Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video

The Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video , in German " Grammy Award for the Best Concept Music Video ", is a music prize that was awarded in 1988 and 1989 by the American Recording Academy in the field of music video .

History and background

Since 1959, the Grammy Awards are presented annually in numerous categories by the Recording Academy in the United States to recognize artistic achievement, technical competence, and overall outstanding performance regardless of album sales or chart position.

One of these categories was the Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video. The prize was awarded in 1988 and 1989. As early as 1982, the Recording Academy began to award music videos with the Grammy Award for Video of the Year category . However, this category was discontinued in 1984 with the establishment of the MTV Video Music Awards in 1984 and replaced by the Grammy Award for Best Video, Short Form, and the Grammy Award for Best Video Album . Changes to the award criteria resulted in the two categories Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video and Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video being established in 1988 and 1989 . The Recording Academy returned to the previous format in 1990 and has since presented the Grammy Award for Best Music Video and the Grammy Award for Best Music Film .

Winners and nominees

year	winner	nationality	Video	Nominees	Picture of the winner (s)
1988	genesis	United Kingdom	Land of Confusion	David Bowie - Day-In Day-Out Kate Bush - The Whole Story David Lee Roth - David Lee Roth Janet Jackson - Control - The Videos Part II
1989	Weird Al Yankovic	United States	Fat	Hampton String Quartet - Get a Job George Harrison - When We Was Fab Talking Heads - Storytelling Giant Neil Young - This Note's for You

Web links

• Official website of the Grammy Awards - Recording Academy, Los Angeles (English)
• Winner of the Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video at grammy.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Grammy Awards. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
2. ^ The Official Site of the Grammy Awards - Overview. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
3. ↑ GRAMMY Awards Winners for Best Concept Music Video. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
4. ↑ The music video for Land of Confusion by Genesis , a song that in 1986 on the album Invisible Touch the book was published, used puppets of the British satirical TV show Spitting Image of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and other famous personalities.
5. ↑ The awards were given to members of the band Genesis ( Tony Banks , Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford ) as performing artists, Jim Yukich and John Lloyd as video directors and Jon Blair as video producers.
6. ↑ The music video for David Bowie's Day-In Day Out , directed by Julien Temple , contains "obnoxious" scenes of a man urinating on Ronald Reagan's Hollywood Walk of Fame star that was deleted from television shows.
7. ↑ Choice bits of Bowie video cut from finished version. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Kate Bush's imaginative video sampler accompanies her album of the same name with her greatest hits and contains music videos for songs from her entire career
9. ↑ Musicians struts stuff on tapes. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Kate Bush: The Whole Story (1989). Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
11. ↑ David Lee Roth's video consisted of video clips created for his debut solo EP Crazy from the album Heat and Eat 'Em and Smile .
12. ^ David Lee Roth (1986). Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Janet Jackson's video collection, which won gold in the US, contains six music videos recorded for singles from her album Control .
14. ↑ In the music video Fat , Yankovic becomes an overweight man through the use of cosmetics and special effects, leading a group of overweight people in a parade. The award went to Yankovic as a performing artist, Jay Levey as a video director, and Susan Zwerman as a video producer.
15. ↑ 'Weird Al' Yankovich couldn't resist 'Fat' parody of 'Bad. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Get a Job , a song originally recorded by the American group The Silhouettes , appeared on the album What If Mozart Wrote "Roll Over Beethoven," a collection of Beethoven- style R&B and pop songs by the Hampton String Quartet , Debussy , Mozart and other composers.
17. ↑ When We Was Fab , a song from the Cloud Nine album , is constructed from quotes written when the Beatles were at the height of their fame and shows Harrison playing a sitar. The music video shows Elton John disguised as a walrus, a reference to the song I Am the Walrus.
18. ↑ Storytelling Giants is a collection of Talking Heads music videos with additional material linking them together.
19. ↑ More from the Talking Heads. Accessed August 20, 2019 . 
20. ↑ Complete list of Grammy nominees. Accessed August 20, 2019 .