 performed a rough version of the song on the NBC television show "Late Night with David Letterman" on October 6, 1983—before the song even had a title—in what was the band's first U.S. network television appearance.The video, directed by Howard Libov, was filmed at the Reflection Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina during the recording of "Reckoning" there, and first aired in June 1984.It featured the members of the band playing their instruments behind white screens (gobos) in an otherwise empty room, with Michael Stipe singing in the foreground.