Secondary Research – Nigel

Dick By Owen Howard

Nigel DickO Born 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire,

EnglandO English music video and film director, writer and

musician based in Los Angeles, California. O He directed the Band Aid video "Do They Know It's

Christmas?", as well as over 500 other music videos.O Educated at Gresham's School, Holt, in the East of

England and the University of Bath,O Dick began completing a degree in architecture before

pursuing a career in the record business.

CareerO Before success in the music and film industries, Dick worked as an

architectural draughtsman, a clerk, a busker, a cab driver, a construction worker, a farm labourer, a motorcycle messenger, a salesman, a waiter, and served a spell in the Sewage Division of the Anglian Water Authority.

O He began his career in the record business working at Stiff Records, where he stayed for five years working as a Press Officer with Madness, Ian Dury, Lene Lovich and The Plasmatics.

O While at Phonogram he directed the original Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?". In 1986, he moved to Los Angeles to direct his first feature film, P.I. Private Investigations (1987), starring Ray Sharkey and Martin Balsam.

O In 1986, he co-founded Propaganda Films, which became a major production company for commercials and music videos.

O In 1999, he directed MTV's first made-for-TV feature 2gether. The film spawned a TV series and two albums. Dick co-wrote a number of songs on the first album which reached the US Top-40 chart.

Continued…O In 2003 he directed Seeing Double for Simon Fuller's 19

Entertainment, which starred British pop act S Club 7.O In 2008, E! Television announced that Dick would be co-

exec producing an observational documentary TV series starring Pamela Anderson titled: Pam: Girl On The Loose.

Awards Nigel Has CollectedO Dick's film work has won three MTV awards, two

Billboard Awards and three MVPA awards. O His videos have won a BRIT Award and been nominated

for more than twenty MTV Video Music Awards, sixteen MuchMusic Video Awards and a Grammy Award.

O His personal nominations include a Cable Ace Award.O In 2000, the MVPA (Music Video Producers Association)

awarded him and the other founders of Propaganda Films a joint Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012 the MVPA awarded him his own Lifetime Achievement Award for his hard work and dedication to the business.

Singers/Bands he has directed music videos for:The artists and bands Dick has directed to date:O The OffspringO Britney Spears O Guns N' Roses O Oasis O Backstreet BoysO Green DayO Elton JohnO Paul McCartneyO Tina TurnerO REMO S ClubO Pussycat DollsO Ozzy Osbourne

The type of genre Nigel Dick specialises in

O Nigel has directed many music videos and has helped many stars become successful along the way, including Britney Spears and S-club however, the type of genre that Nigel Dick specialises in is ‘rock’ and ‘pop’. The reason for this could be because he feels as though he has more knowledge of these genres, or it could be because he understands how to direct a video in this way. Rock and Pop might be natural to him which is why he has directed these types of videos, meaning that he knows how to target a specific audience when directing a pop or rock music video. Ozzy

Osbourne