Authors: Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn, Gavin Edwards
Print Length: 328 pages
In this 'highly entertaining snapshot of a wild-frontier moment in pop culture' (Rolling Stone), discover the wild and explosive true story of the early years of MTV directly from the original VJs.
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I know people usually like ebook prices to be a little lower than this to stimulate some likes, but I've had this on my amazon books wishlist for years, and this is the lowest it's been. It's also not available at my local libraries as an ebook or through Hoopla.
I read this years ago in paperback, and it's fascinating for anyone that was a kid when MTV and music videos first became a thing. I wanted the ebook version for a reread because there were so many great stories I wanted to highlight to easily find in my Kindle highlights to refer to (and regale my husband with!).
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If you watched MTV or just like 80s bands, some of the stories were deliciously outrageous. It's also a reminder how different things were in the way of TV options in the 80s. IIRC, the idea of MTV was sold as a way to get people to sign up for cable tv, because you could only watch if you had cable, and most people didn't have it. The idea was that if you can get kids begging parents for cable (so they can watch MTV), more people sign up. I think this book goes into that; I've also read a book called "I Want my MTV," so I can't remember which stories came up in which book, lol. Of course, the behind-the-scenes at MTV and rock-star encounters are the most fascinating and larger part of the book, but I found all of it a fun blast from the past.
On the Internet archive there are TONS of old recordings of 80s and 90s MTV. I get absolutely lost watching this stuff
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Thanks for the heads up. I'm looking forward to reading this!
If you watched MTV or just like 80s bands, some of the stories were deliciously outrageous. It's also a reminder how different things were in the way of TV options in the 80s. IIRC, the idea of MTV was sold as a way to get people to sign up for cable tv, because you could only watch if you had cable, and most people didn't have it. The idea was that if you can get kids begging parents for cable (so they can watch MTV), more people sign up. I think this book goes into that; I've also read a book called "I Want my MTV," so I can't remember which stories came up in which book, lol. Of course, the behind-the-scenes at MTV and rock-star encounters are the most fascinating and larger part of the book, but I found all of it a fun blast from the past.
On the Internet archive there are TONS of old recordings of 80s and 90s MTV. I get absolutely lost watching this stuff
omg, I have to look this up. I dvr the classic mtv videos and once in a blue moon actually watch them, but it has none of the VJs or interviews they did.
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She became a VJ and later a TV actress. She was in the last few seasons of the sci-fi show Sliders.
emphasis on TV
so rather see videos
than read
lots to see on youtube
thanks anyway
Reading be good for a lotta folks.