Monday 24 October 2011

Music Video History Timeline

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c1900Edison invents the gramophone in the USA: first shift from music as a solely live
and audiovisual experience to recorded audio on various forms of disc
1920sFischinger experiments with sound/vision synchronisation on film
1927First sound film The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, USA) 
1930sCreation of first 'soundies'
1939Introduction of the Panarom
1940sPeak period of MGM Hollywood musical
1954Elvis Presley records That's All Right (Mama)
1960Scopitone introduced in France
1963UK's first music TV programme, Ready Steady Go (ITV)
1964Top of the Pops TV programme begins (BBC)                                                        
The Beatles releasethe film and album, A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, UK)
1966The Monkees' TV show starts on NBC in the USA
1967The Beatles release TV promos for Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever 
1975Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
1977Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, USA)
1979Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star (Russel Mulcahy)
1980David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes (David Mallet and David Bowie)
1981Pop Clips
Nickolodeon               
MTV Starts
Duran Duran: Girls on Film (Kevin Godley and Lol Creme)
1983Michael Jackson:Thriller (John Landis)   
Beginning of Country Music Television (CMT)
1984Music Box starts in Europe          
MTV Video Music Awards launched                                 
1985VH1 begins                    
MTV taken over by Viacom                                         
Live Aid
1986Dire Straits: Money for Nothing (Steve Barron) is top video
1987MTV-Europe (MTV_E) launched, broadcasting to 1.6m homes            
Perter Gabriel: Sledgehammer (Stephen Johnson), wins best director award
1988MTV-Europe achieves 3.5 m subscribers
1989MTV-Europe reaches 6.7m homes                     
Live broadcast from Moscow Peace Festival                                            
Madonna: Express Yourself (David Fincher), wins best director award
1990Madonna: Vogue (David Fincher), wins best director award   
Launch of MTV-Unplugged
1991Madonna: Justify My Love (Jean-Basptiste Mondino)
1992MTV launches The Real World, a fly-on-the-wall documentary following the lives of
seven people sharing a New York loft
1993MTV launches TV series Beavis and Butthead
1994REM: Everybody Hurts (Jake Scott), wins best director award     
Launch of VH1 in the UK                        
Launch of MTV Music Awards
1997MTV UK and Ireland launches as stand-alone channel
1998Launch of Celebrity Deathmatch
1999Fatboy Slim: Praise You(Spike Jonze), wins best director award
2000Launch of Jackass
2001Launch of MTV Dance




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