you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. unskinny bop just blows me away mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. ending the 80s in terms of rock music, you re getting a lot of hair bands. you ve got poison, ratt, warrant. she s my cherry pie cool drink of water such a sweet surprise tastes so good make a grown man cry sweet cherry pie a lot of hairspray going on. there s a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it s not particularly deep music, but mtv pushing it. so that s selling. when i would turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way. they played a kind of music. they were expected to have a certain facade. mtv s ratings are surprisingly small. but those who do watch, mostly teenagers and yo
diapers. she leaked from every pore. we were howling with delight, laughing like lunatics in the mad house that was new york city. thrilled to be rubbing up against the freaks and other outcasts who somehow, for some unknowable reason had all decided to run to land s end and all at once scream their bloody heads off. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la [ sirens ] man: nothing but a bunch of crackheads, dopefiends, and [ bleep ]. anthony: this is a show about a very special place, a very special time, and some very special people. so much happened, so much began on new york s lower east side. in the new york city of the 70s, nearly bankrupt, riddled with corruption, the lower east side, particularly alphabet city, was left to fe
find here at tower records. it s now out of business. three, two, one! [ cheers and applause ] this is a very special moment, the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! that s great it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes lenny bruce is not afraid i ll always remember new year s eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know it by r.e.m. it s the end of the world as we know it it s the end of the world as we know it i feel fine it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be a very apocalyptic decade. happy new year! so we wake up, it s 2000, we re all alive, and we re still in the middle of teen pop mania. don t want to hear you ain t nothing but a heartache boy bands were selling so many albums. every little thing you do never seems enough for you this is the biggest year in pop mu
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. 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 one
now we re getting down to real commerce. aren t these girls just crazy? yeah, they are. you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. unskinny bop just blows me away mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. ending the 80s in terms of rock music, you re getting a lot of hair bands. you ve got poison, ratt, warrant. she s my cherry pie cool drink of water such a sweet surprise tastes so good make a grown man cry sweet cherry pie a lot of hairspray going on. there s a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it s not particularly deep music, but mtv pushing it. so that s selling. when i would turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way. they played a kind of music. they were expected to have a certain f