I Shoot Rock Stars: The Wild Adventures of a Music Video Director

The outrageous insider story of how MTV-era music videos were invented, told by the director who helped create the visual language of pop superstardom while shooting videos for the world’s biggest artists—David Bowie, Queen, The Cure, The Bangles, Wham!, Hall & Oates, and more—at the height of their excess, ambition, and creativity.

Tim Pope was there from the beginning, before music videos became slick corporate products, when they were anarchic, improvised, and wildly inventive.

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