50 Greatest Art Videos on YouTube

Youtube needs no special mentioning in the world of internet users and video lovers. Entertainment and visual clips have never been shared so largely and perhaps hysterically before. So when Ajesh Patalay selects 50 of the rarest and fascinating arts video footages of the time bygone, we couldn’t but share them with you.

You will get Jimi Hendrix to Madonna, Mahabharata to Oasis’ debut with supersonic.

Hope you will like it. Share with us the ones you think should have been included in the list. Because when its youtube 50 is a very small number to chose favorites, no?

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In the Meantime Here are Our Top 5 which is a Must Watch for You…

Mahabharata, 1989

Acclaimed director Brook worked on his adaptation of the epic Sanskrit poem for up to 10 years before it reached the stage in 1985. The abridged TV mini-series aired a few years later. Key to its vision was its international multicultural cast, the point being how universal this story was. A marvel that so much of Brook’s almost six-hour TV version has been posted on the web.

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Madonna at the Danceteria, 1982

The first ever live performance of ‘Everybody’, Madge’s first single, at the downtown nightclub where she was a regular and got a demo of the song played. Her three backing dancers - in matching shorts, blazers and pork pie hats - were her friend Erica Bell, former roommate Martin Burgoyne and black dancer Bags. Gotta love those moves.

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Jimi Hendrix 1968

The first ever live performance of ‘Everybody’, Madge’s first single, at the downtown nightclub where she was a regular and got a demo of the song played. Her three backing dancers - in matching shorts, blazers and pork pie hats - were her friend Erica Bell, former roommate Martin Burgoyne and black dancer Bags. Gotta love those moves.

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Joan Baez and Bob Dylan sing ‘With God on Our Side’, 1963

Around this time Baez and Dylan became an item off stage too but on stage it was really this duet at the Newport Folk Festival that set the tone for their many future collaborations. Plaintive and heartrending, their voices are a perfect complement. Their personal relationship ended a few years later, thankfully not to the detriment of their professional relationship on stage.

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Kurt Russell’s Star Wars audition, 1975

Just think. Kurt Russell could have been Han Solo (’Look at those radiation readouts. It’s impossible!’) if Harrison Ford hadn’t completely outclassed him. Same goes for drippy teen idol Robby Benson up for the role of Luke. For Mark Hammill, alas, we now count our blessings. Extra titbit: George Lucas and Brian De Palma held joint auditions for Star Wars and Carrie; rumour has it Lucas’s first pick for Princess Leia was actually Sissy Spacek. You can see Carrie Fisher’s audition for Leia too

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