Modern Musicology #172 – MTV 45th Anniversary
MTV 45th Anniversary MTV launched 45 years ago on August 1, 1981 with “Video Killed the Radio Star.” To celebrate this big anniversary, we spend time reminiscing about the glory days of Music Television by talking about our favorite music videos — and a few of our least favorites. We mention some of the obvious big hits, like “Take on Me”, “Sledgehammer”, “Thriller”, and “Rio”, but we also hit a lot of deep cuts. Most of those deep cuts come from MTV’s long-running show 120 Minutes, a show we all loved. Then we talk about…
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