EP140 - Steve Barron - Filmmaker - The Jam Music Promos & more...

On this episode of the podcast, we hear from filmmaker,
Steve Barron.


This fella was behind the music promo videos for The Jam's
Strange Town, When You're Young, Going Underground and Dreams of
Children... This was all pre-MTV... in a world where Top of the
Pops wanted as-live performances rather than music videos.


He also happened to create some of the most-watched music videos
of all time, we're talking "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson,
"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits and "Take On Me" by A-ha as
examples.


These films defined the medium during the early days of
MTV and are still considered among the best of all time.


The videos for "Take On Me" and "Billie Jean" have each garnered
over 1 billion views on YouTube.


Steve has also directed several films, including Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles (1990), Coneheads (1993), The Adventures of
Pinocchio (1996) and Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001).


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