Ten Years Ago I Won A Car on TV Because I Know Far Too Much About Music Videos
Yes, it happened. I sold the car and paid off my student loans. Not bad for an hour’s work.
Yes, it happened. I sold the car and paid off my student loans. Not bad for an hour’s work.
Punk-reggae legend & Big Audio Dynamite member Don Letts talks about shooting the Clash’s “Rock the Casbah” video.
Award-winning director Meiert Avis says the “Born This Way” video channels Bootsy, the transhumanist movement and Genesis P-Orridge, and wonders what would have happened if David Fincher had directed “Born This Way” instead of “The Social Network”
In an exclusive interview for THE GOLDEN AGE OF MUSIC VIDEO blog, award-winning director Edd Griles (“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”) said he is disappointed with Lauper-lauding megastar Lady Gaga and her new video for “Born This Way”.
Veteran music video director Jim Yukich said he was asked by Michael Jackson to remove David Spade from the final cut of his “Liberian Girl” video because Jackson didn’t know who David Spade was.
Music Television first played a video for Gerry Rafferty’s wildly popular “Baker Street,” but then aired an odd animation clip for “Bring It All Home” later in the day.
In no particular order, these are some holiday treasures worth revisiting every year.
In the spirit of the season, the Literal Version team created LV versions of Hall and Oates’ unintentionally hilarious “Jingle Bell Rock” video, which Golden Age fans remember has both a Daryl-on-lead version and a John-on-lead version.
We mourn the loss of musician, designer and music video director Peter Christopherson, a.k.a. “Sleazy”, who passed away on November 24.
Why is there a white background of so many early English new wave videos? Simple: It was cheap. A great example is the video for “Pop Muzik” by M, directed by Brian Grant.
Artisan music video director Jim Blashfield’s most visually-trippy grab bag of kitchen sink mischief is arguably his video for Nu Shooz’s “I Can’t Wait”.