Music videos came of age in the 1980s – where promotional clips had usually been perfunctory mimed performances, the advent ...

The 1980s didn’t just change music — they changed how we experienced it. Before MTV launched in 1981, music videos were afterthoughts, low-budget promotional clips that occasionally appeared on ...

When it comes to music videos, there is a before and after. There was a time when music videos weren’t prized like they were in the 1980s and 1990s. Prior, they were rarely seen promo materials. But ...

In 1979, the British-born band The Buggles released the song “Video Killed The Radio Star”—and, well, how right they were! Shortly after, music videos became all the rage in the 1980s. In many ways, ...

What were the best rock music videos for each year of the 1980s? It was a decade that set the standard for what the music video can be and we saw the growth explode over the course of the 1980s.

When MTV debuted in 1981, it ushered in a golden era of music videos. The network’s launch was groundbreaking for artists everywhere. Suddenly, music was no longer a purely audible medium. Visuals ...

Since MTV launched in the early 1980s, music videos have served as both artistic expression and cultural lightning rod. What started as a new medium for marketing songs quickly became a battleground ...

The 1980s were a time when the art of the music video really boomed, but so did the budget. Find out the most expensive music ...