Hit the right note – the music video
Once upon a time you could promote your band’s music with a small investment from reluctant loved ones and the help of a gifted (and massively well connected) producer.
The 80s and MTV changed that and suddenly to succeed you needed a music video.
Whether it was Bauhaus brooding about a dead Hollywood vampiric actor, or Simon Le Bon dangling precariously off the edge of a very fast moving yacht, banging on about some woman called Rio, everyone recognised the importance of a good music video.
