Father of the Music Video
Monday, October 17, 2011
Michael Lindsay-Hogg didn’t set out to become father of the music video – but that’s just what the pioneering filmmaker did…with a little luck, and circumstance. He got his start in 1965 at the British music show, Ready, Steady Go, and went on to direct The Beatles’ Let It Be, The Rolling Stones’ Rock And Roll Circus and much more. He joins us today with a new memoir, called “Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York and Points Beyond.”
Watch The Rolling Stones perform "Paint It Black" on Ready Steady Go - May 27, 1966:
- "Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond" on Amazon
- Watch Michael Lindsay-Hogg's video for The Beatles' "Paperback Writer"
Comments [6]
Mom: Geraldine Fitzgerald (!);
Dad: Orson Welles (!!)
How could this guy NOT end up an actor or director?
Quite a life.
Was Michael Hog the guy George was referring to in the Recent HBO Documentary? Seemed like George didn't like being filmed.
ditto, to the murray hill resident- right on....!
Video DID kill the radio star and NYC now has the worst radio of any major city in the US. MTV was a glorified training ground for directors that ended up destroying the thing it was supposed to honor.
The very first music video - that is a film made specifically to promote a song - may well go back five years earlier than Let It Be and it was also by the Beatles. They made a promo film for the single I Feel Fine in 1964 in which John, Paul & George 'play' guitars amidst bar bells and a punching bag and Ringo rides an exercise bike. They are obviously not singing live, George is seen talking in it. But it's cheeky and fun, typical Beatle antics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNTkHWqifXY
Great musicians all around. Standout: The Rolling Stones' "No Expectations." Also, this represents the last public performance of Brian Jones.
As a female and an huber fan, this film presents Keith Richards at the height charisma. (Swoon)
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