INTERVIEW: Tim Pope, Video Director on Neil Young, More

Tim Pope: ‘I Shoot Rock Stars’(Click photo to enlarge)

Tim Pope caught the video wave in 1981 and made hundreds of promotional clips, often three or four a week, edited at night and on-air days later, including videos for Neil Young.

For 15 years he was the man to call – inventive, caffeinated, risk-loving, clubbable – and “nothing was too mad or stupid”. He celebrates that magic age of big budgets and creative freedom in his story-filled memoir ‘I Shoot Rock Stars’, just out, and looks back @:

 

… Neil Young’s 2,000-acre Broken Arrow Ranch and the “burning fires of his eyes”

 

Taken by producer Bobbie Bray in Pearblossom, California. Pope is waking Young up on set with a broom he grabbed on the spur of the moment

Tim Pope on Neil Young's ranch @ ~~ 14:22 

More on Tim Pope @

• Tim Pope: Neil Young Music Video Director | PODCAST by Adam Buxton
• Tim Pope: Making "Wonderin'" Video with Neil Young
• Making of "Touch the Night" Music Video by Tim Pope
• "People On The Street" ‏Music Video by Neil Young; Director - Tim Pope
• FILM PREMIERE: Neil Young Solo - London 2008 | NYA (directed by Tim Pope)
•  MUSIC VIDEO: "Weight Of The World" by Neil Young, Directed by Tim Pope

Frames from Neil Young music video "Wonderin'", 1983

Director Tim Pope

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