MTV isn’t keen on playing music videos these days, but when it did,
it helped to define eras and careers, and became a phenomenon in its own
right.
The music video didn’t simply appear out of nowhere in 1981 when MTV
opened. Rather, there were many music videos before this, but few were
successful, thanks mainly to only occasional airings on weekly pop shows
on TV stations around the world.
While music videos are almost exclusively watched on YouTube
these days, this is only the latest stage in the evolution of a movie
sub-genre that can be as elaborate as a feature film and as personal as a
family photo.
In order to recount the history of this medium and show how it has
evolved over the decades, we have taken a look at 10 of the most iconic
music videos of the past 50 years.
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