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Edison invents the gramophone in the USA: first shift from music as a solely live and audiovisual experience to record audio on various forms of disc
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Fischinger experiments with sound/vision synchronisation on film
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First sound film, The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, USA)
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Creation of the ‘soundies’
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Introduction of the Panarom, this was a massive projector
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Peak period of MGM Hollywood musical
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Elvis Presley records That’s All Right (Mama)
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The Scopitone, which is a type of jukebox, was introduced in France
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UK’s first music TV programme, Ready Steady Go (ITV)
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Top of the Pops TV programme begins (BBC)
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The Beatles release the film and album, A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, UK)
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The Monkees’ TV show starts on NBC in the USA
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The Beatles release TV promos for Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever
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Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody (Bruce Gowers)
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Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, USA)
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Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star (Russell Mulcahy)
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David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes (David Mallet and David Bowie)
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Pop Clips on Nickelodeon, here we see tapping into the consumer audience, targeting a younger generation
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MTV starts
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Duran Duran: Girls on Film (Kevin Godley and Lol Creme)
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Michael Jackson: Thriller (john Landis)
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Beginning of Country Music Television (CMT), expanding to wider genres
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Music Box starts in Europe
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MTV Video Music Awards launched
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VH1 begins; the focus starts to become more on the video instead of the music, more money is being put into the industry
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MTV taken over by Viacom
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Live Aid
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Dire Straits: Money for Nothing (Steve Barron) is top video
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MTV-Europe (MTV-E) launched, broadcasting to 1.6 million homes
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Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer (Stephen Johnson), wins best director award
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MTV-Europe achieves 3.5 million subscribers
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MTV-Europe reaches 6.7 million homes
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Live broadcast from Moscow Peace Festival
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Madonna: Express Yourself (David Fincher), wins best director award
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Madonna: Vogue (David Fincher), wins best director award
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Launch of MTV-Unplugged
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Madonna: Justify My Love (Jean-Baptiste Mondino)
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REM: Everybody Hurts (Jake Scott), wins best director award
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Launch of VH1 in UK
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Launch of MTV-Europe Music Awards
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MTV UK and Ireland launches as stand-alone channel
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Fatboy Slim: Praise you (Spike Jonze), wins best director award
