The music video era started in the 80s, with the introduction of the MTV channel. However, there are also some very nice videos, which were released before. Let's have a look at them.
Songs in alphabetical order:
1) "Antenna" by Kraftwerk
2) "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
3) "Have A Cigar" by Pink Floyd
4) "I Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" by The Stylistics
5) "If" by Telly Savalas
6) "Motorhead" by Hawkwind
7) "Only One You" by Sherbet
8) "Only Women Bleed" by Alice Cooper
9) "Only Yesterday" by The Carpenters
10) "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glenn Campbell
11) "Sailing" by Rod Stewart
12)"Stand By Me" by John Lennon
13) "Una Paloma Blanca" by George Baker Selection
14) "Why Can't We Be Friends" by War
15) "Yesterday's Hero" by John Paul Young
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There were actually hundreds of promo videos (and films, prior to video being used for production) before MTV launched - HBO used to play blocks of 3 or 4 videos between movies to fill time on the schedule, for example. It wasn't anything like 100% coverage, as it became in the 80s, and some of the videos were nothing more than TV appearances, usually with the artists lip-syncing to the studio recording. Soul Train, Solid Gold, and some of the variety shows in the 70s became the sources of early videos.
What really broke the dam open, aside from MTV coming into existence, were big-budget, shot-on-film "videos" such as Duran Duran's Rio and Hungry Like The Wolf, which helped make the band a blockbuster act. Once that happened, it was no longer acceptable to make cheap "performance videos" in front of a white background and just use cheap video effects and blowing out the whites for "style." LOL.
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