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- The Police - Every Breath You Take. The Story of... 'Every Breath You Take' by The Police. Dark and moody, this black-and-moody video perfectly summed up this song's tale of dangerous 'love', complete with Sting looking rather menacing indeed.
- Genesis - Land of Confusion. Genesis - Land Of Confusion (Official Music Video) Genesis as Spitting Image puppets? What more do you want? Plus, it acts as a mini-history lesson of what was going on at the height of the Cold War in the Thatcher/Reagan era.
- Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters. Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters. This was the era where movie theme songs were taken seriously. Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman also helmed the song's music video, getting the main cast members including Bill Murray to dance with Ray Parker Jr at the end.
- Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It. So simple, but so effective. This video saw a passionate Tina Turner walking down the street in a leather miniskirt, shot in New York City during the spring of 1984.
Apr 2, 2020 · 100 Songs That Kids in the ’80s Grew Up With. YouTube user “Some random guy” put together the excellent video below featuring 100 songs that kids in the ’80s grew up with. The list of songs runs from pop classics like Prince’s ‘1999’ to hard rock ballads like Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Patience’ to modern rock hits like Depeche Mode ...
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- Kylie Minogue. Pop princess Kylie Minogue signed to to PWL (Pete Waterman Limited, the home of Stock Aitken Waterman) in 1987, releasing her first studio album ‘Kylie’ the next year.
- Jason Donovan. Fellow Aussie Jason Donovan’s debut album ‘Ten Good Reasons’ was one of the highest-selling albums of 1989 with UK sales of over 1.5 million.
- Bananarama. Bananarama’s success on both pop and dance charts has earned them a listing in ‘The Guinness Book of Records’ as the all-female group with the most global chart entries.
- Rick Astley. Rick Astley’s 1987 song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ went to No.1 in 25 countries and won the 1988 Brit Award for Best British Single.
- 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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- Visage – “Fade to Grey” (Polydor, 1980) At first glance, this clip might appear to be the second music video ever shot, following immediately on the heels of the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”.
- ELO and Olivia Newton John – “Xanadu” (Universal, 1980) Ok, here’s a shocker. At the time, this cheesy, over-the-top production number had shark jumping all over it.
- Kim Wilde – “Kids in America” (EMI, 1982) For being such an iconic song about kids living in America, Kim was a Brit. One of the most recognizable of the initial wave of ’80s pop hits, this clip essentially serves as a template for a first-wave video.
- Thomas Dolby – “Europa and the Pirate Twins” (EMI, 1984) Thomas Dolby was also on the leading edge, actually using his own interest in technology to burnish an image as the mad scientist in “She Blinded Me with Science” and using an array of the slickest tricks for “Hyperactive”.
Nov 11, 2022 · 12: Guns N’ Roses: Sweet Child O’ Mine (1987) Arguably the biggest surprise success story of MTV’s late-80s period, the music video for Sweet Child O’ Mine, by Guns N’ Roses, single-handedly killed off the era’s fad for cheesy hair-metal, staking its claim among the best 80s songs as it did so.
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