Synopsis

A lovelorn man drives his battered convertible through a dust storm to a small-town cafe, hoping to reunite with his girlfriend. Instead, he receives a Dear John letter and endures a string of comic misfortunes, including a parking ticket, a ruined car and an odd night at a drive-in theater. He leaves town by bus, surrounded by eccentric passengers and cameoing Supertramp members. The story eventually turns hopeful when he encounters his former love again beneath a yellow umbrella.

Factoids & Trivia

• The promotional video was released in November 1982, shortly after the single appeared on the album "...Famous Last Words..."

• The drive-in theater is showing a film titled "Famous Last Words," directly echoing the album's title and turning the video into an extended piece of album promotion.

• All five members of Supertramp appear in character rather than simply performing the song. John Helliwell plays a street saxophonist, Dougie Thomson drives the bus, Roger Hodgson is a guitar-playing passenger, and Rick Davies and Bob Siebenberg appear as pickup-truck passengers.

• The video is notable for its deliberately eccentric, almost surreal comedy, which contrasts with the song's melancholy lyrics and upbeat pop arrangement.

• The song closes with an interpolation of the traditional nursery rhyme "It's Raining, It's Pouring."

• "It's Raining Again" became one of the band's major commercial successes, reaching No. 1 in France and helping "...Famous Last Words..." earn gold status in both the United States and the United Kingdom.