Leave It (partially found series of Yes music videos; 1984)
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Screenshot of "Version 11" of Leave It.
Status: Partially Found
In 1983, the British progressive rock band Yes released its eleventh album 90125, reaching 3 million copies sold in the US alone. After the success with their number-one hit single Owner of a Lonely Heart, the band released their second single Leave It in February 1984. The single peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 3 on the Top Album Rock Tracks chart. Unconventionally, Accompanying the song was eighteen music videos to the song. The videos were all shown with MTV announcing with a version that was about to be played on MTV. After a while, Version 11 of the series was declared the "official video" to Leave It and the other videos fell into obscurity.
Background
The Leave It videos were directed by Lol Creme and Kevin Godley, also known as the rock duo Godley & Creme. All variants of the video has the subjects upside down. MTV made a documentary of the making of the music videos.
Availability
As of 2022, six versions of the video have been found. Version 11 has been the official music video to the song, included on their Greatest Video Hits DVD and is on the Yes Official YouTube channel. Version 1 was posted on YouTube by Anthony Riddle in 2019, sourced from a re airing on the British TV station Vintage TV. Version 7 has also been found from a 1984 MTV broadcast, having been posted on the Internet Archive by Mickeys Tape Collection on November 2nd, 2020. And the video itself posted on Youtube by Spid on September 11, 2022. Versions 8, 9, & 10 were posted by MusicVideoTime on Twitter and the Internet Archive on October 18, 2022
Some of the other versions of Leave It were shown in the MTV documentary. However, it is unknown which version is which due to a contest being held by MTV at the time to have fans guess how many versions of the video were made.
Versions
| # | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Members of Yes upside down | Found |
| 2 | Cuts to Trevor Rabin's face for two lines[1] | Partially Found |
| 3 | Has Tony Kaye wearing a different colored tie[1] | Lost |
| 4 | Unknown | Lost |
| 5 | Unknown | Lost |
| 6 | Unknown | Lost |
| 7 | Only Jon Anderson in the video | Found |
| 8 | Different group of people in video | Found |
| 9 | Starts with a pan around the studio to show crew | Found |
| 10 | More movement with the band (Swaying, taking a bow) | [https://archive.org/details/yes-leave-it-version-10Found |
| 11 | Official Music Video | Found |
| 12 | Unknown | Lost |
| 13 | Unknown | Lost |
| 14 | Unknown | Lost |
| 15 | Unknown | Lost |
| 16 | Unknown | Lost |
| 17 | Unknown | Lost |
| 18 | Unknown | Lost |