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These dance scenes will take you back to the 80s. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most memorable choreographed sequences to emerge from what is arguab...
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- Madonna: Material Girl
- Pat Benatar: Love Is A Battlefield
- Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
- The Buggles: Video Killed The Radio Star
- David Bowie & Mick Jagger: Dancing in The Street
- Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams
- Ray Parker Jr.: Ghostbusters
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Two Tribes
- Propaganda: Dr. Mabuse
- Herbie Hancock: Rockit
Madonna channeled Marilyn Monroe in the iconic video to “Material Girl,” the Nile Rodgers’ produced song that crowned her the queen of pop in 1984. Taking its inspiration from the famous scene in the 1953 movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondeswhere Monroe sings “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend,” the video’s storyline depicts Madonna being pursued by a fi...
Brooklyn-born Pat Benatar’s feisty rock anthem “Love Is A Battlefield” inspired a Bob Giraldi video whose theme was empowerment and seeking liberation from oppressive forces. It shows Benatar leaving home after an angry confrontation with her controlling father and journeying to a big city where she ends up as a taxi dancer in a seedy club where wo...
The representation of reality and fantasy by the contrasting use of monochrome and color film is a cinematic trick that was popularized by the 1939 movie, The Wizard Of Oz. Director Brian Grant used the technique to good effect in his dazzling video for this Whitney Houston Grammy-winning hit, which contrasts the singer’s lonely life as a performer...
Before he became an influential record producer, Trevor Horn was one half of the British duo The Buggles, whose debut single “Video Killed The Radio Star” came out in late 1979 and was accompanied by a groundbreaking video which set the tone for how pop was visually represented in the next decade. It was shot by Australian director Russell Mulcahy,...
Martha & The Vandellas’ evergreen 60s Motown hit “Dancing In The Street” was revived as a duet by British rock titans Bowie and Jagger as a charity single to raise funds for Live Aid. They shot a no-frills video under the direction of David Mallet in London which sizzles with a manic energy, mainly thanks to a mullet-sporting Jagger, who jumps arou...
Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart’s synth-pop classic about the complex nature of human desire put Eurythmics on the map as an international act; their fame was accelerated by the song’s accompanying Chris Ashbrook-directed video, which was an MTV staple in the pioneering music channel’s early days. The video was famous for Lennox’s striking androgynou...
One of the big blockbuster movies of the 80s, the supernatural comedy Ghostbustersboasted a title song from R&B musician, Ray Parker Jr., whose catchy number haunted pop charts and dance floors around the world. In the tune’s spooky video, director Ivan Reitman depicted Parker as a spectral figure and used footage from the actual movie alongside CG...
Liverpool’s Frankie Goes To Hollywood caused a furor in the UK with their debut single, “Relax,” which was banned by the BBC for its purported sexual content. Their second single, a febrile hymn to nuclear Armageddon called “Two Tribes,” stoked controversy with its Cold War-inspired video, which depicted the US President Ronald Reagan and his USSR ...
This 80s music video feels more like a 1920s music video. A nefarious criminal mastermind with hypnotic powers, Dr. Mabuse was a fictional character who inspired German film director Fritz Lang to make three movies about him. He also influenced German synth pop group Propaganda’s debut single, “Dr. Mabuse,” whose dramatic video filmed at night by t...
As a musician, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock has always embraced technological innovation so it was no surprise when “Rockit,” his groundbreaking hip-hop-meets-techno-funk single launched perhaps the most futuristic 80s music video. The main focus of the video isn’t Hancock – whose head and hands are occasionally glimpsed on a TV set – but a manic ar...
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Mar 13, 2020 · While artists from Bob Dylan to Queen to The Beatles had flirted with music videos in the past, it wasn't until the 1980s that it was the musical tool to sell records. It could be argued that the '80s was the best decade when it came to flamboyant and fantastic music videos, and here are our absolute favourites:
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Feb 22, 2022 · The 50 Best Rock Videos Ever: 11 – 1. On August 1, 1981, the switch was flicked and the revolution began. “Ladies and gentlemen,” intoned a deep male voice, “rock’n’roll.”. That was the moment a brand new channel named MTV – short for Music Television – was launched in New Jersey.
- 20: Van Halen: Jump (1983) Though it sticks largely to a live-on-stage format, the video for Van Halen’s unstoppable pop-rock anthem Jump leaves little doubt over the band’s reputation as one of the most successful rock groups of their era.
- 19: Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (1987) Epitomising the glitz, glamour and over-the-top production values in vogue in the 80s, Whitney Houston’s video for I Wanna Dance With Somebody is a non-stop party from start to finish.
- 18: Run-DMC And Aerosmith: Walk This Way (1986) One of the most significant rap-rock crossovers, Walk This Way saw incendiary hip-hop trio Run-DMC team up with 70s rock stalwarts Aerosmith to create a music video in which their respective genres collided.
- 17: Duran Duran: Hungry Like The Wolf (1982) From dark caves to airy mountaintops, the music video for Duran Duran’s Hungry Like The Wolf single sees frontman Simon Le Bon channel his inner Indiana Jones, prowling around like a predator stalking his prey.
As the art of the music video evolved, some artists leaned a bit too far into the medium, trying to make mini-movies with their narrative clips. Others, meanwhile, arguably prioritized...
Nov 15, 2021 · Our updated list of the 100 greatest music videos of all time spans four decades and showcases the power and proficiency of the medium.
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