MTV Programming Week of 1984-12-22

The official music video was shot and released later in 1984. The narrative video features band member Jimmy Somerville as the boy who has experienced the issues described in the lyrics. Seen on a train, he is contemplating his childhood through flashbacks and the events that have caused him to leave his parents' home. At a swimming pool, his friends dare him to approach a young man who he is attracted to, for which he is later attacked in an alley by a homophobic gang led by the man he had approached at the swimming pool. A police officer brings him back to his home. It is implied that the boy's parents learn of his homosexuality for the first time through this incident and are shocked, but only the father seems unsupportive. The boy then catches a train to London, on which he is reunited with his friends.

Foreigner performs in the music video "I Want to Know What Love Is" from the album "Agent Provocateur" recorded for Atlantic Records. The video opens with Lou Gramm singing intently into a microphone at a recording studio. Video clips feature a white woman who wakes up and takes a shower, as well as a group of Afroamerican men and women (a man working on a high rise, and a woman working at a cleaner...) taking a bus to go the studio, meet the band and being the chorus for the song. The video ends with the white woman arriving at the studio to hug Lou Gramm.

Music video for "The Power of Love" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Hanoi Rocks performs in the music video "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" from the album "Two Steps from the Move" recorded for CBS Records. The music video opens with the band on darkened stage under spot lights. Andy McCoy sings into a microphone while the band plays around him.

Music video for "This Is Mine" by the British synth-pop band Heaven 17.

Molly Hatchet performs in the music video "Stone in Your Heart" from the album "The Deed Is Done" recorded for Epic Records. The music video opens with the band picking up a woman whose car has broken down. The band take her to a concert where they play on stage under colored lights. Later, she is arrested by the police.

Official music video for the single "How Soon is Now?" by Brit rock group The Smiths, from the album "The Queen is Dead". The group is shown performing the song while random images of a young girl and foggy images of a city are interspersed.

Filmed At New York's Nassau Coliseum In July 1984.

Lindsey Buckingham performs in the music video "Slow Dancing" from his album "Go Insane" recorded for Reprise Records. Buckingham sings in an old mansion before being confronted by a number of ghosts. After seeing a group of ghosts dancing outside, he manages to arrange a slow dance with one of the spectral women.

From the motion picture soundtrack of Michael Radford's 1984 (1984), comes the music video of one of the many tracks composed by Eurythmics "Sexcrime". Here, the duo Annie Lennox and David J. Stewart perform their song on a studio than later on a power-plant along with clips from the film.

Foreigner performs in the music video "I Want to Know What Love Is" from the album "Agent Provocateur" recorded for Atlantic Records. The video opens with Lou Gramm singing intently into a microphone at a recording studio. Video clips feature a white woman who wakes up and takes a shower, as well as a group of Afroamerican men and women (a man working on a high rise, and a woman working at a cleaner...) taking a bus to go the studio, meet the band and being the chorus for the song. The video ends with the white woman arriving at the studio to hug Lou Gramm.

The setting and the mood of the music video is kept very surreal, almost dream-like. At the beginning, Hall and Oates are discovered in their cozy apartment by someone on the roof, looking through a skylight. G.E. Smith throws a V-style guitar through the window, as if it were a spear. The guitar sticks into the floor and then begins glowing. This incites Hall and Oates to go up to the roof to investigate. There, on the roof of the apartment, they become mesmerized by a four-man band, and then all the men perform a choreography. While performing Daryl Hall falls from the roof, and the other men rush to see what became of him. There, they see him dancing on the clouds next to the moon, and upon Hall's beckoning, they dive off the roof in an attempt to walk on the clouds. At the end, they are seen swimming and dancing in the clouds, with neon signs flashing the letters of the song title.

Black and white music video for his song "Boys of Summer" shows Don Henley at three points in his life: today; back when he was a young man at the beach with a girl; and as a 7-year old drummer.

Billy Joel performs in the music video "Keeping the Faith" from the album "An Innocent Man" recorded for Columbia Records. Billy Joel sings in a courtroom with an audience populated by 1950s acts on one side and 1960s acts on the other. Joels sings before leaving the courtroom down steps designed like piano keys.