It's not a joke! It's zealous, leftist propaganda/indoctrination, a tool, an existentially, lethal weapon to sane, LEGAL American citizens and this great Constitutional Republic.
yes but you've got it backwards. MTV is the shadow of what youtube is today. But it also funny that YT AI decided to dig up this gem seven years later.
Hahaha yes, this is accurate. I think we can probably squeak in a few more years though. 120 Minutes was still cranking out great music till the early 90s ;)
I was in college when MTV started. It’s really hard to describe today how groundbreaking it was. We were mesmerized by it. When we had parties, MTV was the background not the radio. A shame what became of it
@@manfredmann2766 😬Actually... MTV died crazy eons before THIS TikTok was even noticed. It's merely another nail in the coffin beforehand. Among a # of reasons MTV was established: A go-between of musicians & their fans. The internet evolves to the point where social media becomes more advanced that artists can communicate more directly with their fan base. CZcams has since carried music videos ON DEMAND, which MTV cannot in the same way: it's more like Top 40 Radio with pictures...which is good. 😔Overall: It was the advancing internet, especially CZcams that killed The MTV Star.
@@PeterAngles-ks9fpKickbacks from record companies to get their videos played. But somehow this wasn’t deemed illegal like the Payola scandal 2 decades earlier where they paid DJ’s to play records.
Lol "MTV played NO commercials at all !!!!" YES they did. Immediately following this 10 minute part was a commercial for "The Bulk" a three-ring binder and a following commercial during this same broadcast was an ad for Superman II. I have no idea why you think MTV didn't have commercials but it absolutely did.
@@nikolewitt3752 People are confusing cable with HBO, Showtime and other subscription add-ons for cable. MTV always had commercials and was available on basic cable for most areas. HBO, Showtime and Cinemax were commercial free, cost extra and usually required a second cable box. The rest of cable had commercials.
Us Gen X saw a lot of great things, I was born in 72 and still have my 1977 Atari 2600. I now surround myself in retro because it was a great time to be a kid.
I went off to college 3 weeks after MTV premiered. Everyone in my dorm wired their TV to play MTV through their 3-foot stereo speakers. And that was when MTV played nothing but music all day. It was probably the coolest thing to happen in our lives to that point. I can’t even describe the feeling. Music, videos, freedom, nirvana. Memories make us rich!
Going to a college in the 1980s with MTV available in your dorms is probably what made you rich because that sure didn't happen at any state or community college.
@@nikolewitt3752 It was great! I didn’t even get WGN growing up and then I get MTV, young ESPN, TNT, TBS, etc, on a little 12” tube TV. But to run my speakers through the TV was what made all the difference.
We didn't have TV in our dorm rooms and I didn't know anyone who brought their own, or if that was even allowed. But each dorm building had a common area with a TV and vending machines with snacks and drinks. From the day it launched the TVs were most always tuned to MTV because that was the one thing everyone agreed on 😁. And in the Student Union Café it was of course a must.
I don’t think there is a way to overstate the influence MTV had on my life. Midsummer 1981, I was nine, going on ten. Every song I ever liked after that came with a blast of visual and cultural impact. Their other programming shaped my entire sense of humor, which has served me better than any other skill I learned in college. It was the smartphone of gen x
Imagine having your place in history secured by being the very first music video on MTV and the song is video killed the radio star. Forever cemented in our heads and history.
What's so cool about MTV is that even after 40+ years I'll hear an early 80's song in my car and I can still remember the video in my head.....*memories*.
The 1980s really started with this broadcast. MTV opened up music and helped to give a generation an unbelievable time to be alive. Technology today is of course, so much better, but there will never be another era like the 1980s, that started it all.
And funny back then when technology would come amongst us, we were thrilled about it. Although I’m glad “technology” wasn’t as thought about back then. I loved the 80/90s. Living in the moments amongst others. It’s hard to explain to folks now and days how it was. It was truly great and I miss it, a ton.
I was part of the “MTV Generation” growing up. After school, the first thing I did was turn on MTV and I was entertained for the rest of the night. The big thing also was when a new video was premiered, especially Michael Jackson “Thriller” video and going to school the next day talking about it. It was a great time to be a kid. Generation X 💪🏼
I was 8 years old in 1982. We had just moved to Austin Texas and got cable for the first time. I remember the first music video I ever saw was Billy Joel's pressure. I also remember taping Headbangers Ball during my teen years.
THRILLER video was great! yeah it was crazy to see the story/movie videos come onto the scene. Remember Twisted Sister's "we're not gonna take it"? ...another big one. DIO! still remember all those videos. and then going to the concerts, fuck ya! stoned outta me skull and playing drums all day.
This was me too! I would go home after school (latchkey kid here 🙋🏽♀️) and immediately turn on MTV or Nickelodeon. I’d record my favorite music videos so I could practice singing and dancing.
Also, this was history in the making and I'm grateful that I got to see the launch of MTV on Aug. 1st, 1981!!!🙂🤘 It was phenomenal and sadly there has been nothing like it since, and never will be. 😔 The generation(s) coming up nowadays really missed out on the exciting 80's.
It's common knowledge that the first music video broadcast of MTV was Video Killed the Radio Star. Thanks to this, I now know the second one is You Better Run by Pat Benatar. Preservation of the pre-digital media of the 20th century is the single most important modern historical endeavor. You're doing humanity a great service.
I was 13 years old. First teenage year. My best friend and I were blown away. It really did define Gen X. I listen to 80s on 8 on Sirus with the original VJs. Nina rocks.
I remember watching this on that very first day!! My siblings and friends were all so excited for this. I am 50 years old and I have never forgotten this song or this day. I don’t think I ever will. It was truly the start of the best generation and decade to have ever existed. Thank you MTV!!
I remember that day. I was a month away from being a sophomore in high school, my cousins and I were gathered around my aunt and uncle’s living room tv. Music would never be the same after this and we all knew it. Now, here we are 42 years later and I don’t even think MTV shows music videos anymore.
Watched this as it happened and had no doubt how significant MTV would be though I was barely a teen. 80s. Utterly phenomenal. All of it. So much salacious fun. There was no decade that can compare and there never will be.
Boy's and girls, this was the ground breaking future of rock in the 80s! You had to be there, not only to understand, but, to FEEL it! It was truly a state of mind! We would rush home from school to watch MTV, and it was awesome! I wish MTV would go back to their roots, it seems they have forgotten where they come from! Awesome Video! Thanks 👍
I don't remember much from my childhood, but I'll never forget watching this when it happened. We had just got cable and it seemed like a brand new world had just opened up for all of us watching that day. Thank you for sharing.
I am 60 and MTV was a part of my young adulthood. They actually played music videos back then! I loved coming home from work and watching it while I got ready to go out. Well, now I just feel old...lol.
I'll be 64 next month! Still rocking to the 80s and 90s, music. Most of our generation is still very young at heart! Feel sorry for today's young who aren't experiencing the best times in thier lives buy sitting in front of the screen playing video games nearly 24 /7. Its like they have no idea how to have fun. Oh well...
People now won't know what going meant to us. Way different now. Everything is clean and coddled for them now. The one video that really sunk into my head was twisted sister were not gonna take it for some reason
Such a beautiful, perfect song to kick off their broadcast. I remember watching MTV with a friend when it was young and still 95% videos. He said he had trouble turning it off because he always wanted to see the next video. “It could be a great one.”
My cable bill in 1981 was $8 a month. MTV in it's first few years was something to behold! You got to see the musicians up close and personal, not some ethereal, disembodied clanging, clashing mix of notes and sounds blasting out of a radio speaker or sound system. Rock on Rockers!
@@ericlee2931 your right! My single mother raising us two children living on welfare and lousy child support from my father that ran out on us!! It was tough!! In other words no fricking cable for us!! We did get for free somehow in 1986-1987🤷♂️
I totally agree! The EARLY videos showed the band members playing their instruments. Then it evolved into just seeing the singer in a slow motion rainstorm or something. It was WAY better in the early days.
In the 70's we would still get together with friends occasionally just to listen to the radio, and mostly heard the same bands we'd heard weeks, months, years before. On 8/1/81 we started getting together just to watch MTV and we heard and saw new bands _constantly_ . And then radio stations had to start playing those bands too and the variety of music and artists exploded. It was a GREAT time and wish I could go back and experience that all over again.
Absolutely broke through so many new bands and music. That can never be highlighted enough. Where I grew up, the music landscape was very pedestrian, very generic, tried and true classic rock. MTV introduced R&B, Brit pop, rap, and so many others. And it gave a voice to those who never saw themselves represented before. It was nothing short of revolutionary. Even "The Real World" (which ushered in the original's demise eventually with reality TV programming) connected so well with viewers in its first years.
The Buggles may have been the official first music video... but Pat Benatar really KICKED IT OFF!! I totally remember when this all started... good times. Thank you for posting this.
I joined the US Military 6 months after MTV started. Came from a place with no cable. We had cable in our rooms! Also, MTV was being simulcast on radio. It was exciting. I was proud to defend MTV.
I had to quit listening to radio years ago because the corporate mindset only allows these radio stations to use the same genre formats repetitively and predictably, as though they don't want you to become distracted from your daily grind, i.e., your job. The radio seems to be used as more of a collective brainwashing scheme to keep people enslaved. Evidentially, people are just as interested in the advertising (so that they can buy all of the useless sh*t they don't really need) as they are into the mindless jingles with vapid lyrics (mostly pop, hip-hop and rap). All I know is that, when I was a kid growing up in the '70s and '80s, the local radio stations had not already been bought out by corporate entities; consequently, I had been exposed to various forms of rock music that was not restricted to genre boxes, so I had listened to everything from oldies to classic rock ('60s-'80s) to heavy metal to new wave to progressive rock, and yes, even some pop rock or power pop. New music was constantly being introduced to the virgin ears of youth --- some of it good, some of it bad --- unlike the repetition of today's corporate products. There actually was at one time a real music culture. I don't so much hear that now, because, every now and again I'll check some of these stations and, sure enough, they've been playing the same sh*t for at least the last 25 years.
God I loved my MTV - back when it WAS MTV. I couldn't get enough of the music videos. Innovative ideas, Michael Jackson's short for Thriller, Prince's loooong concert songs - it was all fantastic!
I remember this day well. I sat in front of a television, watching the fuzz until this station buzzed to life for the first time. And the rest is history.
@@takecareofyourshoessa lot of people don't. This is ancient history to gen z. They've never seen commercial free musician centered content like this was.
I remember this day very well! I was 14 turning 15 in a month, and we had our heads smeared into our televisions until we fell asleep. ..and woke up and kept watching. The 80's were a very good time!
Sadly though it would seem MTV has lost their way. Their music video revolution we fell in love with was taken from us and exchanged for a wide assortment of crap programming, all of which having NOTHING to do with the broadcasting of revolutionary music videos, the prime reason why MTV was created in the first place.
Absolutely, completely, perfectly put, Michael. It was incredible how one single cable television channel was able to change the entire TV Entertainment Industry and much of the world for Our 18 to 35 age demographic!
I have no problem with change which is the only constant in this world. I just wish they would retire the MTV name. Its current programming has nothing to do with music videos.
I was 16 when MTV started. It was just an earthquake for teens as we had hardly ever seen our favorite bands. Most we had were the album covers and jackets and maybe if they were near you in a concert…wow. I recall seeing Rush and being glued to the TV…I played the guitar and could not believe I could actually see Alex Lifeson playing what I had been trying to figure out.
I remember watching this live, damn I feel ancient. Too bad MTv sucks now. I remember watching Billy idol video Dancing with Myself and Rebel Yell. Duran Duran. What an an amazing times it was
I saw Billy Idol in Memphis, I think it was 83. It was one of the best nights of my life. One girl came wearing a wedding dress a lot like the one in November Rain.
A great trivia question. What was the 2nd played video on MTV? I knew the first, but I didn't know the second. Also, ZZ Top was huge then. Remember Night Flight?
@@UConnNation12 I don't know the answer to that question. I didn't know who ZZ Top was until their fantastic videos started. Hard to beat Legs for an awesome tune. I never missed a Night Flight either - terrific show!
For those that don't know, the chap in the shiny black suit at the back(4:08 here) is a young Hans Zimmer! Trevor and Geoff went on to very successful careers as well, but this song is the definition of a one hit wonder. Still, the perfect way to launch the channel.
I was 24, married, working at an early computer company, I missed the first few days of MTV but this younger guy at work he kept writing MTV all over boxes, paperwork, even on one of our parts carts so I decided to check it out because he was obsessed with it. I checked it out and decided it was really awesome. You'd see a video debut from a group you'd never heard of and the next day everyone was talking about it and the song was getting major airplay right away. MTV really influenced fashion back then too. I have a lot of good memories from back then. I feel lucky to have enjoyed music from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. MTV was great in the early 80s, wish it hadn't gone to hell like it did.
I was channel surfing at age 12 when I stumbled on to the exact video time. I had no idea I had just seen the beginnings of MTV. I was literally perplexed. I watched it for about 4 hours straight, and got really excited. I felt like the chimps in 2001 when they touched the monolith.
I was sitting on the floor waiting for MTV to come on for the very first minute. I was so incredibly excited. It was a part of my life for years after that. Always on in the background. Then I would run out to watch my favorite videos when they come on. I’ve hit my shin, the coffee table so many times. Lol.
I remember that day. My friend and I were on the phone waiting for it to start. We were both speechless watching that first video. Then we both wanted to get off the phone so we could watch this awesome new TV channel uninterrupted. We, just like everyone else were never the same. Opened our whole world up.
I was 10 years old when this awesome channel debuted. I was so incredibly blessed to have grown up in the 80s. Great music videos, timeless, cool bands, and wonderful memorable events.
The late 60's and 70's were certainly musically revolutionary, but in the 80's there was a fortunate balance between commercial interests and creativity that allowed for an explosion of music and ways to hear and see it. MTV was musically heroic for so many of us back then.
When this came out I was 17 my ordered 1980 Pontiac trans am took a while to build It was delivered on day MTV aired and these great songs played thankfully I still can hear these great songs in my T/A I still have the car my hair and thankfully look early 30s shame we don't have this kind of music.Yes there is few great ones but 10 years MTV was awesome thanks for sharing this video 😊😅
It's really cool that you have this, and uploaded for the rest of us to watch. '81 I was only in grade 1, so wasn't watching, but what great nostalgia for those who did...and learning that Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first vid played on MTV....mind blown!
I was 15 and my 2 sisters and I along with another friend, got to watch the first broadcast and was hooked big time! Awesome memories, thanks for this!❤ Its sad that MTV is what it is today, pitiful! There'll never be anything like it again, the way it was.
A song that is released as a single will have a video produced for it. Mtv didn't create that, they just made the videos popular. Record labels control which songs are released as singles.
@@TigerHighafuh they did pioneer it bruh… the first video they played was video killed the radio star… which is very fitting. And video did kill the radio tbh. But that was the first music video ever made.
@@Callieforniiaa Video Killed the Radio Star was made 2 years before MTV existed. There were loads of song videos before VKtRS too - in Europe at least.
I was born in 1982 and MTV was always on! I remember a lot of Duran Duran and The Cars videos as a young child. I remember them more than my family members. This takes me back to a time before my sister was born and it was just my brother and I. Thank you!
7 days before my 13th birthday the universe gave me MTV. It shaped my life from then til years later. Music was everything to an 80s kid. We were so damn lucky.
What a blast MTV was in the early days .I remember watching from 12:00 Midnight to 6 am one night drinking beer with a friend . We both liked only three of the same songs in those six hours , one being the Curly Shuffle of all things , but man was it a fun night .
I remember watching MTV at my boyfriends house and one girl friend who had cable. My family didn't have it. I moved from the rural midwest to NY on 1985 and everyday was MTV. It was spectacular.
This is amazing to watch. I knew that the Buggles was the first song to be played on the station but what about the stunningly gorgeous (and brilliant singer😊) Pat Benatar being the second song. I remember first hearing her in 1979 - Heartbreaker - and being blown away by her voice and then I saw pictures of her and fell hopelessly in love!
Ahhh remember the “remote” corded cable channel changing box with 13 push buttons and a 3 position selection switch on one side .HBO issued out a vanilla colored one with red blue an yellow colors . ON tv had a wood grain channel box .
I remember this like it was yesterday, a high school kid with his girlfriend (future wife) and rock music moved our world. M TV music videos gone, wife passed on but the music and I still survive.
Such a shame what they've done to MTV. Wonder why somebody doesn't come up with similar TV show today. I am sure it would be a hit. Miss the original 80's MTV...
Here's why: it wasn't profitable. Did we like it the way it was, sure. However, they weren't doing it for us, they were building a media company so they could become profitable.
In todays culture it wouldn’t survive. Studios are different now with all the streaming garbage. And like the other person said, it’s not profitable. It sucks to see, but at least we got to live that moment in those days!!
Because it would fail... like this did. They change because people stopped.. not the other way around. They had better ratings not Playing music. Music channels die
I miss that time when MTV was fresh too. But I realize that it was an event in history, a sweet moment in time that could not last and can never be repeated. We were different people then. Inexperienced and innocent. We only saw bands when we went to concerts. The only music we saw on TV was Lawrence Welk or maybe a band pantomiming a top 40 song on American Bandstand. It was new and exiting! But like that first kiss, getting your drivers licence, or turning 21, it was just an event.
Trevor Horn is the most underrated producer in the history of underrated producers. Trevor's resume includes YES, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Seal, Grace Jones, Art of Noise, LeeAnn Rimes, and, of course, The Buggles.
Remember when MTV played music? Weird right? A great song had to have a great video for it to be great. It was addictive eye candy you couldn't stop watching. This was also at a time when cable TV didn't play all night long either, hence the striped lines at midnight. It was fun sharing memories with you guys as it truly influenced a part of our lives. God Bless.
MTV along with Headline News five months later just changed everything. Watching music video technology and artistry expand and improve before your eyes was so much fun. The 80s were great times to be in your twenties for sure!
Just a former SHELL of what was once the greatest channel ever! I miss MTV in those golden days. World Premiere, Top 10 videos, Headbangers ball and Closet Classics. Great MTV segments.
20 days later, I turned 1! I was born with a hearing infection that rendered me partially deaf for the first three years of my life. But on year 4, I remember first seeing MTV and hearing music for the first time. The video I saw was Van Halen's Jump!!
Well, far out - thank you to whoever managed to preserve this! I was there to watch these first 10 minutes, I would have only been a few years old... I always remembered that intro and the first video, but never could remember the second video. I haven't heard some of these names in decades! I can't rightly say MTV changed my life or anything, but I always remembered seeing it go live, and MTV did provide much of the "soundtrack to my childhood" (new wave and heavy metal, along with the British Invasion, psychedelia, hard rock, and other music my parents were listening to on their '70s era stereo system!)
"Alongside his work in Yes, Horn produced for an array of music icons including ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, Tom Jones, Barry Manilow, Paul McCartney, Pet Shop Boys, Rod Stewart, and Tina Turner."-Allmusic
I remember being 13 years old and watching this at the Racquet Club in Juneau, Alaska after ballet class. I was completely mesmerized and had butterflies in my stomach waiting to see what would happen after the countdown and takeoff. My parents didn’t allow tv in our house because it was considered to be “Unadulterated Trash!” 🤦🏽♀️. A year later at 14, I talked my parents into letting me move to California (on my own!) to study dance and go to a performing arts high school. I totally rocked the Jennifer Beals vibe with the ripped, off the shoulder shirt and leg warmers. After that Every dance class was like being in a music video and high school made me feel like I was living a real life version of the show Fame! We even got fan letters from kids that we performed for. I look back at our video performances from back then only to realize that we were so dorky! Nothing like teenage dancers today!
The early years on MTV were magical, sadly it's now just a joke
Didn't it go bankrupt recently?
It's not a joke! It's zealous, leftist propaganda/indoctrination, a tool, an existentially, lethal weapon to sane, LEGAL American citizens and this great Constitutional Republic.
Fortunately, MTV Live still exists.
@@Tyrone181What’s that?
Not really. It’s always been low budget. But Beavis and Budget was great.
I was teenager then and the impact was phenomenal. MTV is not even a shadow of what it once was.
I agree with that once they went to the new format I haven't watched in years as complete crap now
I haven't seen MTV since 2010 and even then it was a garbage channel. I can't even imagine what it's like now.
aye cause music has been crap for over 20 years
In the 80s I watched MTV 90% of the time…it was radio on tv and the VJs were amazing.
yes but you've got it backwards. MTV is the shadow of what youtube is today. But it also funny that YT AI decided to dig up this gem seven years later.
40 years of MTV, 10 years of good music. Thanks for the memories.
Was absolute garbage after real world. We can pinpoint the date.
You're absolutely correct, after 10 years, it all went downhill.
Hahaha yes, this is accurate. I think we can probably squeak in a few more years though. 120 Minutes was still cranking out great music till the early 90s ;)
Man how much I miss the old days.
Mammories
I was in college when MTV started. It’s really hard to describe today how groundbreaking it was. We were mesmerized by it. When we had parties, MTV was the background not the radio. A shame what became of it
Exactly! And if a new video premiere was happening, MTV was no longer the background, it was THE PARTY!
Nothing good ever lasts because people sell out
My mom said they only ever saw the back of my head the day MTV went live. 😅
Reality TV killed the video star.
It killed all tv!!!!
Correct.
"The Real World" came along in the 90's, then everything changed😭.
Tik Tok killed it all.
@@manfredmann2766 😬Actually...
MTV died crazy eons before THIS TikTok was even noticed. It's merely another nail in the coffin beforehand.
Among a # of reasons MTV was established: A go-between of musicians & their fans. The internet evolves to the point where social media becomes more advanced that artists can communicate more directly with their fan base. CZcams has since carried music videos ON DEMAND, which MTV cannot in the same way: it's more like Top 40 Radio with pictures...which is good.
😔Overall: It was the advancing internet, especially CZcams that killed The MTV Star.
A fascistic worldview applied to copyright law killed the video star.
Just a reminder to those who did not get to witness this . MTV played NO commercials at all !!!!! Beautiful Man !
@@PeterAngles-ks9fpKickbacks from record companies to get their videos played. But somehow this wasn’t deemed illegal like the Payola scandal 2 decades earlier where they paid DJ’s to play records.
They also didn't have movies.
Lol "MTV played NO commercials at all !!!!"
YES they did. Immediately following this 10 minute part was a commercial for "The Bulk" a three-ring binder and a following commercial during this same broadcast was an ad for Superman II.
I have no idea why you think MTV didn't have commercials but it absolutely did.
I was.thinking MTV was a cable channel
Therefore wouldn't necessarily need to run ads.
@@nikolewitt3752 People are confusing cable with HBO, Showtime and other subscription add-ons for cable. MTV always had commercials and was available on basic cable for most areas. HBO, Showtime and Cinemax were commercial free, cost extra and usually required a second cable box. The rest of cable had commercials.
I love absolutely everything about this video. I would do anything to go back and do 1975-1999 over again! Truly a magical era.
"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the best song to be played 1st ever on MTV. The guy who imagined MTV -kudos to him.
Trevor Horn.
@@Marv_0815and Geoff Downes
Mike Nesmith of The Monkess invented MTV except it wasn't called MTV. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PopClips
That song is awful
@@AnAdorableWombat1 True, but a fitting song to start with nonetheless
My brother sat me down and said this was a historical moment and that I needed to watch this new program. What an incredible time to be alive.
BS
Us Gen X saw a lot of great things, I was born in 72 and still have my 1977 Atari 2600. I now surround myself in retro because it was a great time to be a kid.
Your brother was very insightful!
Save this tape and put it in a time capsule. PLEASE!!!
@@stevestandfell8845 yes it was. wild as fuck and yet somehow safe.
I went off to college 3 weeks after MTV premiered. Everyone in my dorm wired their TV to play MTV through their 3-foot stereo speakers. And that was when MTV played nothing but music all day. It was probably the coolest thing to happen in our lives to that point. I can’t even describe the feeling. Music, videos, freedom, nirvana. Memories make us rich!
Going to a college in the 1980s with MTV available in your dorms is probably what made you rich because that sure didn't happen at any state or community college.
@Jon R Martin no kidding. I had no TV in the dorm and when I lived off campus we only got like 2 channels on our tiny no-cable TV. 😂
@@jonrmartin Illinois State University, so you stand corrected.
@@nikolewitt3752 It was great! I didn’t even get WGN growing up and then I get MTV, young ESPN, TNT, TBS, etc, on a little 12” tube TV. But to run my speakers through the TV was what made all the difference.
We didn't have TV in our dorm rooms and I didn't know anyone who brought their own, or if that was even allowed. But each dorm building had a common area with a TV and vending machines with snacks and drinks. From the day it launched the TVs were most always tuned to MTV because that was the one thing everyone agreed on 😁. And in the Student Union Café it was of course a must.
I don’t think there is a way to overstate the influence MTV had on my life. Midsummer 1981, I was nine, going on ten. Every song I ever liked after that came with a blast of visual and cultural impact. Their other programming shaped my entire sense of humor, which has served me better than any other skill I learned in college. It was the smartphone of gen x
@@ChrisOhMy math is hard, huh?
I was born in 1972. The boomer generation was born in the 1940s and 50s.
@@TentinQuarantino_and the early 60’s. I’m a “boomer” and I was born in 62.
Imagine having your place in history secured by being the very first music video on MTV and the song is video killed the radio star. Forever cemented in our heads and history.
What's so cool about MTV is that even after 40+ years I'll hear an early 80's song in my car and I can still remember the video in my head.....*memories*.
Same here! 😂
I do that all the time. I'm 61 now
@@Godsfavorite1919 Same age, same memories bro.
I can't why I came into a room, but I can remember the video from every 80's song.
No doubt
The 1980s really started with this broadcast. MTV opened up music and helped to give a generation an unbelievable time to be alive. Technology today is of course, so much better, but there will never be another era like the 1980s, that started it all.
Well said 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
And funny back then when technology would come amongst us, we were thrilled about it. Although I’m glad “technology” wasn’t as thought about back then. I loved the 80/90s. Living in the moments amongst others. It’s hard to explain to folks now and days how it was. It was truly great and I miss it, a ton.
🙋♂️ Yes! 📺🎤🎹📻🎸🎼🎷🎻🎧 Class of '83 here.
Mr Hill, the 80s started with an obscure failure of a #cultmusical on roller skates, #Xanadu...
Yes. Unbelievable. Like rocket launches
I just fell in love with Pat Benetar all over again.
Her husband, the lead guitarist are still together after all these decades.
Yeah, and always braless
And in the Hall of Fame!
And a way underrated guitarist at that.
She rocks! The voice, the body, we all crushed on her in high school
@@knerduno5942Yep. Flat Benatar.
Everyone that wasn't around at that time what a time you missed. MTV was all videos all the time and what a glorious moment in culture that was.
I was part of the “MTV Generation” growing up. After school, the first thing I did was turn on MTV and I was entertained for the rest of the night. The big thing also was when a new video was premiered, especially Michael Jackson “Thriller” video and going to school the next day talking about it. It was a great time to be a kid. Generation X 💪🏼
I was 8 years old in 1982. We had just moved to Austin Texas and got cable for the first time. I remember the first music video I ever saw was Billy Joel's pressure. I also remember taping Headbangers Ball during my teen years.
@@christophermontoya5526 Headbangers Ball was must watch TV for the metal heads back then!!! 🤘🏼
THRILLER video was great! yeah it was crazy to see the story/movie videos come onto the scene. Remember Twisted Sister's "we're not gonna take it"? ...another big one. DIO! still remember all those videos. and then going to the concerts, fuck ya! stoned outta me skull and playing drums all day.
This was me too! I would go home after school (latchkey kid here 🙋🏽♀️) and immediately turn on MTV or Nickelodeon. I’d record my favorite music videos so I could practice singing and dancing.
Same here! I begged my mom for cable just so I could watch MTV. I want my MTV!
Also, this was history in the making and I'm grateful that I got to see the launch of MTV on Aug. 1st, 1981!!!🙂🤘 It was phenomenal and sadly there has been nothing like it since, and never will be. 😔 The generation(s) coming up nowadays really missed out on the exciting 80's.
So true!
Every single generation things this about their own. Lmao. Every. Single. One.
Remember all the solid promises MTV made when launching MTV2? JUST music videos. Lol
@@WaitingForTheHook - Better than your shit generation!
The 80's! The best times of my life!
It's common knowledge that the first music video broadcast of MTV was Video Killed the Radio Star. Thanks to this, I now know the second one is You Better Run by Pat Benatar.
Preservation of the pre-digital media of the 20th century is the single most important modern historical endeavor. You're doing humanity a great service.
I was 13 years old. First teenage year. My best friend and I were blown away. It really did define Gen X. I listen to 80s on 8 on Sirus with the original VJs. Nina rocks.
Late Boomer influenced by MTV. Generations have been known to intertwine somewhat.
Born late in 66
80's on 8!!!! Yeah buddy!!!!
They knew what they were doing playing that song first
It was a sign of things to come.
Indeed they did, and the next song they played was even better!! Pat Benetar
Yeah, television is much easier, because everything is filled out for you.
Of course! They don't call it "programming" for nothing!
🪬 let’s the brain 🧠 washinG commence ( warp speed )
I remember watching this on that very first day!! My siblings and friends were all so excited for this. I am 50 years old and I have never forgotten this song or this day. I don’t think I ever will. It was truly the start of the best generation and decade to have ever existed. Thank you MTV!!
You would have been like 5 yrs old.
@@scrapplepig A lady never reveals her true age. I’m older than 50 so no I would have been older than 5.
I remember that day. I was a month away from being a sophomore in high school, my cousins and I were gathered around my aunt and uncle’s living room tv. Music would never be the same after this and we all knew it. Now, here we are 42 years later and I don’t even think MTV shows music videos anymore.
A real shame what that channel has become.
It’s a disgrace
Man, you ain't kidding.
The channel is a joke... a den of dreck!
MTV is still around? I haven't heard it mentioned in a long time
No music just gays
One of the greatest moments in music history!👌😎👉📺I want my mtv back!
unfortunately it's now EMPTY V ! 👎 I remember this day like it was yesterday
Me too
@@michaellorenzen8200 lol 😂👍I agree!
How many kids today know what the first space craft was. Today kids don't really know what the space shuttle was.
@@nola281 Kids today don't even know what sex they are or which Bathroom to use
Watched this as it happened and had no doubt how significant MTV would be though I was barely a teen. 80s. Utterly phenomenal. All of it. So much salacious fun. There was no decade that can compare and there never will be.
Boy's and girls, this was the ground breaking future of rock in the 80s! You had to be there, not only to understand, but, to FEEL it! It was truly a state of mind! We would rush home from school to watch MTV, and it was awesome! I wish MTV would go back to their roots, it seems they have forgotten where they come from! Awesome Video! Thanks 👍
I was 15 and I remember that day vividly! 57 now. Can’t believe how fast the time has gone by!
Same here.
Time is Short, enjoy your life and those around you. I was 17 when this happened.
It's crazy isn't it? 42 years ago....😯
I was nine when I watched the premiere. IT WAS RAD!
Same. 15. Turned 16 in October.
It had gone by so quickly.
Such a magical time and moment in history. The 80s wouldn’t have been the same without MTV as we knew it then.
That feeling of staying up all night waiting for your favorite song ❤
I don't remember much from my childhood, but I'll never forget watching this when it happened. We had just got cable and it seemed like a brand new world had just opened up for all of us watching that day. Thank you for sharing.
I am 60 and MTV was a part of my young adulthood. They actually played music videos back then! I loved coming home from work and watching it while I got ready to go out. Well, now I just feel old...lol.
I'll be 64 next month! Still rocking to the 80s and 90s, music. Most of our generation is still very young at heart! Feel sorry for today's young who aren't experiencing the best times in thier lives buy sitting in front of the screen playing video games nearly 24 /7. Its like they have no idea how to have fun. Oh well...
People now won't know what going meant to us. Way different now. Everything is clean and coddled for them now. The one video that really sunk into my head was twisted sister were not gonna take it for some reason
Such a beautiful, perfect song to kick off their broadcast.
I remember watching MTV with a friend when it was young and still 95% videos. He said he had trouble turning it off because he always wanted to see the next video. “It could be a great one.”
Same. It was just tough to peel away. And so many of us were frankly alone.
That was a truly magical time to be a kid. MTV was a beautiful drug in its early days.
When I was in high school my best friend and I watched this every day after school. It was the best!
My cable bill in 1981 was $8 a month. MTV in it's first few years was something to behold! You got to see the musicians up close and personal, not some ethereal, disembodied clanging, clashing mix of notes and sounds blasting out of a radio speaker or sound system. Rock on Rockers!
That 8 bucks was a lot of cash for a monthly bill back then Some could not afford it
🤯😱😩🤘🎶🎵🎶
@@ericlee2931 your right! My single mother raising us two children living on welfare and lousy child support from my father that ran out on us!! It was tough!!
In other words no fricking cable for us!! We did get for free somehow in 1986-1987🤷♂️
@@billycloudy9078 _You're_ right. Not "your" right.
I totally agree! The EARLY videos showed the band members playing their instruments. Then it evolved into just seeing the singer in a slow motion rainstorm or something. It was WAY better in the early days.
In the 70's we would still get together with friends occasionally just to listen to the radio, and mostly heard the same bands we'd heard weeks, months, years before. On 8/1/81 we started getting together just to watch MTV and we heard and saw new bands _constantly_ . And then radio stations had to start playing those bands too and the variety of music and artists exploded. It was a GREAT time and wish I could go back and experience that all over again.
Absolutely broke through so many new bands and music. That can never be highlighted enough.
Where I grew up, the music landscape was very pedestrian, very generic, tried and true classic rock. MTV introduced R&B, Brit pop, rap, and so many others. And it gave a voice to those who never saw themselves represented before. It was nothing short of revolutionary.
Even "The Real World" (which ushered in the original's demise eventually with reality TV programming) connected so well with viewers in its first years.
Totally agree!! Well said
Yes.
It was great!
And the music of today is just plain awful. Such a travesty. Wish that MTV would have never changed the way they did in the 90's.
The Buggles may have been the official first music video... but Pat Benatar really KICKED IT OFF!! I totally remember when this all started... good times. Thank you for posting this.
I joined the US Military 6 months after MTV started.
Came from a place with no cable. We had cable in our rooms!
Also, MTV was being simulcast on radio. It was exciting. I was proud to defend MTV.
What a full circle this has been. Although video killed the radio star, MTV is pretty much dead and radio is still very much alive and well.
Radio is still alive? Yes radio stations still exist, but I wouldn't exactly call it "alive and well." It's merely hanging on by a thread for now.
I had to quit listening to radio years ago because the corporate mindset only allows these radio stations to use the same genre formats repetitively and predictably, as though they don't want you to become distracted from your daily grind, i.e., your job. The radio seems to be used as more of a collective brainwashing scheme to keep people enslaved. Evidentially, people are just as interested in the advertising (so that they can buy all of the useless sh*t they don't really need) as they are into the mindless jingles with vapid lyrics (mostly pop, hip-hop and rap).
All I know is that, when I was a kid growing up in the '70s and '80s, the local radio stations had not already been bought out by corporate entities; consequently, I had been exposed to various forms of rock music that was not restricted to genre boxes, so I had listened to everything from oldies to classic rock ('60s-'80s) to heavy metal to new wave to progressive rock, and yes, even some pop rock or power pop. New music was constantly being introduced to the virgin ears of youth --- some of it good, some of it bad --- unlike the repetition of today's corporate products. There actually was at one time a real music culture. I don't so much hear that now, because, every now and again I'll check some of these stations and, sure enough, they've been playing the same sh*t for at least the last 25 years.
streaming owns the radio star but is killing everything including itself
It was perfect for that time. We all know that radio will be forever.
True
God I loved my MTV - back when it WAS MTV. I couldn't get enough of the music videos. Innovative ideas, Michael Jackson's short for Thriller, Prince's loooong concert songs - it was all fantastic!
I remember this day well. I sat in front of a television, watching the fuzz until this station buzzed to life for the first time. And the rest is history.
They killed it. I want my Mtv back. I want my melody back. I want My New Wave and Rock n Roll.
I don’t think people realize how revolutionary this is…
Was……
Ummmm....actually *EVERYBODY* realizes it now. Literally....EVERYBODY. Pretty clearly as well. Not sure how you came to that misguided conclusion.
@@takecareofyourshoess Would a one-year-old child know?
@@syesepoh ::roll eyes::
@@takecareofyourshoessa lot of people don't. This is ancient history to gen z. They've never seen commercial free musician centered content like this was.
I remember this day very well! I was 14 turning 15 in a month, and we had our heads smeared into our televisions until we fell asleep. ..and woke up and kept watching. The 80's were a very good time!
A great time!
Sadly though it would seem MTV has lost their way. Their music video revolution we fell in love with was taken from us and exchanged for a wide assortment of crap programming, all of which having NOTHING to do with the broadcasting of revolutionary music videos, the prime reason why MTV was created in the first place.
Absolutely, completely, perfectly put, Michael. It was incredible how one single cable television channel was able to change the entire TV Entertainment Industry and much of the world for Our 18 to 35 age demographic!
It's all business. They're hanging on by a thread as it is on the outdated cable television model, while Internet streaming is here to stay.
Right on Michael!
I have no problem with change which is the only constant in this world. I just wish they would retire the MTV name. Its current programming has nothing to do with music videos.
@@jospenner9503 - It's a shit business decision when you continue to advertise yourself as something you are not!
Don't remember the first day since i was only 5, but I'm so glad I had the real MTV for my childhood teen years and 20s. It was perfect timing!
I was 16 when MTV started. It was just an earthquake for teens as we had hardly ever seen our favorite bands. Most we had were the album covers and jackets and maybe if they were near you in a concert…wow. I recall seeing Rush and being glued to the TV…I played the guitar and could not believe I could actually see Alex Lifeson playing what I had been trying to figure out.
‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ is a pop music masterpiece.
What a good song to start off MTV’s first broadcast!
Saw the bass player on tour with Seal. What an awesome show
Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn, both went on to become members of YES.
I remember watching this live, damn I feel ancient. Too bad MTv sucks now. I remember watching Billy idol video Dancing with Myself and Rebel Yell. Duran Duran. What an an amazing times it was
White Wedding for sure. Duran Duran ruled MTV videos for awhile - they were amazing!
I saw Billy Idol in Memphis, I think it was 83. It was one of the best nights of my life. One girl came wearing a wedding dress a lot like the one in November Rain.
Michael, Prince, Duran Duran, Pat Benetar
A great trivia question. What was the 2nd played video on MTV? I knew the first, but I didn't know the second. Also, ZZ Top was huge then. Remember Night Flight?
@@UConnNation12 I don't know the answer to that question. I didn't know who ZZ Top was until their fantastic videos started. Hard to beat Legs for an awesome tune. I never missed a Night Flight either - terrific show!
This is a very historical video. The 80s were the best music era ever. Never to be matched again.
Close, the 70's had the biggest and best variety of music. 80's was close.
Neil Giraldo was the first guitarist on MTV. Great guy.
For those that don't know, the chap in the shiny black suit at the back(4:08 here) is a young Hans Zimmer! Trevor and Geoff went on to very successful careers as well, but this song is the definition of a one hit wonder. Still, the perfect way to launch the channel.
What a cool piece of trivia! Thanks.
If you want to see more pop Zimmer you can search " Mecano - Maquillaje (Live'84) ". He was a guest player in that concert. Guest dancer too :)
@@deanladue5367 Geoff Downs also joined YES in 1980. He is the current keyboardist for YES.
I remember watching this live. Was there ever a better-timed, thematic song released? I think not. This song still lives on my playlist today.
I was 24, married, working at an early computer company, I missed the first few days of MTV but this younger guy at work he kept writing MTV all over boxes, paperwork, even on one of our parts carts so I decided to check it out because he was obsessed with it. I checked it out and decided it was really awesome. You'd see a video debut from a group you'd never heard of and the next day everyone was talking about it and the song was getting major airplay right away. MTV really influenced fashion back then too. I have a lot of good memories from back then. I feel lucky to have enjoyed music from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. MTV was great in the early 80s, wish it hadn't gone to hell like it did.
Thank you MTV for two of the best years of music videos the world has ever known.
Pat Benatar, Queen of MTV 👸
I was channel surfing at age 12 when I stumbled on to the exact video time. I had no idea I had just seen the beginnings of MTV. I was literally perplexed. I watched it for about 4 hours straight, and got really excited. I felt like the chimps in 2001 when they touched the monolith.
I was sitting on the floor waiting for MTV to come on for the very first minute. I was so incredibly excited. It was a part of my life for years after that. Always on in the background. Then I would run out to watch my favorite videos when they come on. I’ve hit my shin, the coffee table so many times. Lol.
I remember that day. My friend and I were on the phone waiting for it to start. We were both speechless watching that first video. Then we both wanted to get off the phone so we could watch this awesome new TV channel uninterrupted. We, just like everyone else were never the same. Opened our whole world up.
I have the very same memory 😅 good times that only we understand & nobody can take that away from us. Memories.... ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Now I don't take calls so I can watch CZcams shorts uninterrupted.
Truly addicted.
This song puts me in a Good Mood it's a flashback to when things where better than they are now
It wasn't better same shyte different decade. I wasvin the middle of it.
Oh yes it WAS better. Today is a total shit show. Gimme the 80s any day
I absolutely loved staying up late Sunday nights for 120 minutes. So so so many great memories from my childhood in these early days.
I LOVE IT that Pat Benatar's You better Run was the 2nd video ever played on MTV!
Ahhh,the good old days when you left Mtv on all day and night,it was on everywhere I went back in the 80's. 🚀
I'd come home from work and immediately flip on the TV to MTV !
I was 10 years old when this awesome channel debuted. I was so incredibly blessed to have grown up in the 80s. Great music videos, timeless, cool bands, and wonderful memorable events.
I was 8 in upstate NY, hi soul sista and fam!
@@eri7-11 HI🥰
I just turned 10 years old a month before this debuted.
I turned 10 a few days after it launched. Such a blast, lol.
i was 9
Back when the channel was still fresh and sitting glued to your television was worth wasting your time to. God, how i miss those days.
When music was on 📺 as well your stereo 🤯🥳😵💫 what a concept!!!!
So glad I was part of the MTV generation ❤
The late 60's and 70's were certainly musically revolutionary, but in the 80's there was a fortunate balance between commercial interests and creativity that allowed for an explosion of music and ways to hear and see it. MTV was musically heroic for so many of us back then.
I was 18 and just beginning to spread my wings and experience the world, MTV was the soundtrack to my life!
When this came out I was 17 my ordered 1980 Pontiac trans am took a while to build
It was delivered on day MTV aired and these great songs played thankfully I still can hear these great songs in my T/A I still have the car my hair and thankfully look early 30s shame we don't have this kind of music.Yes there is few great ones but 10 years
MTV was awesome thanks for sharing this video 😊😅
It's really cool that you have this, and uploaded for the rest of us to watch. '81 I was only in grade 1, so wasn't watching, but what great nostalgia for those who did...and learning that Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first vid played on MTV....mind blown!
I was 15 and my 2 sisters and I along with another friend, got to watch the first broadcast and was hooked big time!
Awesome memories, thanks for this!❤
Its sad that MTV is what it is today, pitiful!
There'll never be anything like it again, the way it was.
A song doesn't become a hit unless it has a video! MTV pioneered this
A song that is released as a single will have a video produced for it. Mtv didn't create that, they just made the videos popular. Record labels control which songs are released as singles.
@@TigerHighafuh they did pioneer it bruh… the first video they played was video killed the radio star… which is very fitting. And video did kill the radio tbh. But that was the first music video ever made.
@Callieforniiaa no just the first played on mtv not the first ever made.
@@Callieforniiaa btw I'm listening to the radio as we speak and haven't watched mtv in 20 years.
@@Callieforniiaa Video Killed the Radio Star was made 2 years before MTV existed. There were loads of song videos before VKtRS too - in Europe at least.
Boy does this bring back memories. I'm even old enough to remember when Rolling Stone was a reputable music magazine.
"Everything Woke, Goes To SH#T"!!!!!
I was born in 1982 and MTV was always on! I remember a lot of Duran Duran and The Cars videos as a young child. I remember them more than my family members. This takes me back to a time before my sister was born and it was just my brother and I. Thank you!
The cars has a ton of great songs. I was 14 in 1982.
7 days before my 13th birthday the universe gave me MTV. It shaped my life from then til years later. Music was everything to an 80s kid. We were so damn lucky.
What a blast MTV was in the early days .I remember watching from 12:00 Midnight to 6 am one night drinking beer with a friend . We both liked only three of the same songs in those six hours , one being the Curly Shuffle of all things , but man was it a fun night .
Hey Moe!!....I remember that song LMFAO
@@davidkahler1311 Oh man, I'd forgotten that song! Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck!
I bet you also smoked the chronic
Hey Eric, it's Justin, fancy seeing you in the comments! I used to sing the Curly Shuffle at karoke.✊
@@Skycladatdusk78 I need to see that
I remember watching MTV at my boyfriends house and one girl friend who had cable. My family didn't have it. I moved from the rural midwest to NY on 1985 and everyday was MTV. It was spectacular.
I was born in 1982 and as soon as I turned a teen I was OBSESSED with this channel..
This is amazing to watch. I knew that the Buggles was the first song to be played on the station but what about the stunningly gorgeous (and brilliant singer😊) Pat Benatar being the second song. I remember first hearing her in 1979 - Heartbreaker - and being blown away by her voice and then I saw pictures of her and fell hopelessly in love!
Her and her husband, the lead guitar player are STILL married.
Unheard of in show/music business.
@@Winterstick549 yes, guitarist/songwriter Neil Gerardo
@@jamesha175 Neil Giraldo but I know who you meant! lol
Ahhh remember the “remote” corded cable channel changing box with 13 push buttons and a 3 position selection switch on one side .HBO issued out a vanilla colored one with red blue an yellow colors . ON tv had a wood grain channel box .
What a time to be alive. I mourn and long for those years again.
I remember this like it was yesterday, a high school kid with his girlfriend (future wife) and rock music moved our world. M TV music videos gone, wife passed on but the music and I still survive.
Such a shame what they've done to MTV. Wonder why somebody doesn't come up with similar TV show today. I am sure it would be a hit. Miss the original 80's MTV...
Here's why: it wasn't profitable. Did we like it the way it was, sure. However, they weren't doing it for us, they were building a media company so they could become profitable.
In todays culture it wouldn’t survive. Studios are different now with all the streaming garbage. And like the other person said, it’s not profitable. It sucks to see, but at least we got to live that moment in those days!!
People have every music video ever made available on their phones for free. Why would anyone pay for a music video channel?
Because it would fail... like this did. They change because people stopped.. not the other way around. They had better ratings not Playing music. Music channels die
I miss that time when MTV was fresh too. But I realize that it was an event in history, a sweet moment in time that could not last and can never be repeated. We were different people then. Inexperienced and innocent. We only saw bands when we went to concerts. The only music we saw on TV was Lawrence Welk or maybe a band pantomiming a top 40 song on American Bandstand. It was new and exiting! But like that first kiss, getting your drivers licence, or turning 21, it was just an event.
I can't believe how much better it's gotten. Like a fine wine.
Trevor Horn is the most underrated producer in the history of underrated producers. Trevor's resume includes YES, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Seal, Grace Jones, Art of Noise, LeeAnn Rimes, and, of course, The Buggles.
Remember when MTV played music? Weird right? A great song had to have a great video for it to be great. It was addictive eye candy you couldn't stop watching. This was also at a time when cable TV didn't play all night long either, hence the striped lines at midnight. It was fun sharing memories with you guys as it truly influenced a part of our lives. God Bless.
They'd only be playing pop music or rap anyhow so we're not missing out on anything. We can enjoy the memories.
Oh…the beauty…the innocence….the strangeness! Even at 31 back in 1981 - I watched this and knew it was something special.
Itt was so magical seeing Live Aid as it was happening! I loved seeing The Cars and Queen playing live to the entire planet. Those were great times!
8/1/81. By 8/7/81 every home I went into had this channel playing 24/7
MTV along with Headline News five months later just changed everything. Watching music video technology and artistry expand and improve before your eyes was so much fun. The 80s were great times to be in your twenties for sure!
Just a former SHELL of what was once the greatest channel ever! I miss MTV in those golden days. World Premiere, Top 10 videos, Headbangers ball and Closet Classics. Great MTV segments.
I remember the countdown and couldn’t wait for the start. MTV was so fun in the beginning.
MTV 40 years old, thanks for 20 years of great music.
LOL! Well played!
20 days later, I turned 1! I was born with a hearing infection that rendered me partially deaf for the first three years of my life. But on year 4, I remember first seeing MTV and hearing music for the first time. The video I saw was Van Halen's Jump!!
1981 is as far into the past today as 1939 was in 1981.
That's a scary thought. Thanks! 😉☮️
If I could go back to 1939 I kill Hitler
Thanks for the stark reality check… asshole 😂
Well, far out - thank you to whoever managed to preserve this! I was there to watch these first 10 minutes, I would have only been a few years old... I always remembered that intro and the first video, but never could remember the second video. I haven't heard some of these names in decades! I can't rightly say MTV changed my life or anything, but I always remembered seeing it go live, and MTV did provide much of the "soundtrack to my childhood" (new wave and heavy metal, along with the British Invasion, psychedelia, hard rock, and other music my parents were listening to on their '70s era stereo system!)
I remember this like it was yesterday! When it was nothing but videos and artist interviews!
Trevor Horn was, and still is one of the best producers in music history!
Hands-down and all day!!
Also, I think that's Hans Zimmer at 3:05. Major film score genius.
@@Bacopa68 It is. He wasn't part of the band though.
@@Bacopa68 yes he is, I agree
"Alongside his work in Yes, Horn produced for an array of music icons including ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, Tom Jones, Barry Manilow, Paul McCartney, Pet Shop Boys, Rod Stewart, and Tina Turner."-Allmusic
I remember being 13 years old and watching this at the Racquet Club in Juneau, Alaska after ballet class. I was completely mesmerized and had butterflies in my stomach waiting to see what would happen after the countdown and takeoff. My parents didn’t allow tv in our house because it was considered to be “Unadulterated Trash!” 🤦🏽♀️. A year later at 14, I talked my parents into letting me move to California (on my own!) to study dance and go to a performing arts high school. I totally rocked the Jennifer Beals vibe with the ripped, off the shoulder shirt and leg warmers. After that Every dance class was like being in a music video and high school made me feel like I was living a real life version of the show Fame! We even got fan letters from kids that we performed for.
I look back at our video performances from back then only to realize that we were so dorky! Nothing like teenage dancers today!
No u didn't lol. It was only available in New Jersey 😂😂😂. Why lie about it?