Music videos may seem old hat now, but let me tell you, in the summer of 1981, MTV was indubitably the coolest thing ever invented. And the people who were in the videos... coolest people ever. No question.
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I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.
At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.
The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.
I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?
I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.
I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.
I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.