1965’s Pop Gear pre-dates MTV by 16 years and, despite this being a theatrical movie, pretty much creates the template for music television. The big difference is the beautiful quality of the cinematography and sets in Pop Gear makes the early days of MTV look pretty cheesy.

Pop Gear (US: Go Go Mania) is a British music review film, directed by Frederic Goode wbhich was released in 1965. It contains live concert footage of The Beatles, and lip-synched films of some of the British Invasion bands, including The Animals, Herman’s Hermits, The Nashville Teens, Peter and Gordon, Matt Monro, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, The Honeycombs, The Rockin’ Berries, and the Spencer Davis Group). The material by The Beatles was lifted from a newsreel short The Beatles Come to Town (1963).” Wikipedia.

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