A music video is a video which accompanies a song. Music videos are used to promote and sell a song or promote an artist. Music and moving images have long gone together, it had first been used in the 1920's and 1930's in experimental film.
Here is a copy of the timeline of a music video from Pete Fraiser's book:
- C1900 Edision invented the gramophone in the USA: this was the first shift from music as a solely live and audio-visional experience to recorded audio on various form of disc
- 1927 first sound film , The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, USA)
- 1963 The world's first music programme, Ready Steady Go
- 1964 Top of The Pops TV programme begins, The Beatles released the film and album, A Hard Day's Night By Richard Leister, UK.
- 1983 Michael Jackson's Thriller, John Landis
- 1983 Beginning of country music television
- 1984 MTV Music Awards launched
- 1985 Live Aid
There are speculations that the very first music video is Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, an the video is one of the reasons why this single became one of the biggest selling singles of all time in the UK- 2.1 copies sold.
"As this brief history illustrates, while the music promo video is only the most recent (and most Successful) development of the fusion between music and image,it, together with MTV and the induction of the CD was basically responsible for the revival of the music industry, practically improving sales it established image as a key factor in artist promotion, by the end of 1980's, the music video was a prerequisite in the promotion of singles."
Peter Fraiser's Book
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