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On 'Headbanger's Ball,' MTV Bought Metal to the Masses

Who remembers the name of the first host? (It wasn't Riki Rachtman.)

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"Video Killed the Radio Star": A Pre-'80s Prophesy

The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star"

Looking back before and after the video that launched MTV.

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The Buggles

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1981

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The Funk of 40,000 Years: When Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Video Premiered

The iconic short film took MJ's album to a whole new level.

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Michael Jackson

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1983

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Looking Back at Van Halen's First, Raucous Reunion

Van Halen at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards

It ended almost as soon as it started.

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Neil Young's Sour "Note" Almost Got An MTV Ban

Shakey was playing with fire, and the network wasn't happy.

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As Fast As They Can: In Praise of ZZ Top's 'Eliminator' Videos

As MTV started beaming into more households through the early '80s, viewers were seeing and hearing music that they might not have caught elsewhere, and some acts were able to reach a completely new audience. In 1983, few bands benefited from the exposure quite like ZZ Top, that "little ol' band from Texas" who broke big on the pop charts with their album Eliminator.

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ZZ Top

1983

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