A new lyric video is launched yesterday for the Rolling Stones’ 1966 classic and chart smash ‘19th Nervous Breakdown.’ It coincides with the 53rd anniversary of the song’s first release.
The clip is inspired by the Op art style, so named by Time magazine in 1964 to describe a type of optical art based on optical illusions. The artform was at its peak as the Stones’ single came to prominence, and by playing with the viewer’s perception of reality, the video complements the theme of the Jagger-Richards composition and its theme of a fractured mind.