have a good night. we ll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. there are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. we like to call them tastefully smutty. they never had any problems saying how they feel. u2! what are your dreams? to rule the world. michael jackson is the man of the 80s. music that is all beat and talk. it s rap music. i ll speak my mind heavy metal. it glorifies sex and violence. it hates authority. and adolescent boys love it. this weird beastly presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. john lennon was shot by an unknown at this time white male. the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock and roll assassination. it was like in one moment, the 60s and the 70s got murdered. in his life he s given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we re here to prove that love is not dead, even though john is. you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you d
john lennon was shot by an unknown at this time white male. the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock and roll assassination. it was like in one moment, the 60s and the 70s got murdered. in his life he s given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we re here to prove that love is not dead, even though john is. you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you don t really know where you re going to go from that point. you know, culturally or musically. for a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. announcing the latest achievement in home entertainment. the power of sight. video. the power of sound. stereo. mtv. music television. we all are so excited about this new concept in tv. we ll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. at the time the world was saying, we don t think anybody s going to watch videos over and over. but we knew we had something special. my little pretty one, pretty o
so how would he translate his music and his attitude toward the world to what seemed like this frivolous world of the music video? bruce is not going to be next to a winking model on a sailboat. you can t start a fire you can t start a fire without a spark this gun s for hire he ends up doing essentially a concert video starring a then unknown courteney cox. it s like this weird recreation of something that organically happens in a bruce springsteen concert. born in the usa if there was an artist in the 80s who transcended the music video, he s the guy. he s the one guy that didn t actually need to do great music videos to still be a great artist. he s bruce springsteen. it was great music. born in the usa both large and small, communities and the people who live and work there grow and thrive. we re proud to call these places home too.
shouldn t have color. and i don t believe in that. what i do, i don t want it labeled black or white, i want it labeled as music. 1983, motown has this big tv special, motown s 25th anniversary. at that time thriller is out and thriller is doing well. but michael jackson couldn t get billie jean on mtv. she was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene when the rest of the world was going crazy, and he can t get on mtv? michael jackson? come on. when he does that moonwalk, if you were sitting on the couch, by the end of it you were on the floor in front of the tv. you couldn t believe what you were seeing. i would say that the moonwalk was really one of the first viral moments that affected rock history. the next week, thriller started selling a million copies a week. i like michael jackson because he s good, he s bad, he
he sings, he writes, he plays. every time i see him it s just like, really? okay, i quit. when he plays guitar, it s just part of his body in a way that i ve never really seen before. and it s not contrived. it s just it s just happening. what was his music? was it r&b? his music was just straight down the middle mainstream, grab you by the throat and balls, pop. we go down to the river and into the river we die at this point a lot of it is about being there, which is why we haven t done too much of the video thing. a lot of it allows too much distance. like what our band is about is about breaking down distance. at night i wake up bruce was all about credibility and intelligence and integrity.