Visual notes: musicians 'band' with CG artists to release inventive video hits.(Music Videos)

The sound, and look, of music changed forever in the 1960s when British bands started the pop-music revolution and, unwittingly, jump-started the music video craze. Initially, groups such as The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Procol Harum, and other created films to promote new releases, especially for locations where they weren't touring. But it was the band Queen that set the Bohemian Rhapsody and, exploiting the more economical and creative-friendly format, introduced a conceptual rather than concert-like style containing effects created in camera. The video, which aired on the UK's Top of the Pops broadcast program in lieu of a live performance because of the song's ...