The music video of the song is set in 1964 and features
Robert Jezek as a
United States Air Force pilot flying a British-made
Hawker Hunter fighter plane named the Bird of Prey. It opens with the famous
"Daisy" television commercial, which was used as a campaign for President
Lyndon B. Johnson during this year, showing the pilot sitting in a room watching this commercial. He drinks a glass of water which has something bubbling in it, intercut with an image of a brain and a piece of paper with text describing a chemical. An identification form with Fatboy Slim's real name on it, (Colonel)
Norman Cook is seen. As the drug comes on, he imagines that he's flying the plane, and he eventually ejects and parachutes down, and then the hallucination stops. The actual song is playing during the flight sequence. Near the end of the video one can see the word "
MKULTRA", which was a
CIA-operated
top secret confidential government project concerning
mind control human experimentation, including using chemicals on test subjects (people) as truth serums. Also visible is another identification form with another name on it,
Al Hubbard.
Production The video was directed by Blue Source (Rob Leggatt and Leigh Marling), and produced by Blink. The producers had wanted a
Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, to emulate the final scene in
The Right Stuff where
Chuck Yeager is seen to take a Starfighter and loses control, with him finally ejecting; the pilot in the video also ejects.
Filming The filming took place at
Duxford Aerodrome, and was produced by Flight Logistics of
Borehamwood, who used an
Aérospatiale Corvette to film the airborne scenes from.
Aircraft The
Hawker Hunter T8
XF357/
G-BWGL, provided by
Ray Hanna's Old Flying Machine Company, is shown in a USAF livery which was changed for filming using removable decals. The same company also supplied aircraft for
Travis's
Writing to Reach You in 1999. The silver colour scheme was chosen to represent T.7
XJ615, the Hunter trainer prototype. It is an 11-tonne Hunter T.8C with a
Rolls-Royce Avon 122 engine. The aircraft was built as a Hunter F4 by
Hawker Aircraft at
Blackpool in 1956, and served with
130 Squadron at
RAF Bruggen, then was converted to a T8 in 1959 by
Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft at Coventry. The aircraft stayed with the Royal Navy (
Fleet Requirements and Aircraft Direction Unit or FRADU) until 16 May 1995. The aircraft has been with the Dutch Hawker Hunter Foundation at
Leeuwarden Air Base since 15 May 2007, and has the Dutch serial N-321 painted in
Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force colours. ==First version==