1940 - The first promotional clips were made for bands for the visual jukebox. Thousands of these were created, mostly for jazz bands. They mostly depicted the bands performing on a constructed band stand designed for the shorts.
1956 - Hollywood began to make music-based films like “Rock Around The Clock”
1956 – Elvis Presley and other top acts were performing at the peak of the “Ed Sullivan Shows” popularity in America
1962 – “Top of the pops” is first aired
1967 – The Beatles release the ground breaking video's for “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry fields forever”
1969 - “Easy Rider” features one of the first uses of rock music to accompany sequences in a dramatic film
1975 – The infamous “Bohemian Rhapsody” video was released
1981 – MTV was launched, it was the first 24 hours a day music channel, the first video to be played on MTV was “Video killed the radio star”
1982 - The first music video was banned, it was Queen's song “Body Language”
1983 – Michael Jackson released the video for “Thriller” the video was 14 minutes long and was the most successful selling music video, shifting 9million copies
1989 - Madonna released the controversial video for “Like a Prayer”
1991 – Nirvana's “Smells like teen spirit” is released and launches the a song for the generation
1992 – MTV started crediting director's for music video's and reoccurring director's for big hit video's shot to fame
1995 – The music video for Michael Jackson's “Scream” cost $7million to produce and was nominated
2003 – The first HD Camcorders were introduced, so now music video's could be captured in high definition.
2005 – Youtube is launched, music video's now became available to be viewed on demand on the site
2005 – Music video's became available on the iTunes store
2008 – MTV HD is launched and is the first HD music channel available in the UK
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