John lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. The world has reacted with shock and grief to the first rock n roll assassination. It was like in one moment, the 60s and the 70s got murdered. In his life has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. Were here to prove that love is not dead even know though john is. You know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. You dont really know where youre going to go from that point 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 are so excited about this new concept in tv. Well be doing for tv what fm did for radio. At the time, the world was saying, we dont think anybodys going to watch videos over and over. But we knew we had something special. Pretty one when you going to give me some time mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room. You had a personal concert all day. When you had the rotation of say maybe 100 different videos being rotated over and over on mtv, they do a great job of exposing new acts will you lift me please if i open my door written was ahead of the curve. They had a ton of videos in their inventory. That was what paved the way for this accidental second british invasion. If you look at some of the groups in the music charts today you cant help but ask where on earth did they come from. They come from britain. The music isnt anything like the famous group that came from there, the beatles. Youve got understand they were 20 years ago. Were a new generation and new wave. You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when i met you by the early 1980s, new wave is used to describe these sleek dressy cool bands that are coming out of england. Dont you want me baby dont you want me oh british artists all understood how to use visuals in a way that i think american artists didnt necessarily get that quickly. Do you really want to hurt me do you really want to make me cry its a good song. Its a song that old and young people like. I think the proof is in the pudding. Buy it and eat it. Mtv actually met with duran durans blrgs and said were looking for kind of like james bond videos on location. And their managers are the ones that went to the band members and said look, we really need to up the ante with these clips. We need to give this channel something theyve never seen before. Bird of paradise there are some that have accused you of videos being soft porn. Well, excuse me. We like to them tastefully smutty. Just like that river drifting through the dusty when i first met duran duran, they were saying that they thought they looked like rock stars. So why not become rock stars . Dont stand, dont stand so, dont stand so close to me why do you think you were so popular over there. I think theres a tradition that goes back over the past 20 years from the days of the beatles and the Rolling Stones where british bands seem to be better at it than americans. The police have sold 4 million albums in one year, Rolling Stone chose them as the best new band of the year taking note of the swirling dreamy soaring quality of the sound. It was incredible to see them and i couldnt believe what i was hearing out of three people. I was shocked. I once read that you were called the pink floyd of the 80s. What do you think of that . Were not at all. Were just the cure confident 80s. The holy trinity of alternative British Music is the cure. Depeche mode and the smiths. All three of them started out as these fringe bands that by the end of the 80s were selling out stadiums. Ill give to you again and again and will you return it whats new order, computer programmers or musicians . Id say neither actually. What are you then . Bank robbers. How does it feel to treat me like you do in the uk, disco did not suck. It never sucked and bands like new order combined it with the new synthesizer sound and they gave us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. I still find it so hard to say what i need to say a lot was happening at dance places. I think the music is becoming very healthy. I accept im not the hiker i was. I even accept i have a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. But no matter what path i take, i go for my best. So if theres Something Better than warfarin, ill go for that too. Eliquis. Eliquis reduced the risk of stroke better than warfarin, plus had less major bleeding than warfarin. Eliquis had both. 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Lets 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 like you know, now im 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 ive really tried to adapt to a didactic kind of approach to song writing. You should fall into my arms tremble like artists of the 80s and david bowfor that matter realized if you want to make it, youve got to be on mtv. But theres one group not happy with mtv. Many black artists have been told their music doesnt fit the format. Thats whats happening. Were being sat in the back of the bus. Theyre going to try it. Doesnt exclude black acts. It excludes the music thats not rock n roll. Mtv came out with no consideration how to infuse black music into their mix. Im just floored by the fact that theres so few black artists on it. Why is that . We have to try and do what we think not only in new york and los angeles will appreciate but also some town in the midwest that will be scared to death by prince or a string of other black faces. Interesting. Okay, thank you very much. When are we going to see anybody of color on mtv because you said music television. When are you going to start covering all genres of music . Music has no color and it shouldnt have color. And i dont believe in that. What i do i dont want it labeled black or white. I want it labeled as music. And 1983 motown has this big tv special motowns 25th anniversary. At that time, thriller is out and thriller is doing well but Michael Jackson couldnt get billie jean on mtv. She was more like a beauty queen when the rest of the world was going crazy and he cant get on mtv, Michael Jackson . Come on. When he does that moon walk, if he was sitting on the couch by the end of it, you were on the floor in front of the tv. You couldnt believe what you were seeing. I would say that the moon walk was really one of the first viral moments that affected rock history. The next week thriller starred selling a million copies a week. I like Michael Jackson because hes good, hes bad, he knows how to dance. Ooze so sexy and hes so gorgeous. Exciting. Michael jackson is the man of the 80s. Mtv starts taking pressure from cbs records which was Michael Jacksons label. Rock n roll in itself really was the thing that broke a lot of rules. Youre very successful, you try to make your own rules occasionally. As the story goes cbs essentially said we will pull every other artist we have on mtv if you dont play this. They had to be essentially blackmailed into doing it. Just beat it he was the artist that mtv really needed. They didnt know they needed him but boy, when we started to see those Michael Jackson videos, it was just unbelievable. Then theres the domino effect. Suddenly you see prince videos from Warner Brothers do the same thing. Tonight were going to party like its 1999 prince wasnt just a materializing out of nowhere. Where was he before this video was done. Prince was a huge star on black radio stations. I mean, he had a real underground cult following and he was very sexy hot performer. The sbaet of your body covers me 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 wouldnt have happened if not for mtv. This is what it sounds like when doves cry whether he i was younger i always said that one day i was going to play all kinds of music and not be judged for the color of my skin but the quality of my work. Purple rain. Prince had a great androgyny. He blurred the gender line. He sings. He writes, he plays. Every time i see him, its just like oh. Really . Okay. I quit. When he plays guitar, its just part of his body in a way that ive never really seen before. And its not contrived. Its just its just happening. What was his music . Was it r b . You know, his music was just straight down the middle mainstream grab you by the throat and balls pop. We go down to the and into the river we die at this point, a lot of it is is about beaning there which is why we havent done too much of the video thing. A lot of it is it allows too much distance like what our band is about is about breaking down distance. Bruce was all about credibility and intelligence and integrate. 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 cant start the fire, you cant start the fire without a spark, this guns for hire he ends up doing essentially an inconcert video starring a then unknown courteney cox. This weird recreation of something that organically happens in a Bruce Springsteen done sert. Hes the one guy who didnt actually need to do great music videos to still be a great audience. Hes Bruce Springsteen. It was great music. Its not a quick fix. Its my decision to make beauty last. Roc® retinol, started visibly reducing its not a quick fix. K. The better it works. Retinol correxion® from roc. Methods, not miracles. ™ snap achoo snap achoo achoo snap snap achoo achoo feel a cold coming on . Zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45 . Shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam. My lineage was the vecchios and zuccolis. Through ancestry, through dna i found out that i was only 16 italian. He was 34 eastern european. 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You would think that in the era of music becoming a visual form more than ever that it would all be about objectification. But there were a lot of strong women on that video screen. Meet the darlings of l. A. s new music scene, the gogos. See the people walking down the street unlike earlier girl groups such as the ronettes or the supremes, the gogoes write their own songs and play their own instruments. They got the beat they got the beat, they got the beat yeah, they got the beat that was as punk rock as it got for me, to see girls up there, you know, not just singing backup or not just like standing in some cool outfit in front of a band. Like they were the band. While the gogos have always managed to look like theyre having fun, they are to be taken seriously. Theyre the First Female Group ever to have a number one album, and they are at the top of a list of female rock stars whose impact within the industry is stronger than ever. The phone rings in the middle of the night my father yells what you gonna do with your life i thought her voice was extraordinary, and cyndi was a very good visual content creator. I mean, those videos were so colorful and fun. This being march the 31st, its also a monday. Some off you might consider it a manic monday. Youll be interested in knowing there is a hit song of the same name. Were joined by the architects of that song. They are the bangles. You guys are very hot, yes . 6 oclock already, i was just in the middle of a dream when the bangles came out, everyone was like, oh, its like another gogos. The bangles were like uhuh, were not the new gogoes, were the new beatles. A lot of people call that a 60s sound. Do you think so . Thats our main influence. We dont go in and consciously say lets make this a Buffalo Springfield song. That seems to be the way the songs end up sounding. Just another manic monday wish it were sunday theres always a certain amount of people who will never take women as a group seriously. Its run by a very chauvinistic, i imagine, Recording Industry. We concentrate on the music, you know. We dont really worry about those things. We just keep writing songs. I think that there was a little bit of an attitude like theyre okay for chicks. They can play okay for girls. They can play okay for girls. We didnt understand why our gender mattered or why it defined us. People magazine this week says it will take an act of congress to keep this woman from becoming a megastar. Whitney houston how will i know if he really loves me i say a prayer with every heartbeat whether she was doing a dance song or she was doing a ballad the greatest love of all it kind of stopped you in your tracks because you just couldnt believe that one woman could be blessed with that much, with the looks and the talent. This lady started out as a dancer, went to new york, went to paris, worked with bands, came back as a single. And is she hot. This is madonna. If you saw madonna then, she looked just like the girls who hung out at the club called the funhouse. All the girls there had the mesh thing and they had the boots. And it was kind of a mix of new wave punk with this other dance sensibility. Holiday celebrate i think madonna was able to use that core dance music and use the style of the streets that were going on and evolve that into a pop career. We are a couple weeks into 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 . Whats 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 shes strong shes an individual woman. Madonna understood the mtv phenomenon. She understood the vibe and the look and the sound. It all came together with her. Everyone underestimates you. You keep giving them little surprises. If they get you all in one glance, then whats going to make them look again . Ooh, like a virgin feels so good inside when madonna sang like a virgin and started rolling around on the ground, people thought it was a careerending moment for her. Oh, oh oh, oh in this wedding dress, rolling around on the floor. It kind of stopped everybody in their tracks. 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