Over 41 million YouTube hits for AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck”
We spoke with director David Mallet, director of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” video, which has over 41 million hits on YouTube. Not bad for a song from 1990.
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Lost gem: Ian Hunter “All of the Good Ones Are Taken”
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again — this is the most underrated video of all time, the Lost Ark of GAMV clips […]
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Rick Springfield: Shattered glass, $3 salad bowls and David Fincher
With this month’s release of Rick Springfield’s autobiography “Late, Late at Night”, Rick touches on some of his experiences making music videos in the Golden Age, including working with a young music video director named David Fincher.
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Ten Cringeworthy Music Videos From Film Soundtracks
In the Golden Age of Music Video, Hollywood often came knocking, sometimes to embarrassing effect. For every “Danger Zone” or “Footloose” from Kenny Loggins that we embraced, there’s a “Meet Me Half Way” (from Stallone’s arm-wrestling aria “Over The Top”) we had to endure. Join us as we witness the walk of shame that resulted from some truly wince-inducing hookups between film soundtrack songs and their music video partners.
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Heidi Klum gets her “Wicked Game” moment
Seal’s new video for “Secret” from Seal 6: Commitment features model wife Heidi Klum and the Scarred One naked in bed. Director Nabil Elderkin seems […]
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“Going Back” indeed: Phil Collins’ original Motown remake from 1982
The album celebrates Phil’s longstanding love of Motown et al, which fans remember from his 1982 remake of the Supremes’ “You Can’t Hurry Love.
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Lost gem: Don Felder “Bad Girls”
Directed by Eliminator era ZZ Top music video director Tim Newman and bearing his trademarks — hot girls and cool cars — this underrated ex-Eagle’s […]
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And so it begins…
Welcome to The Golden Age of Music Video blog! As the author of a forthcoming book chronicling the adventures of music video directors during this […]
