MTV: Rewinding 20 years of music revolutionOriginally posted by: loki8481
quit fooling yourselves... MTV never played good music videos. at least not in any kind of respectful ratio to the bad music videos that they pimped out.
- New acts and artists including Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Boy George, Cyndi Lauper, U2 and Madonna took advantage of their memorable looks and onscreen presence to lure viewers into their songs and launch music careers that still are going today. And established icons -- Dire Straits and the Rolling Stones, among them -- used it to revive their careers.