Bowie, the Cure, Neil Young and the golden age of the video shoot
· 34 min · Episode 947
Episode Bowie, the Cure, Neil Young and the golden age of the video shoot
Tim Pope caught the video wave in 1981 and made hundreds of promotional clips, often three or four a week, edited at night and on-air days later. You’ll have seen them, singles for the Style Council, The The, Iggy Pop, Hall & Oates and many others. For 15 years he was the man to call – inventive, caffeinated, risk-loving, clubbable – and “nothing was too mad or stupid”. He celebrates that magic age of big budgets and creative freedom in his story-filled memoir ‘I Shoot Rock Stars’, just out, and looks back here at …
… the video that made his reputation
… MTV showing six of his clips in a row
… the thrill of Bowie’s silhouette as he walked across the Rainbow stage in 1977: “there was so little footage back then, you’d rarely seen people move”
… his teenage love of Dusty, ELP, King Crimson and Pink Floyd
… shooting seven clips a fortnight and the one time a record label tried to interfere
… Neil Young’s 2,000-acre Broken Arrow Ranch and the “burning fires of his eyes”
… Iggy Pop singing I Wanna Be Your Dog in the John Snow pub in Soho
… “German sausages, lumps of lamb, maggots, a whole party”: the Soft Cell clip that caused a walk-out
... “You’re a funny little arsehole!”: breaking the ice with Bowie
… what he learnt from Mark Hollis of Talk Talk and spending time with his ashes.
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