Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is often -not without reason -described as being the first music video.
But is this not a music video, made by The Beatles for Strawberry Fields Forever in 1967, a mere eight years earlier?
Psychedelic as anything, and one of the best double A-sides ever (with ‘Penny Lane.’) Odd that it ‘only reached no.2, held off no.1 by Engelbert Humperdinck’s ‘Please Release Me.’ An even bigger injustice than Ultravox’s ‘Vienna’ being held off the top spot by ‘Shaddup Your Face’.
Hey ho…