Ask five witnesses what they just saw and you may get three different stories. When you ask more than 30 people what happened in the music video industry between 1981 and 1992, and you get a complete history of MTV.
I Want My MTV takes you behind the scenes of a television station that revolutionized how we listened to music. Artists became superstars overnight, generations were introduced to music genres they may never have been exposed to, and bags of sugar were poured out on living room floors across the nation. (Okay, I know I am not the only one that got in trouble for making their own Def Leppard video).
Somehow, MTV worked, but its future was not always so certain. Craig Marks takes us through more than a decade of the golden age of MTV, an age that reflected the life and times of a generation, but also defined it. An easy and fascinating read, anyone interested in how MTV went from an idea to a cultural icon will enjoy this book.
Four out of five stars.
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