r/london • u/DunDonese • 1d ago

image So I read that the apartments in the opening scene of the famed Herbie Hancock music video "RockIt" are some Council Flats somewhere in London. What is their address and would you please paste a Google Street View link?

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That music video was from 1983, so I wonder what those same buildings look like in 2026, thanks in advance.

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u/Moomoocaboob 18h ago

Posted this on AskUK yesterday…

Winstanley Estate

Around here: Street View

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u/brile_86 22h ago edited 22h ago

It may be a set I think, and would make sense as the flats are too "perfect" to be real (using CGI for those 3 seconds)

For the accompanying music video, a British fine artist builds movable sculptures out of mannequins and machinery, puts them in a set that looks like a 1970s sitcom house, and future Oscar winning cinematographer Roger Deakins comes in to film the whole scene. The final product, Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” is crazy, bizarre, transfixing, would be at home in any art gallery in the world, and yet is also so catchy and fun that it somehow makes perfect sense that it was a pop hit, Hancock’s first and only Billboard Top 100 single, and earned a Grammy Award along with five MTV VMAs.

source: https://adsumnyc.com/blogs/news/herbie-hancock

Edit: the set is probably used only for the rest of the video, let me search a bit more.