The History of Music Videos

Task: Create your own timeline of the history of music videos. Write more extensively about the key moments in time. Important items to include in the timeline would be:

The Invention of the gramophone

The first film with sound

MGM musicals

Elvis Presley

The first ever UK music TV programme ‘Ready Steady Go’

Top of the Pops

Queen: Bohemian Rapsody

The launch of MTV

Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’

MTV Europe

VH1

Madonna’s ‘Vogue’ by the influential director David Fincher

REM with ‘Everybody Hurts’, directed by Jake Scott, wins best director award

Fatboy Slim with ‘Praise You’ wins best director award for the influential Spike Jonze

EMAP (music magazine publisher) launches 4 music channels – more channels follow (BskyB, Channel U, The Vault and Chart Show FM, Classic FM and nine channels from Viacom who developed MTV and Zee music. .

This amount of channels created fragmentation resulting in MTV getting sponsorship to launch their own programmes.