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The video surpassed one billion views on YouTube in July 2019, making it the oldest music video to reach one billion on the platform, and the first pre-1990s song to reach that figure. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] In 2022, the single was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry as being "culturally ...
Jackson during a dance step in the music video for "Beat It" The music video for "Beat It" helped establish Jackson as an international pop icon. [10] [41] The video was Jackson's first treatment of black youth and the streets. Both "Beat It" and "Thriller" are notable for their "mass choreography" of synchronized dancers, a Jackson trademark. [42]
In October 1987, the official music video was released, directed by David Mallet, who had collaborated with Queen on their previous videos. Mike Moran, who co-wrote the song, appears in the video conducting the orchestra with a light stick; he is often wrongly confused with Brian May, mostly due to their almost identical haircuts. In 2019, the ...
A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for. This is generally differentiated from a one-hit wonder in that the artist usually has had success with other songs as well.
In November 2004, Stylus music critic Anthony Miccio commented that "Under Pressure" "is the best song of all time" and described it as Queen's "opus". [28] In 2012, Slant Magazine listed "Under Pressure" as the 21st best single of the 1980s. [ 29 ]
New book details the inspirations behind the song and the strong reactions it stirred from bandmembers ‘I cried when I heard it’: The story behind Abba’s immortal pop hit ‘Dancing Queen ...
The song is largely known for its music video for which all the band members dressed in drag, a concept proposed by drummer Roger Taylor, which parodied the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street. The second part of the video included a composition rehearsed and performed with the Royal Ballet and choreographed by Wayne Eagling.
The video for the song was filmed at Alexandra Palace on 22 December 1979 and directed by Keith "Keef" MacMillan and features animation of a woman and a dove. The video would be the last to feature Freddie without a moustache until 1984, as he would sport it starting with the next video for "Play the Game" until he shaved it off for the music video for "I Want to Break Free".