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The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
In 1964, The Beatles starred in their first feature film A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester. It was all shot in black and white, it included comedic and dialogue sequences with musical ones. It was also very loosely directed. -
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones appeared in many promotional videos in the 1960's, yet there key one they did was in 1964 for 'Not Fade Away' which featured the band ona beach miming the lyrics. -
The Beatles - Help!
The Beatles' created there second feature Help! in 1965. It was a much more lavish affair, filmed in colour in London and on international locations. -
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
An attempt to present performance and narrative to the audience, the clip shows Dylan down a back alley shuffling cue cards. It was filmed by D. A. Pennebaker and was featured in Pennebaker's Dylan film documentary 'Don't Look Back'. -
The Kinks - Dead End Street
The Kinks made one of the first plot promo clips in the UK for a song. The song was "Dead End Street" by The Kinks a minature comic movie was made for it, yet the BBC reportedly refused to air the clip because it was in 'poor taste'. -
Jumping Jack Flash
In 1968 three clips were released for there new single 'Jumping Jack Flash', the clips consisted of the band playing live, another clip of them heavily dressed in make up and one other with them miming in black and white this shows the start of music videos. -
Sparks
In 1974 the Sparks filmed a promo video for there latest single 'This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us'. -
Queen
In 1975 the band 'Queen' demanded Bruce Gowers to make them a promo for there new song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' it was shown on Top of the Pops also it was the first promo to be entirely shot and edited on videotape. -
David Bowie
David Bowie scored his first UK number one in nearly a decade in 1980 thanks to director David Mallet's eye catching promo for "Ashes to Ashes". -
Bruce Springsteen
1980 was a time ofchange for music promos/videos they began to explore and expand the form and style of the genre, using more effects in their videos, mixing film and video, and maybe even adding a storyline to the video. Sometimes the artist was not even shown in the video! An example of this was Bruce Springsteens 'Atlantic City'. -
Michael Jackson
In 1983 the most iconic, successful, and influential video to this day was released by Michael Jackson for his song 'Thriller'. The video was nearly 14 minutes long!! -
Dire Straits
Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" had a music video which used computer animation making the song an international hit. -
Michael and Janet Jackson
Michael and Janet Jackson produced the most expensive music video in history costing them $7 million to produce for there single 'Scream' -
YouTube
2005 saw the launch of the website Youtube, which was soon to be a hit and make music videos ever so more popular and the norm for an artist to have a music video. -
Weezer
The 2008 video for Weezer's "Pork and Beans" included at least 20 YouTube celebrities making it a massive youtube hit. -
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga's music video for 'Bad Romance' made headlines by becoming the most-viewed video on YouTube and whole internet of all time, with 130 million views!
