Earth Day International chooses
"The Eleventh Hour" as official video


The official Earth Day video is "The Eleventh Hour" by Real Music's recording artist
Mars Lasar. Earth Day International, the UN sanctioned, non-profit organization
which co-orinates activities by environmental groups in more than 100 countries,
will debut the 4 1/2 minute clip during a press conference aboard the Queen Mary
on Earth Day, April 22. The clip is also being distributed to U.N. channels,
environmental groups, music video channels and other broadcast outlets. Lasar,
an Australian keyboardist and composer, created the clip with filmmaker Sam
Nicholson, whose credits include "Cyborg," "Star Trek," and Millennium," as well as
videos for Cher, Aerosmith and Poison. "The Eleventh Hour," video was adapted
for EDI with opening and closing "bookend messages," from the late anthropologist
Margaret Mead, and Maurice Strong, secretary general of last year's Earth Summit
in Rio. (4/20/93)