David Mallet is a British director who rose to prominence in the late 1970s as a director of the then new format of music videos with Scott Millaney’s hugely successful enterprise MGMM, and is noted for his innovative work on hugely popular music videos in the 1980s, becoming one of the decade’s most sought-after directors for this format. His work includes David Bowie’s ‘Ashes to Ashes’ and ‘Let’s Dance, Rush’s ‘Distant Early Warning’, and Queen’s ‘Radio Ga Ga’ and ‘I Want to Break Free’ videos. He has also served as a producer on television programmes including The Kenny Everett Video Show.
DAVID BOWIE VIDEOS DIRECTED BY DAVID MALLET:
The video for David Bowie's single 'Loving The Alien' was directed by long-time collaborator David Mallet and released in May 1985....- David Bowie serenades Geeling Ng in the iconic video for his 1983 hit 'China Girl', which was shot in Sydney Australia by David Mallet....
- The music video for 'Let's Dance' was shot in February 1983 by David Mallet on location in Australia including a bar in Carinda in New South Wales and the Warrumbungle National Park near Coonabarabran....
- The story behind David Bowie's biggest hit single, 'Let's Dance', released in 1983 and produced by Nile Rodgers....
- 'Wild Is The Wind' was released as a single in November 1981 to support the release of Bowie's greatest hits package ChangesTwoBowie....
- The David Mallet directed video for David Bowie's 1980 hit 'Fashion' was shot in a famous nightclub called Hurrah in Manhattan....
- The iconic David Mallet directed video for David Bowie's 1980 #1 'Ashes To Ashes'....
- The re-recorded version of 'Space Oddity' performed by David Bowie on the Kenny Everett New Year's Eve show in 1979....
- RCA Records were unsure if America was ready for the sexual androgyny of ‘Boys Keep Swinging’, the lead-off single from Lodger in most territories, so they released ‘Look Back in Anger’ instead. The B-side was ‘Repetition’, another ‘Lodger’ track, a story of domestic violence. The single failed to chart....
- David Bowie's 'DJ' from the Lodger album was released as a single on 29 June 1979, with a video directed by David Mallet....
- ‘Boys Keep Swinging’ was the lead single from David Bowie’s ‘Lodger’ album, released on 27 April 1979. The song is an ode to the pleasures and privileges available to those fortunate enough to be of the male gender, and the video Bowie performs the choruses in drag, using three...
- On 23 April 1979 David Bowie performed new single 'Boys Keep Swinging' on ITV's 'The Kenny Everett Video Show'....
