Tim Pope

About The Author

Tim Pope is one of the most influential and distinctive music-video directors of the MTV era. Best known for his long-running creative partnership with The Cure, Pope also directed iconic videos for Queen, David Bowie, Wham!, Talk Talk, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Neil Young, Hall & Oates, and many others. His work helped define the visual grammar of pop music at a moment when image and sound fused into a new global art form. I Shoot Rock Stars is his candid, first-person account of that era and his life inside it. 

Books by Tim Pope

I Shoot Rock Stars

The Wild Adventures of a Music Video Director

By Tim Pope
Foreword by Robert Smith
The outrageous insider story of how MTV-era music videos were invented, told by the director who helped create the visual language of pop superstardom while shooting videos for the world’s biggest artists—David Bowie, Queen, The Cure, The Bangles, Wham!, Hall & Oates, and more—at the heigh...
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