Steve Barron made his directorial debut in 1979 and directed many of the 1980s’ most memorable music videos, including Billie Jean by Michael Jackson, Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, and Take on Me by a-ha.
Dire Straits – Money For Nothing (1985)
The video was one of the first uses of computer-animated human characters and was considered ground-breaking at the time of its release…
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean (1983)
The short film for Jackson’s “Billie Jean” is considered the video that brought MTV, a fairly new and unknown music channel, into mainstream attention. It was one of the first videos by a black artist to be aired regularly by the channel…
a-ha – Take On Me (1985)
The video features the band in a pencil-sketch animation called rotoscoping combined with live-action. The video won six awards, and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.
Def Leppard – Let’s Get Rocked (1992)
The song was accompanied by a then state-of-the-art computer animated music video, which is believed to be one of the most groundbreaking CG music videos created along with “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits.
Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science (1982)
In the music video, Dolby commits himself to a Home for Deranged Scientists. Throughout the course of the video, Magnus Pyke tries to diagnose what he is suffering from, all the while being seduced by Miss Sakamoto…