It is hard to believe, but it was 35 years ago today that MTV debuted and changed music forever. It also changed me forever. When we got cable, MTV was the channel I had to watch. It was the channel that shaped my music tastes and helped make me so obsessive about music.
It allowed us to not only listen to our favorite music, but actually get to see our favorite artists. We no longer had to wait for American Bandstand to come on or get the latest music magazine to see the artists. We could watch them every day, all day in their videos.
The first video played on MTV was The Buggles – “Video Killed the Radio Star”. This was the most appropriate opening video they could have possibly chosen. Although it didn’t really help their career as I couldn’t name another song they did. It did make them famous forever for being known as the song that was the first video on MTV. If you want to see a list of all the videos played on the 1st day, click on this link to wikipedia.
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