Music History Time Line

Music History Time Line

JFK shot

Important stages in history

Vietnam War

Landing on the moon

first and only female

Prime Minister

Iranian Revolution

1970s

Top Of The Pops formed

1975

Queen

Bohemian Rapsody

1979

Pink Floyd

Another Brick In The Wall

split into three parts

each have similar tune, structure and lyrics

mix of both filmed footage and animation

strange

1981

MTV (Music Television) formed

24/7 music videos

1983

Michael Jackson

Billie Jean

1st video by a black artist to be featured by a black artist also the first that’s not a rock video

1986

Peter Gabriel

Sledge Hammer

1992

MTV began listing the

directors name aswell

as the artist, similar to

films

1995

Michael Jackson

Scream

most expensive music promo made

cost 7million dollars

1996

Smashing Pumpkins

Tonight Tonight

2000

MTV stopped showing just

music videos - reality TV

2005

Youtube created

allowed audience to edit/create their own music promos

2007

social networking site - myspace

facility to upload videos

2007

RIAA law to

take music videos

off youtube

2008

1st 3D music video

missy Elliot