The document discusses several influential music videos throughout history and provides details about each. It analyzes how the videos impacted and changed the music industry. The first video mentioned is "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, which was the first video aired on MTV in 1981, signaling a new era where image became as important as sound. Other impactful videos discussed include Michael Jackson's "Thriller," which transformed music videos into an art form, and Iron Maiden's "Speed of Light," which spawned additional multimedia tie-ins.

1. By Erin Spencer

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Video Killed The Radio Star by Buggles
 Released in 1979 this was the first ever music video to be shown on MTV on the 1st of
august 1981
 Music videos as we know them today had been around since the 1960s as a promotional
tool. In the UK music videos were usually shown on Top Of The Pops as a replacement
when a band could not preform in person.
 The video for Video Killed The Radio star was made on a budget of $50,000 and was
filmed in 1 day in London.
 MTV choose this as the first video they ever aired because it signalled a new era for the
music industry where image would become equally as important as sound.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

3.  Released in 1994 and it was directed by Mark Romanek, who's been behind some of the
most memorable videos of the last 25 years
 Closer was voted the most controversial music video of all time, censors forced the
band to cut the video down for television the scenes deleted from the video were
replaced with a “scene missing” title card.
 The video is basically Trent Reznor in a David Lynch inspired steampunk S&M dungeon,
the video's imagery involves religion, sexuality, animal cruelty, politics, and terror.
 The video was filmed on out of date stock to make it grainy and even weirder. This
video was influential in the industry because it showed that music videos could be
serious controversial art and it inspired many other Rock & Metal artists like Marilyn
Manson and Slipknot.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTFwQP86BRs
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Closer by Nine Inch Nails

4.  The music video for "Ashes to Ashes" was one of the most iconic of the 1980s. With
production costing £250,000, it was at the time the most expensive music video ever
made and remains one of the most expensive of all time
 It incorporated scenes both in solarised colour and in stark black-and-white and was
filmed in multiple locations. Also featuring in the video is Steve Strange who came to
fame with his own New Romantic band Visage.
 The video makes references to what became of Bowie’s earlier character Major Tom
with scenes of the singer in a padded cell an on hospital life support.
 The complexity and high production cost of "Ashes to Ashes" makes it one of the most
significant in the evolution of the music video.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0
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Ashes To Ashes by David Bowie

5.  The first official video for "Relax", directed by Bernard Rose and set in a S&M themed
gay nightclub, featuring the bandmembers with leathermen, a drag queen, and an
obese admirer dressed up as a Roman emperor, who appears to ejaculate over the
crowd below.
 The video was banned by MTV and the BBC so a second video was made but then the
song was banned outright causing it to go straight to number 1 in the charts.
 This changed the industry because it caused the audience to rebel, it showed
corporations like the BBC that people would not be told what that could and could not
see and hear.
 The ban was an embarrassment for the BBC as it made them seem old fashioned and
out of touch, so much so they lifted the ban and played the song on the Christmas
edition of Top Of The Pops
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCpz3LAjxek
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Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

6.  The narrative quality and sweeping cinematography of the music video accentuated the
epic nature of the song. November Rain won an MTV Video Music Award for Best
Cinematography with the shots of slash in the desert becoming iconic in pop culture.
 The video portrays Axel Rose marrying his girlfriend Stephanie Seymour, intercut with a
live performance in a theatre. The plot of the video is based on a short story "Without
You" by Del James, from his 1995 book.
 The video is also one the most expensive of all time costing about $1 million including
Stephanie’s iconic dress designed by Carmela Sutera.
 The music videos for "November Rain", "Don't Cry" and "Estranged" form a trilogy. Epic
November Rain showcases stadium rock at its ostentatious height.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE
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November Rain by Guns N Roses

7.  Sledgehammer released in 1986, is famous for the claymation, pixilation, and stop
motion animation that gave life to images in the song.
 Sledgehammer won nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1987,the most awards a single
video has won, it is also MTV’s most played music video of all time.
 The video was made and edited in under a week and Peter Gabriel had lie under a
sheet of glass for 16 hours during filming.
 The video was influential because it was made at a time when creative, think-outside-
the-box music videos were still in their infancy.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g93mz_eZ5N4
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Sledgehammer By Peter Gabriel

8.  The music video for Like a Prayer was directed by Mary Lambert and released in February
1989, Madonna wanted the video to be more provocative than anything she had done before.
 Pepsi-Cola signed Madonna for $5 million deal to feature the singer and Like a Prayer in a TV
commercial and Pepsi would sponsor Madonna's next world tour, This was the first time
something like this was done in the music industry.
 Religious groups worldwide including the Vatican protested the video, saying that it contained
blasphemous use of Christian imagery. They called for the boycott of Pepsi causing them to
withdraw from their deal with Madonna.
 The video confronts racism and bigotry but also uses a lot of erotic and religious imagery, on
the 25th anniversary of MTV, viewers voted it the Most Groundbreaking Music Video of All
Time.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fzeNUqQbQ
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Like A Prayer by Madonna

9.  Gorillaz are a virtual band, The members are fictional and their universe is explored
through the band's music videos, as well as a number of short cartoons. Although not
the first band to do this they are the most famous.
 The integration of computer-generated imagery with two-dimensional animation is
more seamless in Feel Good Inc than previous videos, creating a more textured, layered
effect.
 The main themes of the video are intellectual freedom and the media's dumbing down
of mass culture.
 Gorillaz influenced the music industry because they proved a band can be solely based
around Music videos and doesn’t actually have to exist in real life.
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Feel Good Inc By Gorillaz
(or any of their videos)

10.  Thriller is a 14 minute horror musical opus and changed the music video from a simple
promotional tool to an authentic art form in its own right.
 The song was originally realised released on December 2, 1983 on MTV and Channel 4,
and its home-video release sold over 9 million copies.
 Thriller is currently the only music video preserved in the Library of Congress National
Film Registry.
 The video cost half-a-million dollars; at the time, it was the most expensive video ever
made.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA
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Thriller by Michael Jackson

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Speed Of Light by Iron Maiden
 The song's music video was directed and produced by Llexi Leon, creator of the comic
book series Eternal Descent, as well as the virtual band of the same name
 The video is a homage to four decades of video gaming, centring on the band's
mascot, Eddie.
 The video also sees Eddie travelling back through Iron Maidens history with scenes in
the video replicating some of their most iconic album artwork.
 This video is influential in the music industry because it spawned a mobile game, Iron
Maiden: Legacy Of The Beast and a comic book series of the same name. It changed a
music video into a multi-media universe.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F7A24f6gNc