Music Video History Although the origins of music videos began with “ musical short films” that first appeared in the 1920s, they really came into prominence in the 1980s when MTV created their channel around the medium and it changed how we received our music, but I'm going to take us back a few decades back now... back to the 60s. 1960s Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues " Subterranean Homesick Blues " is a song by Bob Dylan , recorded on January 14, 1965, with its influence on music, the song was used in one of the first "modern" promotional film clips. Th e forerunner of what was later known as the music video . T he original clip was the opening segment of D. A Pennebaker's film "Don't Look Back" , a documentary on Dylan's 1965 tour of England . In the film, Dylan holds up cue cards with selected words and phrases from the lyrics. 1970s Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody November 10th, 1975...