immense shock and grief to the poet. first rock n roll assassination. hard on the boulevard i never get scarred i learned different rhythms it was like in one moment the listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. 60s and the 70s got murdered. in his life he s given more so i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. love than most men and women on the face of this earth. not just the regular doom, doom, doom. i was in between, doo-doom, we re here to prove that love is doo-doom, doo-doom. see all there is to see before not dead, even though john is. you know, 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. i m trying to set an example for the little kids, know what i m saying. for a while it seemed there got to teach the babies, know was nothing new on the horizon. what i m saying, try to lead announcing the latest them in the right path. achievement in ho
really needed. they didn t know they needed him, but boy, when we started to see those michael jackson videos, it was just unbelievable. then there was the domino effect. suddenly you see prince videos from warner brothers do the same thing. tonight we re going to party like it s 1999 prince wasn t just materializing out of nowhere. where was he before this video was done? prince was a huge star on black radio stations. i mean, people he had a real underground cult following him. he was a very sexy, hot performer. the sweat of your body covers me can you, my darling, can you picture this prince loved the idea that he was taking his punk-funk music and turning it on to a white audience, and that wouldn t have happened if not for mtv. this is what it sounds like when doves cry when i was younger, i always said that one day i was going to
the new year. what do you hope will happen not only in 1984 but for the rest of your professional life? what are your dreams? what s left? to rule the world. star light, star bright first star i see tonight star light star bright make everything all right all of a sudden there was girls around that had the gloves with the fingers cut out of it and the hair wrapped up in the net and wearing the short skirts. there was like hundreds of thousands of jewish girls around the country wearing crucifixes because of madonna. what do you like about her? i like the way she thinks about she acts like with a different attitude that no one else has. she dresses how she wants, acts how she wants, sings how she wants. she does what she wants. i think her appeal is that she is feminine, she is herself, she is sexual. but she s strong! she s an individual woman. madonna understood the mtv phenomenon. she understood the vibe and the look and the sound. it all came together with
music has no color. and it 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.
recognized that it s a marriage between the visual artist and the musician at this point. monkey don t you know you re going to shock the monkey the man or the woman who finds the right combination will take it all. let s dance put on your red shoes and dance the blues when david and i decided that we were going to work together, it was pretty clear to me that david wanted to make a commercial album. you know, now i m going to go make a pop record, but it was going to be his version of pop. my songs always tend to be impressionistic or even have a surreal quality to them. and on this album is the first time that i ve really tried to adapt to a didactic kind of approach to song writing. if you should fall into my arms and tremble like a flower artists in the 80s, david bowie for that matter, realized if you want to make it, you ve got to be on mtv.