# music video clips **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 12, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-video-clips/174623 "2003-05-12T04:30:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vega-TxT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dfb087/32.png) [@Vega-TxT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vega-TxT)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-video-clips/174623/1 "2003-05-12T04:30:31Z")
heloo, as far as I know, there has been a lot of theories about wich was the first music gropu to record a videoclip, I somewhere heard that was QUEEN that first group, is that ok? if not tell me wich was the first… thanx ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-video-clips/174623/2 "2003-05-12T04:43:33Z")
The first “official” one, as it was the first on mtv, was the Buggles Video killed the radio star. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-video-clips/174623/3 "2003-05-12T04:47:55Z")
To expand, the Buggles music video was the first one to be made as a “music video”, rather than a taping of the artist performing. They’re were “videos” of Nancy Sinatra doing “These boots were made for walking” well before their were “music videos”. Most were only used as promo clips to announce news about artists or to show you what they were like. ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-video-clips/174623/4 "2003-05-12T04:58:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Although promotional musical films had been in use since the swing era, it wasn’t until the 60s that they came into their own with the conjuncton of pop music and TV. The Beatles are generally credited with creating the pop music video as we know it. Indeed, their classic film A HARD DAY’S NIGHT is the template for every music video ever made since then. Until the mid-Sixties film-clips were of minor importance, but they took on a new significance in 1966-67 when both of Britain’s top acts, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, found it impossible to keep touring and retired to the studio. Now the promo clip came into its own as a means of promoting new singles locally, and in overseas markets where they were popular, like Australia and the USA. They kept the band’s face before the public without the need for long, expensive, exhausting (and sometimes downright dangerous) tours, and they had the added advantage that the act could be made to look as good as possible, without any of the inherent vagaries of live appearances. The Beatles virtually wrote the rule book for music video, breaking new ground with each dazzling new film-clip they made and the best of them stand as classics of the genre, often imitated but probably never to be bettered – Rain, Paperback Writer, Penny Lane and, towering above them all, their epoch-making clip for Strawberry Fields Forever. From [this site about Countdown, the first big music video show in Australia](http://www.geocities.com/milesago2001/countdown.htm) The first music video shown on Countdown, in 1974, was by an Australian band, Skyhooks. I don’t know when MTV started up.