List of Top Music Videos Shot in London
Music videos are basically a small film shot in order to give a picture to the words of the song, besides that it is also used for the promotion of the song along with the artist. Usually artist and the directors who film the song try to select the best location which can be used in a maximum 4 or 5 minute music video. The sites and location of London have been used many times in videos and they are still being used.
It is in the hands of the director to make a video which not only increase the market of the song, but it also makes the singer prominent. Most of the time the song is not listened carefully but it is watched, because the song is not understandable until you watch its video. In this modern era the need of music video for the promotion of song has been increased. There are few phenomenal songs whose videos were shot in some fanatical locations of London.
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London Bridge is sensational and fun song from Fregie’s album The Dutchess, which was also her debut album. Fregie herself wrote this song which was released in April 2009. The video of this song was directed by Marc Webb in London. London Bridge was Fregie’s first solo song though she has been a part of Blsck Eyed Peas for a long time and still is.
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Is This Love was an outrageous number of Bob Marley’s album Kaya which was released in 1978. The video of Is in Love, Marley’s best number, was also shot in the locations of London. The producer and among the cast of the video was a well known super model Naomi Campbell, this gave her a chance to make her first public appearance.
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Girlfriend is an eminent number of Alicia Keys form her debut album Songs in A Minor. The song was released in 2001 and it acquired huge amount of fame. The director of the music video is Patrick Hoelck who tremendously captured lovely locations of London which gave life to the words of Alicia’s song.
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Every day I Love You, was the last song of a famous Irish rock band Boyzone which was released in 2000, later the band member split. This song was also shot in London and due to the tremebous music and the lyrics it topped the charts and stayed at 3rd position for a very long time in the UK Singles Chart.
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Back to Black, was one of the amazing songs of Amy Winehouse’s which she mourns besides a tombstone that says ‘Rest In Peace the heat of Amy Winehouse.’ The video was tremendously directed by Phil Griffin in the locations of London. The entire video was shot in the Chesholm Road and Gibson Garden which is located at Stoke Newington in London.
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Ayo Technology is yet another popular song of 50 Cent. This song is form his third album and it was released on May 2007. The song also features Timberland and Justin Timberlake; Timberland besides being featured in the song also produced the video of it which was shot in London. The entire filming of the music video took place in North London.
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Bitter Sweet Symphony, is a famous song of a rock band Verve form their album ‘Urban Hymns’. This song was released in 1988 and its video was shot in the busy London pavement. Most of the shooting was done in the Hoxton and Falkirk Streets, North London.
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For Tomorrow, is a Britpop, Baroque pop song, sung by another popular English rock band Blur. The song was released on the April 1993 and its entire video was shot in London. The locations covered in this videos includes, Primrose Hill, Trafalgar Square, London bus and Nelson's Column.
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LDN is Lily Allen’s song which is a short form of London. The number was released on the September 2006 and it has two videos, the first one was a low budget video where as the second one was a nice video entirely shot in London. besides the streets of London the video was also shot at the Ladbroke Grove Tube Station London.
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About You Now is fun number of a English rock band Sugababes from their fifth studio album Change. The shooting of the music video was done at the Festival Hall at Waterloo, London. The filming of the music video was very interesting but inauspiciously before the video was released the many clippings were already leaked on the internet.
