Notes on 'Video killed the radio star: The history of the Pop music video.' Channel 4 (1999)
1923 - First films with sound. (The Talkies)
1950 - Cotume and choreography, musicals were a great inspiration and colour T.V was first made.
1959 - "Blackboard jungle" "Mop Top" rock and roll. People like Elvis Presley were huge at the time.
1967 - The Beatles - Strawberry Field. This is more of a filmed piece of the band and not considered to be a real music video.
1975 - Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen was the first ever official music video. It was made because it was seen as too complex to be performed on stage and they wanted to bring the album cover to life. It was filmed in around three hours and cost £3500 to make.
1980 - David Bowie and many other artists embraced the new music video. It was the age of new romantics and glamour.
David Bowie - Ashes to AshesDuran Duran - Planet earth
Adam and the ants - Stand and deliver
Robbie Williams - Millenium
Queen - Radio Gaga
Annie Lennox - Broken Glass
1979 - The first VJs (video DJs), followed by the launch of MTV in 1981 playing 'video killed the radio star' as the first song. But there were only 200 videos, not enough to devote a whole channel to. Eventually MTV were saved by the British, who embraced the idea.
Like Eurythmics and Toni Basil.
Tim Pope was the first ever music video director, he directed videos such as 'Talk Talk - It's My Life' which was the first music video not to centre around a performance of the song.
Bruce Springstein was not a fan of the music video as he thought it concentrated on the look of the artist and performance too much rather than just the music.
1983 - Michael Jackson ejoyed the making of music videos and made his own very original. The reason for the most popular video ever (Thriller) was that he wanted to become a werewolf and use monsters of some kind. He contracted the director of 'American Werewolf in London' to make this a reality. The video eventually cost around half a million dollars and was considered an event video. When the video was released it sent the single back up the charts.
Like Eurythmics and Toni Basil.
Tim Pope was the first ever music video director, he directed videos such as 'Talk Talk - It's My Life' which was the first music video not to centre around a performance of the song.
Bruce Springstein was not a fan of the music video as he thought it concentrated on the look of the artist and performance too much rather than just the music.
1983 - Michael Jackson ejoyed the making of music videos and made his own very original. The reason for the most popular video ever (Thriller) was that he wanted to become a werewolf and use monsters of some kind. He contracted the director of 'American Werewolf in London' to make this a reality. The video eventually cost around half a million dollars and was considered an event video. When the video was released it sent the single back up the charts.
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