Top 10 Music Videos

The video for Take on Me caused a sensation when it was released in 1985, and it’s still great fun to watch today even though it has dated. When a woman is seduced into entering a comic book to become part of the art, the world’s fastest love affair begins and the comic hero eventually bashes his way out of the frame to be with her in reality. It’s a pretty trite storyline, but the execution was impressive for the time, and it still comes across as an interesting concept for a simple medium like a music video clip.

“Pete, we want you to lay under a sheet of glass for sixteen hours while we mess around with bits of Play-Doh. You up for it?” LONG PAUSE. “Er...yeah ok.” Such was the scene just before this epic went into production. The stop motion photography was produced by Aardman Animations, creators of Creature Comforts and of course, Wallace and Gromit. Always near the top of best video charts, it won a record nine MTV VMA awards in 1987. Best bit: The egg hatching into dancing chickens is cracking, Gromit. Sorry.