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Every music video you have ever seen—from the choreographed chaos of OK Go to the surrealist romps of The 1975 —owes a debt to this five-minute sequence. It decoupled music from realism and attached it to spectacle .
The film is credited with inventing the modern . Richard Lester’s innovative techniques—using up to six cameras for musical performances and cutting footage to the beat—pioneered a visual language that remains standard today.