MTV Turns 40 Years Old
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Music General
geewizzz — 4 years ago(August 01, 2021 03:28 AM)
MTV launched on August 1 1981 - 40 Years ago at 12:01 AM Eastern Time
First 12 videos shown on MTV:
Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles
You Better Run - Pat Benatar
She Won't Dance With Me - Rod Stewart
You Better You Bet - The Who
Little Suzi's on The Up - Ph.D.
We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
Time Heals - Todd Rundgren
Take It on The Run - REO Speedwagon (The video was interrupted after 12 seconds due to technical difficulties)
Rockin' the Paradise - Styx
When Things Go Wrong - Robin Lane and The Chartbusters
History Never Repeats - Split Enz
MTV started out with just a few vids and seemed to give Rod Stewart the most airplay in the beginning.
A month later, it would dramatically change expanding its repertoire and leading the second British Invasion as it became more widely available to cable TV subscribers.
Though it wasn't limited to New Wave…it continued to be a mix of Album Rock & UK Top of The Pops as well as featuring live performance clips and full concerts on weekends.
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Deluded Juice — 4 years ago(August 01, 2021 03:51 AM)
Before eMpTV bands and singers for some strange reason made these films of them singing and playing and I dunno who aired them or where they were shown.
Then after eMpTV they would make videos just to be shown on there and other shows that would feature music videos on other shows.
Sometimes they would even get fancy using whatever state of the art effects they had to create strange new vids.
And then they would get talked about.
"Did you see the new Cars vid? How crazy was that?"
"And how about that Billy Idol? His was really cool!"
And all videos are is just commercials and advertising for a music act.
eMpTV is the first 24/365 advertising channel.
Now reality TV has killed the video star.
