Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight

What this video is

Released in autumn 1986, 'Everybody Have Fun Tonight' arrived at the apex of MTV's cultural dominance, when a visually distinctive music video could meaningfully accelerate a single's chart trajectory. The song reached No. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 during the 1986 Christmas season and topped the Canadian RPM chart in January 1987 — commercial performance directly amplified by heavy MTV rotation. Godley & Creme,…

Why it matters

This video is a canonical artifact of mid-1980s British new wave's MTV crossover moment. Its Godley & Creme-directed flip-book editing technique became one of the defining visual signatures of the era, influencing subsequent pop and alternative video directors. As a pairing of a kinetically…

The director

Kevin Godley (b. 7 Oct 1945, Prestwich, Lancashire) and Lol Creme (b. 19 Sep 1947, Prestwich, Lancashire) are English musicians and music video directors. Former members of art-rock band 10cc, they left in 1976 to record as a duo. After directing their first…