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[quote][b][i]MTV first aired on August, 1st 1981.
On that day, Perhaps a bit ironically, this was the first music video ever shown on MTV…..[/i][/b][/quote]

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M Best Comment

[center]The Buggles performing Video Killed The Radio Star. (C) 1979 Island Records Ltd.[/center]

[media=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs]

Must note, this song nor MTV were available where I was between 1978 and 1983.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@XenonRush Thank you for the BC.

ElwoodBlues · M

[u]Interviewer:[/u] How did we get there?

[u]David Crosby:[/u] Several ways, the first of which -- and I'm probably shooting myself in the foot by saying this publicly, but to heck with it, it's the truth -- the first of which is VH1 and MTV, who unwittingly and without any mal intent -- you know, they didn't mean to do anything bad -- have turned it from being a musical experience to being a theatrical experience. Again, what you look like, not what you can do.

That's not a good thing, because it means that anybody that looks good in a well-shot video is suddenly at the top, whereas hugely talented people, who are great musicians, can barely get arrested. I mean, they can barely get any notice at all. And that's not a good thing. That's had a terribly bad effect on the music business, and on music.

[b]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/music/interviews/crosby.html[/b]