Music Television (MTV) 1981 "Video Killed The Radio Star"

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted December 19, 2007

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For you folks fortunate to remember the debut of this music video, it was extremely creative in content and imagination like nearly all music videos of the late 1970s through the 1980s (which I've always loved and have a collection of, BTW). The excerpt shown was from "The Buggles" (album title: The Age Of Plastic). The forementioned picture title was among the very first videos "aired" (by satellite upon cable TV systems who carried the MTV network at the time) on August 1, 1981. At 12:01 AM EST on that date "the switch was thrown" and MTV has continued ever since.

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