Pink Floyd Video

[JoJo]

This doesn't jump out at you as a clue, so I'm putting it here. Still it could be something, Arnold Layne steals clothes from a clothesline to to get a different "look". First, the lyrics:

Arnold Layne

by Syd Barrett

Arnold Layne had a strange hobby
Collecting clothes
Moonshine washing line
They suit him fine
On the wall hung a tall mirror
Distorted view, see through baby blue
Oh, Arnold Layne
It's not the same, takes two to know
Two to know, two to know
Why can't you see?
Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne

Now he's caught - a nasty sort of person.
They gave him time
Doors bang - chain gang - he hates it
Oh, Arnold Layne
It's not the same, takes two to know
Two to know, two to know
Why can't you see?
Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne

Don't do it again

And the video:

www.jojoplace.org/Shoebox/arnoldlayne1.mpg

[TotalInformation]

very evocative of the penny lane & sff promos -- with a dummy!

arnold layne... this was relased after sff/penny lane and before pepper

[Jai Guru Deva]

I too noticed that they seemed to mimick the Beatles. For example, when they're at the Beach running around or walking together off the dock and over the hill. Anything else one might interpret may be purely subjective, though... Consider the end where one might illustrate that the manikin is lieing on the ground like a corpse and they pick him up, remove the head and carry the him as would pallbearers. Or were they were just acting out a clever way to end the film...

[TotalInformation]

[JoJo]

TotalInformation said:

very evocative of the penny lane & sff promos -- with a dummy!

Also they jump out of a Beetle..(don't dismiss the obvious anyone)

[Doc]

How could that NOT be in some way, allusion to the Beatles?

Seems like these ideas go pretty far back......

But, is someone in prison? Or prison metaphor (they gave him time)
and all the women's cothes----just the idea of dressing up glam? or--something else.......

[fourthousandholes]

Arnold Layne video, with Bowie, link on the front page of the David Gilmour site at present:


www.davidgilmour.com/island.htm

[mysteryboy]

Syd is the one holding the head.
There is a rarer alternate video of "Arnold Layne" where Syd shouts the line" Why can't you see" standing in front of a river or bay.
Ever wonder why David Gilmour (Syd's replacement) was chosen to be in Faul's Return to the Cavern band?
Syd's last public words, the final sentence in a 1971 interview for Rolling Stone: "I am not anybody you think I am."