VIDEO’S HISTORY IN COUNTY

Granted, the venue for this glorious slice of 1980s pop isn’t strictly in Kent. But we are only talking a couple of miles away, and he was one of the great Eighties pop stars, so we’re including it here.

Fresh from the success of chart-toppers Stand and Deliver and Prince Charming, Ant Rap was, bizarrely, one of the first rap songs to hit the top 10 - reaching number three. Filmed on location at Bodiam Castle - a stone’s throw from the Kent border with East Sussex - it also stars Lulu as his love interest and sees the Dandy Highwayman dressed in a suit of armour in an odd little flick which also sees him don American football gear and, briefly, becoming Bruce Lee, for reasons probably lost in the mists of time. Writing in his autobiography, Ant modestly says of the song’s release: “Although I wasn’t entirely sure about the song, it was easy to believe that anything I released would be a hit at the time.”

Critically panned, it’s by no means his finest hour, but you can’t knock a man for trying his luck at the peak of his fame.

There is probably an unwritten rule somewhere which says if shooting a pop video at Dungeness, do so in black and white. Which brings us to Ms Minaj and her ‘not safe for listening to at work’ single (due to some rather fruity language) which was filmed in 2012.

Rather following in the footsteps of The Prodigy’s effort, she heads from the shingle to Denge for some moody shots in front of those impressive acoustic mirrors before the black and white lifts for a bit of good old colour as the song nears its conclusion.

There is no denying Dungeness does rather lend itself to video shoots with its ramshackle huts, shingle shore and boats. And if you watch carefully you can also spot the lighthouse in the promo clip too. The song itself climbed all the way to number 107 in the charts (yes, that’s one hundred and seven).