A Brief History of The Pop Video

The 1940-50's was the start of the revolution of Music and this purely belonged to the domination of American acts such as Elvis Presley who was a big hit due to his style of music and sex appeal. As Elvis Presley never came to the UK British fans only saw him by touring this applied to .

Elvis Presley

Needle time refers to radio time which was created in the united kingdom by the musicians union and the Phonographic Performance Limited to control the amount of recorded music that was being transmitted by the BBC, as the BBC earned the rights to most radio channels, in an 24 hour period. These were also called Light shows, they would only play pop songs that were sung by amateur singers and not by the famous original singer, within these shows you were only allowed to play 5 hours per day. The only other way to listen to the original song was to buy the records. Then Television talk shows were introduced where these acts could show case their talent live and still be know to fans who weren't at the show through broadcasting, such as the Ed Sullivan show.

Although the Americans dominated the 40's and 50's, In the 60's The Beatles arrived and a new wave of urgency took over the world.

The 60's
The 60's was the introduction to British Rock from acts such as The Beatles, Rolling stones, Kinks. they all belonged to the swinging sixties. This was also the time when the BBC "Top of the pops" was introduced this was a way fans could see their favourite artists on the screen as long as they were number one on the charts.

Pirate Radio
Pirate radio was an illegal radio transmission, these type of radio stations are still found today,although the term pirate relates to the process being illegal it also seemed to stand for the people of these Radio stations as they would normally transmit it from the middle of the sea.Due to the  restrictions from the music union and phonographic performance limited everyone started listening to pirate radio. The plus side of pirate radios was that they played the original records from the artists rather than having someone unknown sing the song like the BBC, an example is Radio Caroline a film was made based on it in 2009 called "The Boat that Rocked".

The Beatles
The Beatles were growing more and more popular therefore they stated to grow bored and tired of touring  and being on shows, being on these shows meant that the Beatles could not be genuine as they had to mime their songs. To solve this problem The Beatles decided to produce a short film to please their fans and promote records some popular songs that were in this short film include "paperback writer" and "Rain".It took the Beatles a Afternoon to make the video and record, as a way of Marketing and distribution they posted it to multiple radio's around the world, This was the first ever music video.