The music video, directed by Andy Morahan, starts with the band driving down the street in a red 1997 Hummer H1 when they get caught in a traffic jam. They then pull into a back alley, get out of the car, and begin to play the song on the street. The song that the band was listening to before the car jam was "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)", a song released when the late Bon Scott was a member of the band.
One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises great self-restraint in the expression of emotion. The phrase is most commonly heard as part of the idiom "keep a stiff upper lip", and has traditionally been used to describe an attribute of British people, who are sometimes perceived by other cultures as being unemotional. A sign of weakness is trembling of the upper lip, hence the saying keep a stiff upper lip. When a person's upper lip begins to tremble, it is one of the first signs that the person is scared or shaken by experiencing deep emotion.
It's perhaps surprising "that a phrase so strongly associated with the UK should have originated in America." One of the earliest known references to the phrase was in the Massachusetts Spy, June 1815:
"I kept a stiff upper lip, and bought [a] license to sell my goods."
Poems that feature a memorable evocation of Victorian cold-bloodedness and a stiff upper lip include Rudyard Kipling's "If—" and W. E. Henley's "Invictus". The phrase became symbolic of the British people, and particularly of those who were products of the English public school system during the Victorian era. Such schools aimed to instill a code of discipline and devotion to duty in their students through competitive sports, corporal punishments and cold showers.
Stiff Upper Lip is an album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was the band's thirteenth internationally released studio album and the fourteenth to be released in Australia. The album was co-produced by George Young, older brother of Malcolm and Angus Young. The album was re-released in the US on 17 April 2007 as part of the AC/DC Remasters series. It was re-released in the UK in 2005.
Background
The Young brothers began writing songs for what would become Stiff Upper Lip in the summer of 1997 in London and the Netherlands with Malcolm on guitar and Angus on drums, and by February 1998 the songs were completed. The band had planned on recording a new album with CanadianBruce Fairbairn, who had produced the enormously successful The Razors Edge and AC/DC Live, but Fairbairn died in May 1999. The Youngs turned to their older brother George, who had produced 1988's Blow Up Your Video as well as the band's early albums with Harry Vanda, and Mike Fraser, who had co-produced 1995's Ballbreaker, to complete Stiff Upper Lip.
The singer-songwriter and actress has revealed that she was an extra in the Australian rock band's music video for their 2000s song Stiff Upper Lip ... "You want to hear something funny? I was in the Stiff Upper Lip video," she said.
Is it possible for a movie to win Best Picture simply for one song? Chariots of Fire may have been an impossibly British, stiff-upper-lip story of two long-distance runners battling anti-Semitism, but ...
The band opened for the first time ever with the song "If you WantBlood (You Got It)." ... The band also played "Stiff Upper Lip" in a live show for the first time since 2003, and "Riff Raff" for the first time with Johnson since 1996.
Those included “Stiff Upper Lip” (first time since 2003), “Dog Eat Dog” (first time with Johnson since 2009), and “Riff Raff” (first time with Johnson since 1996).
— Coloring for grown ups will be held Tuesdays, Oct. 3 and 17 from 2-4 p.m ... 3 ... 2 ... 3 ... The event will feature songs, stories, poems and treats ... Stiff Upper LipsBook and MovieSeries ... The event features songs and stories for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
... guitar riffs, jaunty horns and a chipper tempo, transforming something plaintive and vulnerable into a resilient song about keeping a stiff upper lip.Crosby, Stills & Nash – Wooden Ships (1969).
6 ... “Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”. Britons also surprised themselves and the world, casting off their reputation as a nation of stiff upper lips, with a deluge of public tears over the death of Princess Diana in 1997 ... ___.
6 ... “Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”. Britons also surprised themselves and the world, casting off their reputation as a nation of stiff upper lips, with a deluge of public tears over the death of Princess Diana in 1997 ... ___.
6 ... “Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”. Britons also surprised themselves and the world, casting off their reputation as a nation of stiff upper lips, with a deluge of public tears over the death of Princess Diana in 1997 ... ___.
6 ... “Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”. Britons also surprised themselves and the world, casting off their reputation as a nation of stiff upper lips, with a deluge of public tears over the death of Princess Diana in 1997 ... ___.
6 ... “Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”. Britons also surprised themselves and the world, casting off their reputation as a nation of stiff upper lips, with a deluge of public tears over the death of Princess Diana in 1997 ... ___.
