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The first ten minutes of MTV.
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From Wikipedia:
On August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m., MTV: Music Television launched with the words “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” spoken by John Lack. Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching guitar riff written by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over a montage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. With the flag having a picture of MTVs logo on it. MTV producers Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert used this public domain footage as a conceit, associating MTV with the most famous moment in world television history.[5] Seibert said they had originally planned to use Neil Armstrong’s “One small step” quote, but lawyers said Armstrong owns his name and likeness, and Armstrong had refused, so the quote was replaced with a beeping sound.[6]
At the moment of its launch, only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it.
I’ve had the song stuck in my head since I watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off… (the video killed the radio store song). I...
Istenem, hogy ez mennyire csodás már, szinte történelmi pillanat. A Buggles szám után a “kazettacserlő” effektus...
felelőtlenül nem jutottam el addig...videóval, amikor kiírtam. Elnézést!
Azt meg kit érdekel, amikor after that: a gyönyörű Pat Benatar!
MTV played music videos? GET OUT!!
IN NEW JERSEY. Now it all makes sense. The seeds were planted all the way back in, eh…..
Reminds me of the internet.
What… happened?
The first ten minutes...I work with cool people.
I rarely reblog here, but this clip seemed like...good bet. (Though
The first ten minutes of MTV.
That the Buggles had the first video played on MTV has passed into folklore—you know it just like you know that Neil...
If you really want to go deep with this stuff, you can see a full 1.5 hours...1983 MTV...