Synopsis

Suede perform amid a stark, mostly black-and-white series of surreal images. The band members appear in an empty studio while the video cuts between unsettling tableaux, including Bernard Butler suspended upside down with his guitar and Brett Anderson shown gagged. Brief shots of two people poised on the roof of a tall building are mixed with New York imagery, including the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center. The result is an intentionally cryptic, theatrical video whose ominous visuals sit uneasily beside the song's sweeping romanticism.

Factoids & Trivia

• The promotional video was filmed at Riverside Studios in London.

• The black-and-white presentation and abrupt symbolic inserts were central to the video's visual style, including shots of New York landmarks and two apparent jumpers on a rooftop.

• Suede were notably unhappy with the finished video. In commentary included with the band's video archive, Brett Anderson jokes about the production's "meaningless symbolism" and briefly walks out before returning after the video has ended.

• The band particularly disliked the images of Bernard Butler hanging upside down and Anderson being gagged, feeling that those ideas did not fit the emotional character of the song.

• "Stay Together" was released on February 14, 1994, and became Suede's joint-highest-charting UK single, reaching No. 3. It was also the final Suede single released while Butler was still in the band.