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Bradley Friedman (born 1955) is an American film producer, visual music artist, and event creator. He was involved in the emergence of the Los Angeles techno music and punk rock scene in the 1980s. He produced the first music videos and cover artwork for Berlin's multi-platinum debut album, "Pleasure Victim ". Pleasure Victim captivated American audiences and was released worldwide by Geffen Records on January 26, 1983. Friedman followed by producing hit projects with The Screamers, Stacey Q and The Cramps. Friedman later directed a series of commercially successful clips with Durran Duran, Missing Person, and Bryan Ferry. His lost Ramones concert classic is presently featured in the HBO series "Sonic Highways".

Friedman's work was spotlighted at Moca in 2012 which showcased California's early punk and media art scene. His pieces where the focus of the film program 'Strange Notes and Nervous Breakdowns' as part of the museum's 'Under the Big Black Sun' exhibition. According to the LA Times "UCLA students in the '70s and early '80s captured bands on campus and in clubs, Bradley Friedman directed an 111/2-minute video of the Screamers in 1981 performing "Eva Braun," a synth-punk song named for Hitler's mistress, in front of TV monitors. He also shot the stern and synthesized Anti-Sex League in 1980 playing a song with an unpublishable title enhanced with blurred-out images from a porn film.http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/12/entertainment/la-et-guidefeature12-20120112

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Friedman was one of the first artists to use 1/2" black and white videotape. He documented the inception of punk rock at the Whiskey, Drop Out, and underground tv studios. At UCLA he launched the worlds first music video television magazine show titled "Modern Music". Ken Scott, Devo, Missing Persons, and Murry the K was all guests on the show which ran on Timer Warner and was a precursor to MTV.

In the early 1980's Friedman was credited for conceiving the worlds first "International Visual Music Festival at UCLA. He successfully produced the week long event that was credited with bringing together the worlds of film, television, and music video artists for the first time to talk about the past, present and future of music motion graphics. The event was chronicled by Billboad, Cashbox, and the LA times as a groundbreaking event.

In 1991 Oliver Stone selected Friedman to be the official advisory on his legendary Doors project along with Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101761/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Friedman has also photographed Public Image, Rodney Bingenheimer, Fleetwood Mac, and a host of others. He was a key player in the Los Angeles underground club scene and worked with Rodney Bingenheimer at the seminal club that he owned called "Drop Out"

References[edit] Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_Victim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Bingenheimer http://www.hbo.com/foo-fighters-sonic-highways#/ http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/12/entertainment/la-et-guidefeature12-20120112 http://sites.moca.org/blacksun/ id=YCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT45&lpg=PT45&dq=UCLA+International+Visual+music+festival&source=bl&ots=ubD7M0l86V&sig=aWgGv_zMUR7eX7HFOScXeEiLCpA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UttzVLatK8fvigK2uYDgBA&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=UCLA%20International%20Visual%20music%20festival&f=false http://la.siggraph.org/presenter/ron-hays http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1071892/

External Links [edit] https://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/195956-strange-notes-and-nervous-breakdowns-punk-and-media-art-1974-1981?tab=EVENT https://www.kcet.org/socal-focus/media-arts-preview-punks-pictures-and-personal-environments https://sites.google.com/view/bradley-friedman-external-link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBuznJPaJ4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_-u3SlYQD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdlqWcGn_s </https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9f73ijmHE </http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1981/BB-1981-10-31.pdf=false