Nigel DickBy Dominic Punt

Biography

• Born 21 March 1953 – South Yorkshire

• Previous jobs – Clerk, Busker, Cab Driver, Salesman, Waiter

• Qualifications – Degree in Architecture and graduate from Judith Weston’s Acting for Directors

• First feature film – 1986 (P.I. Private Investigations)

• Artists directed – Britney Spears, Oasis, Il Divo, Elton John, S Club, REM

Timeline of videos1983 "I Think I'll Get My Haircut" Jona Lewie1984 "Mothers Talk" Tears For Fears "Shout "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid 1985 "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" Tears For Fears "Head over Heels "I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording) "Living on the Borderline" Smash Palace 1987 "Welcome to the Jungle" Guns N' Roses 1988 "Sweet Child o' Mine" "Paradise City" "Rocket" Def Leppard1989 "Patience" Guns N' Roses 1992 "TV Crimes" Black Sabbath 1993 "Right By Your Side" Enuff Z'Nuff1994 "Rock 'n' Roll Star" Oasis 1995 "Wonderwall" 1996 "Falling into You" Celine Dion "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" "Tattva" Kula Shaker "Wide Open Space" Mansun"Don't Look Back in Anger" Oasis "Champagne Supernova" "Slang" Def LeppardWork It Out"

1997 "As Long as You Love Me" Backstreet Boys "All I Have To Give" "Push" Matchbox Twenty "Gone Away" The Offspring "How's It Going to Be" Third Eye Blind 1998 "Don't Go Away" Oasis "Shorty (You Keep Playing with My Mind)" Imajin featuring Keith Murray "Only When I Sleep" The Corrs"...Baby One More Time" Britney Spears "'Cruel Summer" Ace of Base "I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You" Marc Anthony & Tina Arena 1999 "At My Most Beautiful" R.E.M. "Sometimes" Britney Spears "(You Drive Me) Crazy" "I'm Outta Love" Anastacia"Believe" Cher "Don't Say You Love Me" M2M "Strong Enough Cher "Me, Myself & I" Vitamin C 2000 "Oops!... I Did It Again" Britney Spears "I Think I'm in Love With You" Jessica Simpson Swear It Again" (US Version) Westlife"Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" Fuel "Breathless" The Corrs"Innocent" Fuel Alive" S Club "Pretty Boy" M2M "I Wanna Be with You" Mandy Moore

2001 "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" Train "Cowboys & Kisses" Anastacia"Drowning" Backstreet Boys "Astounded" Tantric "Aroma" Pru"For You" Staind2002 "Too Bad" Nickelback"Never Again" Nickelback"Hero" Chad Kroeger (featuring Josey Scott) "That's What Girls Do" No Secrets "Kids in America" 2003 "Someday" Nickelback2004 "Out of the Blue" Delta Goodrem"Vindicated" Dashboard Confessional(Spider-Man 2 soundtrack) "Broken" Seether (featuring Amy Lee) "Angel" The Corrs"Everything to Me" Brooke Hogan 2005 "Far Away" Nickelback"Blind" by Lifehouse"Dancing" Mai Kuraki"Photograph" Nickelback"Stickwitu" Pussycat Dolls 2006 "Always on Your Side" Sheryl Crow & Sting "Savin' Me" Nickelback"Rock On" Def Leppard"Time of Our Lives" Il Divo & Toni Braxton 2007 "Better Than Me" Hinder 2008 "Absolutely Positively" Anastacia"Gotta Be Somebody" Nickelback"Underneath the Same Sky" Kenny Loggins2009 "I'd Come for You" Nickelback“

"If Today Was Your Last Day" "Never Gonna Be Alone" "I Love This Town" Clive Gregson"Constant As The Wind" Carl Verheyen"First There Is A Mountain" Kenny Loggins2010 "Give Me a Sign" Breaking Benjamin "Ambitions" Joe McElderry"Monster High Fright Song" Monster High "This Afternoon" Nickelback"Fever" Bullet for My Valentine "Bittersweet Memories" "Pretend[disambiguation needed]" Destinee & Paris "Not a Love Song" Wonderland "Lose My Mind The Wanted 2011 "Bittersweet" Clive Gregson"The Road Divides"Live DVD Carl Verheyen

"Wranglin'" 3 Boxes "Gold Forever" The Wanted "Starlight" Wonderland "The Last Goodbye" David Cook "Something To Say" The Brilliant Things "Give" LeAnn Rimes 2012 "Forbidden Kiss" Frank Gambale"Lullaby" [Nickelback"Start of Something Good" Daughtry"Bang, Bang" Beth Hart 2013 "Borrowed" LeAnn Rimes "Spirit of Julia" Carl Verheyen"These Things You Do" Billie Rainbird"My Kind of Girl" Clive Gregson2014 "A Billion Girls" Elyar Fox "Dirt" Florida Georgia Line

Career in music video

• He began his career in the record business working at Stiff Records, where he stayed for five years working as a Press Officer with Madness, Ian Dury, Lene Lovich and The Plasmatics. In the early 1980s he moved to Phonogram Records. While at Phonogram he directed the original Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?", starring Boy George, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Sting, Bono, members of Duran Duran, and others.

• In 1986, he co-founded Propaganda Films, which became a major production company for commercials and music videos.

• In 1999, he directed MTV's first made-for-TV feature 2gether. The film spawned a TV series and two albums. Dick co-wrote a number of songs on the first album which reached the US Top-40 chart. In 2003 he directed Seeing Double for Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment, which starred British pop act S Club 7.

Links to Videos

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE – Do They Know It’s Christmas

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZXHBgjQjNM – Drowning

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J-ZzSKNW_8 - Ambitions

His music video style

• Nigel Dick uses the performance style commonly, with a lot of lip syncing and not much concept.