What a sunset? What is Twilight?
Beyond the scientific definitions, it is unnecessary to provide a groped response. The sunset and dusk are the soul that everyone feels in his own way.
Yet anyone who has managed to capture the full essence, emotional these particular times of day.
If you ask me what it meant to live early adolescence in the early eighties, what it was before sunset and at dusk, I could not help but remind you that the video of Steve Barron.
Barron was one of the encoders of the modern language of the video clips: his work for "Steppin 'Out" Joe Jackson is at the service of a great song - contained in an album as great if not indispensable, Night & Day - perfectly communicating the "full meaning" time of dusk and the unfolding of a beautiful night in New York.
Then there's "Rosanna" by Toto that can like and dislike, but whose video is an invaluable document for understanding how the magic of sunset and twilight - filtered through a devastated urban landscape in the expansion phase, a prelude to the future - be perceived quarter of a century ago, affecting the visions of the collective.
The first step of the instrumental piece made history and is a sort of Proustian madeleine for anyone who lived through that period.
Enjoy.
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