Archive for the ‘MTV’ Category
Friday, April 18th, 2008
MTV appeared on the air in August of 1981. However, music videos had been produced for years. There would be several videos from songs released earlier in 1981 that MTV was able to put into heavy rotation quickly. In many cases MTV would help prolong their chart ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Less than two weeks after MTV premiered The Rolling Stones released a single that would rise to number 2 on the singles chart. "Start Me Up" would bring the Stones before a whole new audience and the album, Tattoo You, served as a great follow-up to their more lack-luster ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
In the early days it was apparent that most bands had yet to begin making expensive and glossy videos. As you can see from the first day of MTV programming there were a preponderance of live videos from existing concert shows.
Videos 9 and 10 would come from two of ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
MTV debuted on August 1st, 1981. I had just turned 13 years old and was a music lover. I didn't watch that first day but it wasn't long before I began to tune in regularly. Over the course of the next decade I would tune in almost ...
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