This video was very controversial as it related to religious ecstasy. It depicts a woman witnessing a murder and being too scared to report, and so goes into a church to find answers, but instead finds a statue of a black man portraying a saint who she falls in love with. The video then goes on to show them engaging in sexual activities which caused a lot of controversy in the industry. Madonna was always know for controversy in her videos, however this video was another shock to the public.
#4 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
This was a revolutionary video that changed how people visualised music. The song was no.1 in the charts however Queen were too busy touring and did not want to keep appearing on TOTP and so they created this short film. The song and video stayed at number 1 for 9 weeks running.
#3 A-ha - Take on me (1985)
This video was something that was different to any videos prior or even since. It incorporated a half comic, half real world aspect. This made it a very interesting video and helped immensely with the songs success as it was released twice a year before with no video and did not do well. However this time around with the second video it peaked at number 2 in the UK charts.
#2 Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (1986)
This was directed by Stephen R. Johnson. It revolved heavily around animation. Peter Gabriel's head was the centre and there were animations revolving around his head and colliding with him as if it was in fact real. This video broke records as it collected 9 MTV Music Video Awards in 1987.
#1 Michael Jackson - Thriller (1983)
Finally, the number 1 greatest video of all time according to this channel 4 documentary is Michael Jackson's Thriller. This video was based on the film 'An american werewolf in London'. Michael had said he wanted to turn in to a werewolf and so the director, John Landis, played on this concept for the video along with Michael. The original version was over 13 minutes long and several TV channels cleared their schedules to premier this video. A reported $500 000 was spent on the production of the video. The video appeared in the UK chart for 25 weeks. It also won 3 awards at the 1984 MTV Music Video Awards
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