Book : I Want My Mtv The Uncensored Story Of The Music Video

-Titulo Original : I Want My Mtv The Uncensored Story Of The Music Video Revolution

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Remember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life.Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR - Spin - USA Today - CNBC - Pitchfork - The Onion - The Atlantic - The Huffington Post - VEVO - The Boston Globe - The San Francisco Chronicle Remember the first time you saw Michael Jackson dance with zombies in Thriller? Diamond Dave karate kick with Van Halen in Jump? Tawny Kitaen turning cartwheels on a Jaguar to Whitesnakes Here I Go Again? The Beastie Boys spray beer in (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)? Axl Rose step off the bus in Welcome to the Jungle? It was a pretty radical idea-a channel for teenagers, showing nothing but music videos. It was such a radical idea that almost no one thought it would actually succeed, much less become a force in the worlds of music, television, film, fashion, sports, and even politics. But it did work. MTV became more than anyone had ever imagined. I Want My MTV tells the story of the first decade of MTV, the golden era when MTVs programming was all videos, all the time, and kids watched religiously to see their favorite bands, learn about new music, and have something to talk about at parties. From its start in 1981 with a small cache of videos by mostly unknown British new wave acts to the launch of the reality-television craze with The Real World in 1992, MTV grew into a tastemaker, a career maker, and a mammoth business. Featuring interviews with nearly four hundred artists, directors, VJs, and television and music executives, I Want My MTV is a testament to the channel that changed popular culture forever. Review Highly entertaining - Rolling Stone It reminded me of those long days watching MTV, back when it still played videos...riveting. - New York Times Hilarious, with behind-the-scenes dirt on hundreds of videos. I guarantee youll have a tough time putting it down. - USA Today Riveting reading, and a book we expect to see on the best-seller lists. -Very Short List The sheer entertainment value within these pages is priceless. -Publishers Weekly A smart, decadently entertaining oral history. - Playboy Just as MTV hypnotized viewers, so the jump-cut structure of I WANT MY MTV swiftly compels. - Businessweek Rollicking. The golden age of MTV was just as wild and debauched as you would hope. - New York Post A rip-roaring, hilarious tribute to the cable channel that changed pop culture. A wonderfully entertaining and enlightening history, a magnificently enjoyable read. - The National Riotous and irreverent. Crack it open to almost any page and youre guaranteed a giggle. Every gaffe, scandal, and sexual innuendo comes in for hilarious scrutiny. - New York Daily News Insiders are already buzzing about the book, which does for music television what Fredric Dannens Hit Men did for indie promotion. -HITS A smart oral history. - Billboard A wild trip down memory lane, this cool history makes us 80s and 90s kids totally nostalgic. - NYLON Hugely readable and insanely fun. - Pitchfork It makes you laugh, it makes you cry. I couldnt put it down. This is the best book Ive read on how the music business really works. -Bob Lefsetz, The Lefsetz Letter An obscenely entertaining (and entertainingly obscene) account of MTVs early days. -Dave Holmes The entire Grantland staff is obsessed with the book -Grantland The writers certainly did their homework, chronicling the wild and crazy ride of the network in the words of its own eclectic cast of characters...there is plenty to sink your teeth into with this book. -Hollywood Reporter Its part voyeurism, part nostalgia, part social commentary - the perfect pulp non-fiction read for the cooling months ahead. -Modern Tonic I WANT MY MTV chronicles MTV as I, and many others, would like to remember it: a lot of fun when it first came on the scene and a joy to wat