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1900: Edison invents the gramophone in the USA: first shift frommusic as a solely live and audiovisual experience to recordedaudio on various forms of disc
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1920s: Fischinger experiments with sound/vision synchronisation onfilm
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1927: First sound film, The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, USA)
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1930s: Creation of first ‘soundies’
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1939: Introduction of the Panarom
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1940s: Peak period of MGM Hollywood musical
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1954: Elvis Presley records That’s All Right (Mama)
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1960: Scopitone introduced in France
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1963: UK’s first music TV programme, Ready Steady Go (ITV)
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1964: Top of the Pops TV programme begins (BBC)The Beatles release the film and album, A Hard Day’s Night(Richard Lester, UK)
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1966: The Monkees’ TV show starts on NBC in the USA
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1967: The Beatles release TV promos for Penny Lane andStrawberry Fields Forever
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1975: Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody (Bruce Gowers)
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1977: Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, USA)
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1979: Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star (Russell Mulcahy)
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1980: David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes (David Mallet and David Bowie)
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1981: Pop Clips on Nickelodeon
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1981: MTV starts
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1981: Duran Duran: Girls on Film (Kevin Godley and Lol Creme
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1983: Michael Jackson: Thriller (John Landis)
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1983: Beginning of Country Music Television (CMT)
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1984: Music Box starts in Europe
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1984: MTV Video Music Awards launched
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1985: VH1 begins
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1985: MTV taken over by Viacom
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1985: Live Aid
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1986: Dire Straits: Money for Nothing (Steve Barron) is top video
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1987: MTV-Europe (MTV-E) launched, broadcasting to 1.6m homesPeter Gabriel: Sledgehammer (Stephen Johnson), wins bestdirector award
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1988: MTV-Europe achieves 3.5m subscribers
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1989: MTV-Europe reaches 6.7m homes
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1989: Live broadcast from Moscow Peace Festival
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1989: Madonna: Express Yourself (David Fincher ), wins bestdirector award
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1990: Madonna: Vogue (David Fincher), wins best director award
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1990: Launch of MTV-Unplugged
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1991: Madonna: Justify My Love (Jean-Baptiste Mondino
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1992:MTV launches The Real World, a fly-on-the-wall documentary following the lives of seven people sharing a New York loft
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1993: MTV launches TV series Beavis and Butthead
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1994: REM: Everybody Hurts (Jake Scott), wins best director award Launch of VH1 in UK Launch of MTV-Europe Music Awards
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1997: MTV UK and Ireland launches as stand-alone channel via Sky
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1999: Fatboy Slim: Praise You (Spike Jonze), wins best directoraward; Napster begins.
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2000: Launch of Jackass
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2001: Launch of MTV Dance
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2001: iTunes launches, ipods go on sale
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2003: The Pirate Bay goes online. iTunes store opens; MySpace enters cyberspace; Last FM begins broadcasting
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2004: Facebook goes live
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2005: YouTube starts; The Hype Machine blogs; Guitar Hero slides in
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2006: Google buys YouTube
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2007: iPhone hits the market
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2008: Amazon sells MP3s; Spotify live
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2010: Bandcamp gains prominence