The first two hours of MTV (1981) [video]
Strangely enough, Australian artists were uniquely well-prepared for the emergence of MTV.There was a national Saturday night pop music show called Countdown [1], that ran from 1974, featuring live performances and music videos, so Australian bands had nearly a decade head start to develop the art of music video.This was a major factor in the USA success of INXS, Men at Work, AC/DC and Olivia Newton-John, as they'd started out in the late 70s, and when MTV started, they already had great music videos in the can and were well placed to make more.When most videos were just of the group on a studio stage performing the song (e.g., Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing [2]), INXS and other bands of the time had arthouse filmmakers like Richard Lowenstein [3] doing much more creative work.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(Australian_TV_progr...[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_7qkRwcMFc[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lowenstein