MTV didn't refuse to play Black artists, and Michael Jackson wasn't the first on the network, but Black artists had reasons ...

Long before most others in the industry, the Thin White Duke called for more black artists on MTV. In the wake of David Bowie’s death, the network resurfaced a now-infamous 1983 interview in ...

But that phrase didn't come from the academy. Those are the words uttered by former MTV host Mark Goodman, during a 1983 interview with the late David Bowie. Bowie had interrupted an otherwise ...

He released the album Let’s Dance in 1983 and reappeared looking like a true ’80s star. Bowie went mainstream, and the audience loved him. His videos were in full rotation on MTV ...

Even Prince’s “1999” single, shut out of pop radio upon its initial release in 1982, was re-launched in mid-1983 and off the back of its belated MTV exposure became a huge pop radio success ...

Long missing from availability, the documentary aired just once on MTV back in 1983. As per Sacks & Co., Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party has a new 4K remaster coming from Crowe’s 16mm source.

A fixture of the network for a significant part of its history, MTV News began as a chance to break up the shambolic state of the then-newborn channel. “In 1983,” former MTV News writer Tim ...

The documentary, which disappeared after a little-heralded MTV premiere 41 years ago ... he co-directed about Petty & the Heartbreakers in 1983, titled “Heartbreakers Beach Party,” has ...

In 1983, we’re reaching the heart of what we think ... a goofball play on ’60s love song tropes that soon became an MTV favorite. —Robert Ham 13. Minutemen: What Makes a Man Start Fires?

A nearly forgotten documentary he co-directed about Petty & the Heartbreakers in 1983, titled “Heartbreakers ... for viewing since its lone showing on MTV in February ‘83, the rock doc is ...