The Beatles got there first

There is a tendency to think of music videos as originating in the 1980s - the era of MTV and Michael Jackson's Thriller, when every major single would be accompanied by a short film, marrying music with visuals. But, as with so many pop innovations, The Beatles got there first.The newly released Beatles 1+ DVD features 50 promos of the Fab Four, sweeping viewers from a charmingly static black and white mop-top performance of Love Me Do in 1963 to a full-colour, windswept, wild and funky romp t...