When you're walking down the empty road
Feel like creeping, crawling, cold and bare
And you're afraid of Mistery Scary-face
Don't turn around since you may find him there

A fire of hope has turned into smoke,
The child to a man
It's nothing but grey painting your way
And no one could ever tell...

(Refrão)

Tell me why all the clowns have gone
...
© Edguy - All The Clowns. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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