STEVE O’BRIEN
Since helming his first music promo with The Jam’s Strange Town in 1979, Steve Barron would become one of the coming decade’s most in-demand video directors. Having cut his film-making teeth as assistant cameraman on such mega-budget blockbusters as Superman and A Bridge Too Far the Dublin-born Barron would soon find himself at the heart of London’s thriving music scene. Over the next decade he would be responsible for such era-defining videos as Billie Jean, Take On Me and Money For Nothing, before upping sticks to Hollywood and establishing himself on the big screen with movies including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Electric Dreams and Coneheads. Now primarily working in TV (his next project is a remake of Around The World In Eighty Days), we caught up with the video veteran to talk to him about his 40-plus-year career…