70s & 80sBY IRAM ELLAHI

70s

Heart Of Glass – Parallel Lines (1978) Dancing Queen – ABBA (1975) ABC – The Jackson 5 (1970) Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye (1973) Love Hangover – Diana Ross (1976) Missing You – The Rolling Stones (1978)

80s

Call Me – Blondie (1980) Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor (1982) Beat it – Michael Jackson (1983) Hello – Lionel Richie (1984) Like A Virgin – Madonna (1984) We Are The World – USA For Africa (1985)

ABC – The Jackson 5 (1970)

The Jackson 5 brothers became really popular in the 70s because the brought a different genre of music to the music industry, they introduced a lot of pop music.The music genre targeted a lot of teenage and elder audience because the music came across as fun and upbeat.The definition of the camera in the 70s was a bit blurry, the colours in the videos were also bright. This type of music had a lot of people up and dancing and made a lot of people happy as pop music in the 70s always brought a happy and fun side to people, they always had a bright side to them.

Beat It – Michael Jackson (1983)

This music video had more of a rock theme to the video, there wasn’t as much lighting in the video, was set in the dark, the 80s had a lot of rock music involving and in the 80s a lot of teenagers started having a lot more freedom and started doing what they wanted to do, and with rock music it promoted freedom.