![]() ![]() If a deep dive into music videos is what you’ve been wanting, then keep on reading! First, I’ll go over the history of MTV and why music videos were made in the first place, and then we’ll have a look at music videos from the pre-MTV era. No doubt it had cultural impact, but it’s important to set the record straight on music video history.Ī post about music video history is one I’ve been wanting to write for a while now, so let’s get started and talk about music videos. Queen, as much as I love them, didn’t make the first music video, but it’s still a great video and referenced everywhere. It doesn’t take a genius to debunk this one if you know a few basic things about music history. Over the holidays, my husband and I were playing a music trivia game and I saw something that was obviously incorrect: a claim that Queen made the first music video in 1975, for “Bohemian Rhapsody”. I’ve noticed though while travelling that MTV in Europe played way more music videos than American MTV. By the time I was watching those tapes, MTV wasn’t living up to its name and you’d see more reality shows than content that’s actually about music on MTV, but I found out through TV Guide that MTV played music videos in the morning so I would get up early to watch music videos, although these were of newer songs. ![]() One of my earliest exposures to old music was my dad going through his VHS tape collection and showing me some old MTV music videos that he recorded onto the tapes. ![]()
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