The most expensive music video made in the 1980s

The most expensive music video made in the 1980s

If any major label were nonplussed about the promo video as the 1980s arrived, the purse strings would be loosened for big-budget music videos sharpish the moment MTV made its pop-cultural waves. Momentum was building over the previous years. Before David Bowie set a new standard for ‘Ashes to Ashes’ $582,000 production in 1980, a steady tradition of promo clips held more of an established practice in the British music industry, largely down to …