A Brief History of the Pop Video

A Brief History of the Pop Video

During the 1950's, and out brake of swinging pop music came to existence through Elvis Presley. Due to the copyright
infringement, radio stations could not play records. This lead to workers of the radio station singing the songs instead of the radio station playing the official version of the song.

After a few years the law was changer to allow radio stations such as radio Caroline and radio London to play the records a few hours a week. This was known as 'Needle Time'. But meanwhile pirate stations were going a few miles out of the country to set up their own radio stations to illegally play official records.

During the decade of the sixties, English music became dominant over the world because of a group called the Beatles. This was the group who revolutionized pop music making the 1960's the "swinging sixties". The idea of radio London and radio Caroline lead to the formation of BBC Radio 1. BBC also made something known as "Top of the Pops". As the Beatles always number 1 in the charts, the were the most wanted music artists to go on top of the pops. Artist who went on top of the pops mimed their songs. So instead, the Beatles produced shrt films to please their fans and to and to promote their songs e.g "Paperback Winter".