# Nigel Dick

Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953) is an English music video director and filmmaker. Originally from Catterick, North Yorkshire, he is based in Los Angeles, California.
He has directed music videos for artists such as Britney Spears, Toto, Band Aid and Oasis.

## Education

Educated at Gresham's School in Holt and the University of Bath, Dick began to work for a degree in architecture before pursuing a career in the record business. He has studied mime and is also a graduate of Judith Weston's Acting for Directors class.

## Career

Before success in the music and film industries, Dick worked as an architectural draughtsman, a clerk, a busker, a cab driver, a construction worker, a farm labourer, a motorcycle messenger, a salesman, a waiter, and served a spell in the Sewage Division of the Anglian Water Authority.
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, and while there directed the original Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?". In 1986, Dick moved to Los Angeles to direct his first feature film, P.I. Private Investigations (1987), starring Ray Sharkey and Martin Balsam. Since then, he has directed more than twenty documentaries and feature films and over three hundred music videos.
In 1986, he co-founded Propaganda Films, which became a major production company for commercials and music videos.
Dick directed the Britney Spears videos "...Baby One More Time", "(You Drive Me) Crazy", "Sometimes", and "Oops!... I Did It Again", the Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and over 500 other music videos. Other groups whose videos he has directed include Backstreet Boys and Guns N' Roses.
In 1999, Dick 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.
In 2008, E! Television announced that Dick would be co-exec producing an observational documentary TV series starring Pamela Anderson titled: Pam: Girl On The Loose.
The artists and bands Dick has directed to date include The Offspring, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Jessica Simpson, Cher, Breaking Benjamin, Anastacia, Carly Simon, Def Leppard, Steve Lukather, Nickelback, Oasis, Kula Shaker, Toni Braxton, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Il Divo, Elton John, Ricky Martin, Paul McCartney, Amy Lee, Tina Turner, Celine Dion, REM, Gloria Estefan, S Club, Pussycat Dolls, Tears for Fears and Ozzy Osbourne.

## Awards

Dick's film work has won three MTV awards, two Billboard Awards and three MVPA awards. His videos have won a BRIT Award and been nominated for more than twenty MTV Video Music Awards, sixteen MuchMusic Video Awards and a Grammy Award. His personal nominations include a Cable Ace Award.
In 2000, Dick was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in the MPVA Awards.

## Musician

Dick was a founding member of pub-rock act and Stiff Records house band The Stiff All Stars. The band was briefly signed to Stiff Records competitor Chiswick Records in 1980 and subsequently released four singles. Band line-up was Andy Murray (guitar, vocals), Nigel Dick (bass, vocals), Pete Glenister (guitar), Nicky Graham (keys), Nick Garnett (drums) Hugh Attwooll (drums). Despite the band's name, only Murray and Dick actually worked at Stiff Records; Glenister went on to write and produce for Alison Moyet, Kirsty MacColl, Darius; Graham went on to write and produce Bros. The band appeared on TV, toured frequently and supported Jools Holland, Any Trouble, Madness amongst others. Jamie West-Oram featured in an early line-up but left to join The Fixx. Thirty years after the release of their first single The Stiff All Stars released their first album '12.5 on a 10 Point Scale' which featured new tracks and previously unreleased songs featuring Jeff Porcaro (Toto) and Carl Verheyen (Supertramp).
Dick also appeared four times as a backing musician on BBC's famous 'Top of the Pops': three times with Jona Lewie ('Kitchen at Parties', 'Stop The Cavalry') and once with The Snowmen ('Hokey Cokey').
As a guitarist, he has released three albums:
* Flesh, Blood, Wood, Steel
* All Stars And All Sorts
* Weird Stain

## Traveller

Dick travels by bicycle and has made cycle tours in fourteen countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and various European countries, including the United Kingdom.

## Selected music video credits (as director)

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 1983 | "I Think I'll Get My Haircut" | Jona Lewie |
| 1984 | "Mothers Talk" | Tears for Fears |
| 1984 | "Shout" | Tears for Fears |
| 1984 | "Do They Know It's Christmas?" | Band Aid |
| 1985 | "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" | Tears for Fears |
| 1985 | "Head over Heels" | Tears for Fears |
| 1985 | "I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)" | Tears for Fears |
| 1985 | "Living on the Borderline" | Smash Palace |
| 1987 | "Welcome to the Jungle" | Guns N' Roses |
| 1988 | "Sweet Child o' Mine" | Guns N' Roses |
| 1988 | "Paradise City" | Guns N' Roses |
| 1988 | "Rocket" | Def Leppard |
| 1989 | "Patience" | Guns N' Roses |
| 1990 | "Love Will Lead You Back" | Taylor Dayne |
| 1992 | "TV Crimes" | Black Sabbath |
| 1993 | "Right By Your Side" | Enuff Z'Nuff |
| 1993 | "Another Night" | Real McCoy |
| 1993 | "Down in a Hole" | Alice in Chains |
| 1994 | "Rock 'n' Roll Star" | Oasis |
| 1995 | "Wonderwall" | Oasis |
| 1995 | "Run Away" US version | Real McCoy |
| 1996 | "Falling into You" | Celine Dion |
| 1996 | "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" | Celine Dion |
| 1996 | "Tattva" | Kula Shaker |
| 1996 | "Wide Open Space" | Mansun |
| 1996 | "Don't Look Back in Anger" | Oasis |
| 1996 | "Champagne Supernova" | Oasis |
| 1996 | "A Thousand Times a Day" | Patty Loveless |
| 1996 | "Slang" | Def Leppard |
| 1996 | "Work It Out" | Def Leppard |
| 1997 | "As Long as You Love Me" | Backstreet Boys |
| 1997 | "All I Have to Give" TV Version / DVD Version | Backstreet Boys |
| 1997 | "Push" | Matchbox Twenty |
| 1997 | "When the Angels Sing | Social Distortion |
| 1997 | "Gone Away" | The Offspring |
| 1997 | "How's It Going to Be" | Third Eye Blind |
| 1997 | "I Want You" | Savage Garden |
| 1997 | "To the Moon and Back" | Savage Garden |
| 1998 | "Don't Go Away" | Oasis |
| 1998 | "Shorty (You Keep Playing with My Mind)" | Imajin featuring Keith Murray |
| 1998 | "Only When I Sleep" | The Corrs |
| 1998 | "...Baby One More Time" | Britney Spears |
| 1998 | "Cruel Summer" | Ace of Base |
| 1998 | "When the Lights Go Out" US version | Five |
| 1998 | "I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You" | Marc Anthony & Tina Arena |
| 1999 | "At My Most Beautiful" | R.E.M. |
| 1999 | "Sometimes" | Britney Spears |
| 1999 | "(You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop! Remix)" | Britney Spears |
| 1999 | "I'm Outta Love" | Anastacia |
| 1999 | "Believe" | Cher |
| 1999 | "Don't Say You Love Me" | M2M |
| 1999 | "Strong Enough" | Cher |
| 1999 | "Me, Myself & I" | Vitamin C |
| 2000 | "Oops!... I Did It Again" | Britney Spears |
| 2000 | "I Think I'm in Love With You" | Jessica Simpson |
| 2000 | "Swear It Again" (U.S. version) | Westlife |
| 2000 | "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" | Fuel |
| 2000 | "Breathless" | The Corrs |
| 2000 | "Innocent" | Fuel |
| 2000 | "Tell Me" | Mel B |
| 2000 | "Pretty Boy" | M2M |
| 2000 | "I Wanna Be with You" | Mandy Moore |
| 2001 | "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" | Train |
| 2001 | "Cowboys & Kisses" | Anastacia |
| 2001 | "Bad Day" | Fuel |
| 2001 | "Drowning" Second Version | Backstreet Boys |
| 2001 | "Astounded" | Tantric |
| 2001 | "Aroma" | Pru |
| 2001 | "For You" | Staind |
| 2002 | "Too Bad" | Nickelback |
| 2002 | "Never Again" | Nickelback |
| 2002 | "Hero" | Chad Kroeger (featuring Josey Scott) |
| 2002 | "That's What Girls Do" | No Secrets |
| 2002 | "Kids in America" | No Secrets |
| 2002 | "Alive" | S Club |
| 2003 | "Someday" | Nickelback |
| 2003 | "Like What | Tommi (group) |
| 2004 | "Out of the Blue" | Delta Goodrem |
| 2004 | "Vindicated" | Dashboard Confessional (Spider-Man 2 soundtrack) |
| 2004 | "Broken" | Seether (featuring Amy Lee) |
| 2004 | "Angel" | The Corrs |
| 2004 | "Everything to Me" | Brooke Hogan |
| 2005 | "Far Away" | Nickelback |
| 2005 | "Blind" | Lifehouse |
| 2005 | "Dancing" | Mai Kuraki |
| 2005 | "Photograph" | Nickelback |
| 2005 | "Stickwitu" | Pussycat Dolls |
| 2006 | "Always on Your Side" | Sheryl Crow & Sting |
| 2006 | "Savin' Me" | Nickelback |
| 2006 | "Rock On" | Def Leppard |
| 2006 | "The Time of Our Lives" | Il Divo & Toni Braxton |
| 2007 | "Better Than Me" | Hinder |
| 2008 | "Absolutely Positively" | Anastacia |
| 2008 | "Gotta Be Somebody" | Nickelback |
| 2008 | "Underneath the Same Sky" | Kenny Loggins |
| 2009 | "I'd Come for You" | Nickelback |
| 2009 | "If Today Was Your Last Day" | Nickelback |
| 2009 | "Never Gonna Be Alone" | Nickelback |
| 2009 | "I Love This Town" | Clive Gregson |
| 2009 | "Constant as the Wind" | Carl Verheyen |
| 2009 | "First There Is a Mountain" | Kenny Loggins |
| 2010 | "Give Me a Sign" | Breaking Benjamin |
| 2010 | "Ambitions" | Joe McElderry |
| 2010 | "Monster High Fright Song" | Monster High |
| 2010 | "This Afternoon" | Nickelback |
| 2010 | "Fever" | Bullet for My Valentine |
| 2010 | "Bittersweet Memories" | Bullet for My Valentine |
| 2010 | "Pretend" | Destinee & Paris |
| 2010 | "Not a Love Song" | Wonderland |
| 2010 | "Lose My Mind" | The Wanted |
| 2011 | "Bittersweet" | Clive Gregson |
| 2011 | "The Road Divides" Live DVD | Carl Verheyen |
| 2011 | "Wranglin'" | 3 Boxes |
| 2011 | "Gold Forever" | The Wanted |
| 2011 | "Starlight" | Wonderland |
| 2011 | "The Last Goodbye" | David Cook |
| 2011 | "Something To Say" | The Brilliant Things |
| 2011 | "Give" | LeAnn Rimes |
| 2012 | "Forbidden Kiss" | Frank Gambale |
| 2012 | "Lullaby" | Nickelback |
| 2012 | "Start of Something Good" | Daughtry |
| 2012 | "Bang, Bang" | Beth Hart |
| 2013 | "Borrowed" | LeAnn Rimes |
| 2013 | "Spirit of Julia" | Carl Verheyen |
| 2013 | "These Things You Do" | Billie Rainbird |
| 2013 | "Cantik Calls" | Billie Rainbird |
| 2013 | "My Kind of Girl" | Clive Gregson |
| 2014 | "A Billion Girls" | Elyar Fox |
| 2014 | "Dirt" | Florida Georgia Line |
| 2014 | "Wastin' Gas" | Dallas Smith |
| 2014 | "All I Want for Christmas is You" | Fifth Harmony |
| 2015 | "Lifted" | Dallas Smith |
| 2015 | "She Keeps Me Up" | Nickelback |
| 2015 | "Get 'Em Up" | Nickelback |
| 2015 | "Satellite" | Nickelback |
| 2015 | "Kids with Cars" | Dallas Smith |
| 2016 | "Behind the Sun" | Fastball |
| 2017 | "I Will Never Let You Down" | Fastball |
| 2017 | "We're On Our Way" | Fastball |
| 2017 | "Song on Fire" | Nickelback |
| 2022 | "Those Days" | Nickelback |

## Credits as director (feature films)

* Berlin Calling (2014) Berlin Calling
* Pam: Girl on the Loose (2008)
* In Search of the Lanterne Rouge (currently in production) rougefilm Archived 27 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
* Callback (2005) callbackthemovie Archived 28 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
* Seeing Double (2003)
* 2gether (2000)
* The Elevator (1996) (co-director, one segment)
* Dead Connection (1993)
* Deadly Intent (1988)
* P.I. Private Investigations (1987)

## Credits as screenwriter (feature films)

* Berlin Calling (2014) (co-writer) Berlin Calling
* Stella Roxx and The Killer Bats From Hell (2006)
* Sidewalking (2004)
* Callback (1999)
* Everlasting (1995)
* Country Lyfe (1994)
* Hangman (1994)
* Introducing Eric (1993) (story by Nigel Dick)
* One Week in April (1990)
* Deadly Intent (1988) (uncredited)
* P.I. Private Investigations (1987) (story by Nigel Dick)