Video-Age Pop: Duran Duran and the Clip Business

Rio, Blue Monday and the pop factories: how the clip trade turned bands into cinema and producers into a brand.

Playlist by @music_video_birth

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Insane Stories from the Early Days of MTV — Polyphonic
2. The Power of Music Videos — Nathan Zed
3. Duran Duran - RIO 35th Anniversary: An oral history with Roger, Nick, John & Simon — Duran Duran
4. How DURAN DURAN Ruled the 80s and Beyond | POP FIX | Professor of rock — Professor of Rock
5. Duran Duran: The Most Dangerous Music Video Ever Filmed? — Amplified - Classic Rock & Music History
6. Duran Duran: The Making Of Rio — 80s New Wave Music
7. Def Leppard: The Most Dangerous Music Video Shoots Ever — Amplified - Classic Rock & Music History
8. Everything You Know About “Blue Monday” is Probably Wrong I New British Canon — Trash Theory
9. How Madonna Became Michael Jackson's Biggest Rival | the detail. — the detail.
10. Top of the Pops - 27th August 1981 — Top Of The Pops Video Archive