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First female artist and first lead guitarist (Neil Giraldo) 3 "She Won't Dance With Me" Rod Stewart: 1/2 Bassist Phil Chen was the first non-white musician to appear on MTV [4] 4 "You Better You Bet" The Who: 1/5 5 "Little Suzi's on the Up" Ph.D. 1/3 No sound for the first 7 seconds of the video, then it plays normally. 6 "We Don't Talk Anymore"
VH1 is an American basic cable television network that is part of the MTV Entertainment Group; itself part of Paramount Global's networks division.Launched on January 1, 1985, VH1 (which was an acronym for Video Hits One) originally focused on music and, later, pop culture-related programming aimed at older audiences than its sibling channel MTV.
"One" was the first Metallica song for which a music video was created. The music video, directed by Bill Pope and Michael Salomon , debuted on MTV on January 20, 1989. The video, shot in Long Beach, California on December 7, 1988, is almost entirely in black and white , and features the band performing the song in a warehouse.
The accompanying music video was written, directed, and edited by Russell Mulcahy. 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 ...
VH1 Smooth launched on August 1, 1998 as a part of the "Suite" digital package, delaying the initial launch date of July 31, 1998. [2] [3] The channel that focused on smooth jazz, new age, and adult contemporary music. [2] [4] The first music video to play on the channel was a cover of "Makin' Whoopee" by Branford Marsalis. [5]
Elmer Bernstein (/ ˈ b ɜːr n s t iː n / BURN-steen; April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) [1] [2] was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. [3]
VH1 Classic: Music videos primarily from the 1970s and 1980s, but also the 1960s and 1990s, concert footage, vintage movies, and original programming focused on adult hits, classic hits and classic rock music. Rebranded as MTV Classic on August 1, 2016, in honor of MTV's 35th anniversary. VH1 Country: Continuous country music videos.
Steiner was born on February 24, 1923, in New York City, the son of Hungarian-born film composer George Steiner. [2] Steiner was Jewish. [3] He began playing the piano at age six, and at age 13 had expanded his music studies to include the cello and music theory.