Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' Won 9 MTV Awards in 1987 and Is Considered Greatest Music Video Ever Made

Peter Gabriel spent 16 hours lying under a glass sheet so stop-motion animators could film one frame at a time. The result won nine MTV Awards.
American Songwriter

The 1986 Music Video That Nearly Cost INXS Their Lives: “It Was Like a ‘Crocodile Dundee’ Movie”

While INXS were nearly finished recording their breakthrough album Listen Like Thieves in 1985, the band wrote one of their biggest hits in the very last hours when producer Chris Thomas told the band ...
Classical Music

The 1980s was the golden age of the music video. Here are 15 DEFINING '80s videos

Music videos came of age in the 1980s – where promotional clips had usually been perfunctory mimed performances, the advent ...
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35 years later, Lou Reed's banned 'No Money Down' video is still nightmare fuel

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lou Reed in the little-seen "No Money Down" music video, 1986. (Photo: Sony Music) Lou Reed’s seminal work with the Velvet ...