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This is a list of the first music videos broadcast on MTV's first day, August 1, 1981. MTV's first day on the air was rebroadcast on VH1 Classic in 2006 and again in 2011 (the latter celebrating the channel's 30th anniversary).
The music video for this song was the fourteenth video played on MTV's first day of broadcast (August 1, 1981 ()), [1] [2] [3] making it the first video by a Canadian recording artist ever played on MTV. [3] The final chorus of the album version includes the song's title in French: "Seulement entre toi et moi".
MTV's first logo, used from August 1, 1981, ... their song "Rat Race" was the 58th video on the station's first broadcast day. [56] MTV ... The first video played on ...
At midnight on Aug. 1, 1981, Martha Quinn, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson stood inside the Loft restaurant in Fort Lee, N.J., to watch ...
When MTV premiered in 1981, music videos were a novelty; a network that played them 24/7 appealed even to cynical Gen Xers. ... "MTV doesn't play music anymore" is a complaint nearly as old as the ...
It was the first music video shown on MTV in the US, airing at 12:01 a.m. on 1 August 1981, and the first video shown on MTV Classic in the UK on 1 March 2010. The song has received several critical accolades, such as being ranked number 40 on VH1's "100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the '80s". [2]
In 1980, he had a role in the music video for David Bowie’s “Fashion” a year before MTV launched. After a chance meeting with MTV’s CEO, he became a VJ, and stayed with the channel until 1987.
On Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time, [7] [8] MTV was launched with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll", spoken by John Lack and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia (which took place earlier that year) and the launch of Apollo 11.