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I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution is a book about the rise of American cable television channel MTV. It was written by music journalists Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum and published in 2011 by Dutton Penguin in the United States. The title is borrowed from a marketing campaign launched by the channel in 1981 ...
I Want My MTV may refer to: The original slogan of the television channel, MTV; A line in the Dire Straits song, "Money for Nothing", which reiterates the MTV slogan; I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, a 2011 book
The song features a guest appearance by Sting who sings the signature falsetto introduction, background vocals and a backing chorus of "I want my MTV". [2] The groundbreaking video was the first to be aired on MTV Europe when the network launched on 1 August 1987. [3]
It's one of pop culture's great questions: Why did MTV, a cable network literally called "Music Television," stop playing music? When MTV premiered in 1981, music videos were a novelty; a network ...
This was the first concert video to be aired on MTV, from REO Speedwagon's Live Infidelity home video release. The video was interrupted after 12 seconds due to technical difficulties. The technical difficulty moment contains only a blank black screen with a 200 Hz tone for a few seconds before going back to MTV's studio. 10 "Rockin' the Paradise"
Alan: The legitimacy came a year into it with the “I Want My MTV” campaign, with Jagger and Townshend and Bowie. That was a genius move on the part of Les Garland and Bob Pittman. …
The "I Want It That Way" singers' "Shape of My Heart" holds the record for video with the most days in the No. 1 spot. The Boy Band Era was so on. The Boy Band Era was so on. Show comments
Some within the music industry criticized what they saw as MTV's homogenization of rock 'n' roll, including the punk band the Dead Kennedys, whose song "M.T.V. – Get Off the Air" was released on their 1985 album Frankenchrist, just as MTV's influence over the music industry was being solidified. [54]