August 5, 2008
POP CULTURE: Music Television
Michele Catalano looks back at the first day's playlist on MTV.
It's funny to look at that playlist and see the number of classic rock artists that were represented. When you think of MTV and the role it played in promoting what we now call "80's music," there wasn't that much of it on that first day. Of course, the older artists were the ones who actually had videos available at the time.