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"The Big Bopper" Richardson was the first to coin the phrase "music video", in 1959. [9] In his autobiography, Tony Bennett claims to have created "...the first music video" when he was filmed walking along the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London, with the resulting clip being set to his recording of the song "Stranger in Paradise". [10]
He created one of the first American television programs dedicated to music videos, PopClips, which aired on Nickelodeon in 1980, and was soon after approached to help develop the MTV network, though he declined. Nesmith was also an executive producer of the film Repo Man (1984).
First female artist and first lead guitarist (Neil Giraldo) 3 "She Won't Dance With Me" Rod Stewart: 1/2 Bassist Phil Chen was the first non-white musician to appear on MTV [4] 4 "You Better You Bet" The Who: 1/5 5 "Little Suzi's on the Up" Ph.D. 1/3 No sound for the first 7 seconds of the video, then it plays normally. 6 "We Don't Talk Anymore"
Mariah Carey and JAY-Z threw absolutely everything at the wall—and this video, directed by Brett Ratner, was one of the most expensive music video productions of its time with a $2.5 million budget.
The post The 40 Greatest Music Video Artists appeared first on SPIN. A promotional visual accompaniment to a popular song doesn’t need a coherent narrative (although on rare occasions, they do).
Former Monkee Mike Nesmith conceived the first music-video program as a promotional device for Warner Communications' record division. Production began in the spring of 1979 at SamFilm, a sound-stage built and operated in Sand City, California by Sam Harrison, a Monterey Peninsula College instructor with a motion picture background.
MTV first premiered a new music video programming block called FNMTV, and a weekly special event called FNMTV Premieres, hosted from Los Angeles by Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy, which was designed to premiere new music videos and have viewers provide instantaneous feedback. [78] AMTV, an early morning block, debuted in 2009. [79]
In 1984, the channel produced its first MTV Video Music Awards show, or VMAs. The first award show, in 1984, was punctuated by a live performance by Madonna of "Like a Virgin". The statuettes that are handed out at the Video Music Awards are of the MTV moonman, the channel's original image from its first broadcast in 1981. As of 2012, the Video ...