If my trivia skills are as good as I’d like to think they are (and if my memory is half as good as I’d like it to be), The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the first video ever played on MTV. I remember watching that goofy guy in the big glasses and the archaic camera effects over and over again with sheer glee. I was too young to realize it, but a very different era was dawning, and this exciting new outlet was about to define an entire generation.
Fast forward a couple of generations, and MTV is still going strong—though recently I had some difficulty finding an actual music video (I did, however, catch plenty of Laguna Beach episodes).
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