Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Music Video History

1927 - The first ever sound film developed.

1964 - January 1st, and the first ever "Top of the Pops" was broadcast, however they did not start showing music videos until the 1970's.

Late 1960's - The Beatles were the first to create types of music videos. They were called TV promos and were basically the band singing their songs in different settings.

1975 - The first official music video release - Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody





1979 - MTV launches - First video played The Buggles Video Killed The Radio Star





1984 - Many iconic videos created by this time, which lead to the creation of the first music video award show by MTV.

No comments:

Post a Comment