Queen and music videos

In more than one source I have seen the surviving members of Queen say they invented music videos when they had to pre-record them miming to Bohemian Rhapsody to later re-play on Top of the Pops in 1975. It says in their Greatest Hits Dvd booklet: "there were no promotional videos for the first four Queen singles; the medium had not yet been invented".

Aside from the fact that this is just plain wrong, it's also arrogant because they know it's wrong. The Beatles were making promotional videos in the mid 60s so that Ed Sullivan could play them on his American tv show when they weren't in the US. Aside from the obvious - the Beatles made three movies that revolved around music videos (yes, even by today's definition) - they also made free-standing ones for Rain, Paperback Writer, Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields: and these are off the top of my head. And, yes, all made before 1968: before Queen were even a band.

Never mind that Frank Zappa had made '200 Motels' and even Disney had made 'Fantasia'. Never mind that, depending on how far you care to go back, the music video was invented by Eisenstein. Nope, Queen invented the music video. In 1975.