Matt Johnson for years so disliked the music video for the band’s iconic 1983 single “This Is the Day” that he says he insisted it be “withdrawn and banned from circulation.”
Now, some 40 years later, he’s softening his stance, and, in conjunction with the song’s appearance on the soundtrack to the just-released “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” he’s finally uploaded the Tony Dow-directed video — in sparkly 4K quality, no less — to The The’s official YouTube channel.
Johnson writes, in a message posted to Facebook earlier today, that he finally “can see the funny side of it — particularly my haircut and the way I’m self-consciously skulking around.”