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80s Music Video of the day. Directed by Bowie and David Mallet, this was, at the time, the most expensive music video made. Adjusted for inflation, it is still more expensive than Michael Jackson's Thriller. There's no story in the video, rather constant dream like imagery.
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80s Music Video of the day. From 1983, this girl power video, directed by Bob Giraldi sees Benatar as a teen runaway who empowers a bunch of women to leave the club they work/get abused at. The song won Benatar her 4th Grammy in a row for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
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Music Video of the day. Director Stanley Donan used the rotating room effect that he implemented in the movie Royal Wedding. Donan stated that Richie took to the effect better than his previous leading man, Fred Astaire. Maybe because he didn't have a movie for reference.
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80s Music Video of the day. Directed by the man himself, Prince also got an animator to do an entirely different version and they merged both together. Prince died nine years ago this day.
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Soundtrack Sunday. From the underrated buddy cop action comedy Running Scared, this catchy Michael Mcdonald tune was written by Rod Temperton who also wrote Thriller for another Michael. Stars of the movie, Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines appear with Mcdonald in the vid.
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80s Music Video of the day. Directed by Steve Barron, this is iconic but it's not even the first one for the song. Or the original version of the song itself. It failed to chart in '84, the band reworked it, and with the help of the vid, it got to no. 1 in many countries.
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80s Music Video of the day. Directed by Willy Smax, this promo incorporates stop motion techniques also seen in Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer, the same year. The difference here, is a badass Annie Lennox. And less plasticine. The song won Best Rock Performance Grammy in 1987.
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80s Music Vid of the day. After seeing a puppet version of himself on satirical show Spitting Image, Phil Collins asked the creators to produce a music video for this song. Directed by John Lloyd and Jim Yukich, the video features Chris Barrie from Red Dwarf voicing Reagan.
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80s Music Video of the day. Director David Garfath used Bush's dance training for this simply effective clip. While the song got to no. 3 in the UK in 1985, its use in Stranger Things got it to no. 1 in 2022. The song laments a couple's inability to understand each other.
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80s Music Video of the day- This song was so popular that the producers of Miami Vice named an episode after it and gave Frey a guest role as a pilot. The video, directed by Duncan Gibbins won an MTV Music Video award. Frey's then wife Janie Beggs plays his accomplice. youtu.be/LSXKyHM133c?...

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The latest episode of my podcast Terror in Ten, a horror movie review podcast in ten minutes or less is available pretty much everywhere, including Spotify. This week, I talk about The Blair Witch Project. open.spotify.com/episode/3LLx...

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