SPIN Magazine has compiled a list of some of the greatest moments in rock and roll history that they have covered,and among them at Number 17 is the infamous 1996 cover which featured only Gwen-and which partially inspired the video for Don’t Speak:
SPIN INSPIRES “DON’T SPEAK” VIDEO
SEPTEMBER 25, 1996
The hit ballad from No Doubt’s 1995 breakthrough Tragic Kingdom is famously about Gwen Stefani getting dumped by bassist Tony Kanal. But in its meta video, her bandmates are pushed aside so she can be shot solo for the cover of, er, Sungun. “Everyone just wants to focus on the girl,” she said in the November 1996 SPIN — which Stefani graces alone. “We’re getting over it.”