When the boys “stop and say hello” early in the video, just try not to be moved. The MTV Classic: “Penny Lane,” one of the first clips that showed that videos could be imaginative works of art. Why They’re Video Icons: The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night, predated MTV’s arrival by 17 years, but it pointed the way: The Fab Four received video vanguard awards at the first VMAs for “essentially inventing the music video.”
