Nigel Dick is a British music video director born in 1953. He began his career in the music industry working at Stiff Records and directing the 1984 Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?". In 1986 he co-founded Propaganda Films, a major music video and commercial production company. Over his career he has directed videos for many major artists across multiple genres and decades.

1. Nigel Dick
By Dominic Punt

2. Biography
• Born 21 March 1953 – South Yorkshire
• Previous jobs – Clerk, Busker, Cab Driver, Salesman, Waiter
• Qualifications – Degree in Architecture and graduate from Judith
Weston’s Acting for Directors
• First feature film – 1986 (P.I. Private Investigations)
• Artists directed – Britney Spears, Oasis, Il Divo, Elton John, S Club,
REM

3. Timeline of videos
1983 "I Think I'll Get My Haircut" Jona Lewie
1984 "Mothers Talk" Tears For Fears
"Shout
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid
1985 "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" Tears For Fears
"Head over Heels
"I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)
"Living on the Borderline" Smash Palace
1987 "Welcome to the Jungle" Guns N' Roses
1988 "Sweet Child o' Mine"
"Paradise City"
"Rocket" Def Leppard
1989 "Patience" Guns N' Roses
1992 "TV Crimes" Black Sabbath
1993 "Right By Your Side" Enuff Z'Nuff
1994 "Rock 'n' Roll Star" Oasis
1995 "Wonderwall"
1996 "Falling into You" Celine Dion
"It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
"Tattva" Kula Shaker
"Wide Open Space" Mansun
"Don't Look Back in Anger" Oasis
"Champagne Supernova"
"Slang" Def Leppard
Work It Out"
1997 "As Long as You Love Me" Backstreet Boys
"All I Have To Give"
"Push" Matchbox Twenty
"Gone Away" The Offspring
"How's It Going to Be" Third Eye Blind
1998 "Don't Go Away" Oasis
"Shorty (You Keep Playing with My Mind)" Imajin featuring Keith Murray
"Only When I Sleep" The Corrs
"...Baby One More Time" Britney Spears
"'Cruel Summer" Ace of Base
"I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You" Marc Anthony & Tina Arena
1999 "At My Most Beautiful" R.E.M.
"Sometimes" Britney Spears
"(You Drive Me) Crazy"
"I'm Outta Love" Anastacia
"Believe" Cher
"Don't Say You Love Me" M2M
"Strong Enough Cher
"Me, Myself & I" Vitamin C
2000 "Oops!... I Did It Again" Britney Spears
"I Think I'm in Love With You" Jessica Simpson
Swear It Again" (US Version) Westlife
"Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" Fuel
"Breathless" The Corrs
"Innocent" Fuel
Alive" S Club
"Pretty Boy" M2M
"I Wanna Be with You" Mandy Moore

4. 2001 "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" Train
"Cowboys & Kisses" Anastacia
"Drowning" Backstreet Boys
"Astounded" Tantric
"Aroma" Pru
"For You" Staind
2002 "Too Bad" Nickelback
"Never Again" Nickelback
"Hero" Chad Kroeger (featuring Josey Scott)
"That's What Girls Do" No Secrets
"Kids in America"
2003 "Someday" Nickelback
2004 "Out of the Blue" Delta Goodrem
"Vindicated" Dashboard Confessional
(Spider-Man 2 soundtrack)
"Broken" Seether (featuring Amy Lee)
"Angel" The Corrs
"Everything to Me" Brooke Hogan
2005 "Far Away" Nickelback
"Blind" by Lifehouse
"Dancing" Mai Kuraki
"Photograph" Nickelback
"Stickwitu" Pussycat Dolls
2006 "Always on Your Side" Sheryl Crow & Sting
"Savin' Me" Nickelback
"Rock On" Def Leppard
"Time of Our Lives" Il Divo & Toni Braxton
2007 "Better Than Me" Hinder
2008 "Absolutely Positively" Anastacia
"Gotta Be Somebody" Nickelback
"Underneath the Same Sky" Kenny Loggins
2009 "I'd Come for You" Nickelback
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"If Today Was Your Last Day"
"Never Gonna Be Alone"
"I Love This Town" Clive Gregson
"Constant As The Wind" Carl Verheyen
"First There Is A Mountain" Kenny Loggins
2010 "Give Me a Sign" Breaking Benjamin
"Ambitions" Joe McElderry
"Monster High Fright Song" Monster High
"This Afternoon" Nickelback
"Fever" Bullet for My Valentine
"Bittersweet Memories"
"Pretend[disambiguation needed]" Destinee & Paris
"Not a Love Song" Wonderland
"Lose My Mind The Wanted
2011 "Bittersweet" Clive Gregson
"The Road Divides"
Live DVD Carl Verheyen
"Wranglin'" 3 Boxes
"Gold Forever" The Wanted
"Starlight" Wonderland
"The Last Goodbye" David Cook
"Something To Say" The Brilliant Things
"Give" LeAnn Rimes
2012 "Forbidden Kiss" Frank Gambale
"Lullaby" [Nickelback
"Start of Something Good" Daughtry
"Bang, Bang" Beth Hart
2013 "Borrowed" LeAnn Rimes
"Spirit of Julia" Carl Verheyen
"These Things You Do" Billie Rainbird
"My Kind of Girl" Clive Gregson
2014 "A Billion Girls" Elyar Fox
"Dirt" Florida Georgia Line

5. Career in music video
• He began his career in the record business working at Stiff Records, where he stayed for five years
working as a Press Officer with Madness, Ian Dury, Lene Lovich and The Plasmatics. In the early
1980s he moved to Phonogram Records. While at Phonogram he directed the original Band Aid
video "Do They Know It's Christmas?", starring Boy George, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Sting, Bono,
members of Duran Duran, and others.
• In 1986, he co-founded Propaganda Films, which became a major production company for
commercials and music videos.
• In 1999, he directed MTV's first made-for-TV feature 2gether. The film spawned a TV series and
two albums. Dick co-wrote a number of songs on the first album which reached the US Top-40
chart. In 2003 he directed Seeing Double for Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment, which starred
British pop act S Club 7.

6. Links to Videos
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE – Do They Know It’s
Christmas
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZXHBgjQjNM – Drowning
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J-ZzSKNW_8 - Ambitions

7. His music video style
• Nigel Dick uses the performance style commonly, with a lot of lip
syncing and not much concept.