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First music video ever aired on MTV 2 "You Better Run" Pat Benatar: 1/2 First female artist and first lead guitarist (Neil Giraldo) 3 "She Won't Dance With Me" Rod Stewart: 1/2 Bassist Phil Chen was the first non-white musician to appear on MTV [4] 4 "You Better You Bet" The Who: 1/5 5 "Little Suzi's on the Up" Ph.D. 1/3
The accompanying music video was written, directed, and edited by Russell Mulcahy. It was the first music video shown on MTV in the US, airing at 12:01 a.m. on 1 August 1981, and the first video shown on MTV Classic in the UK on 1 March 2010. The song has received several critical accolades, such as being ranked number 40 on VH1's "100 Greatest ...
In 2000, the Guinness World Records named "Smells Like Teen Spirit" the "Most Played Video" on MTV Europe. Rolling Stone placed the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at number two on their 1993 list of "The 100 Top Music Videos". [46] MTV ranked the song's music video at number three on its "100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made" list in ...
The very first music video ever played on MTV was The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," but that statement isn't entirely accurate: Before MTV even existed, music videos have helped launch ...
At the very first MTV Video Music Awards, I opened the show and when I was leaving the stage, I tripped onstage. I remember there was an audible gasp from everyone at Radio City Music Hall, and I ...
The groundbreaking video was the first to be aired on MTV Europe when the network launched on 1 August 1987. [ 3 ] It was Dire Straits' most commercially successful single, peaking at number 1 for three weeks on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Top Rock Tracks chart and number 4 in the band's native UK.
When MTV premiered in 1981, music videos were a novelty; a network that played them 24/7 appealed even to cynical Gen Xers. ... "MTV doesn't play music anymore" is a complaint nearly as old as the ...
Katy Perry will receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. ... Australian filmmaker Russell Mulcahy won in the same year for directing the first video ever played on MTV ...