Fact #63692
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MTV, a new 24 hour video music station, is transmitted for the first time on cable stations in the USA. The first track played is Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles.Full article:
John Taylor (Duran Duran) : Thank God for MTV! It brought a new level of energy to the charts. Youth became important. MTV was forced to have a new agenda because it couldn't play the songs that radio was playing. Had there been videos for Air Supply and Christopher Cross, they would have played them. But they didn't exist, so they had to look to the newer music - artists like Duran Duran and Ultravox - who were making these videos.
It definitely put us in the homes of millions of Americans. But we were good for video, too. We were a textbook case of how you could promote a band using the medium, and we evolved very quickly to really show what could be done.
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It definitely put us in the homes of millions of Americans. But we were good for video, too. We were a textbook case of how you could promote a band using the medium, and we evolved very quickly to really show what could be done.
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