Music videos came of age in the 1980s – where promotional clips had usually been perfunctory mimed performances, the advent ...

MTV didn’t technically create the idea of a music video, but it certainly popularized its use. The dedicated network encouraged artists to try their hand at visuals, broadening the concept from taped ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

Pour one out, legends the last real remnants of MTV’s 24-hour music channels have officially been switched off the world. This week, MTV’s UK-based music stations – MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club ...

What were the best rock music videos for each year of the 1980s? It was a decade that set the standard for what the music video can be and we saw the growth explode over the course of the 1980s.

Where it began: Emerging in the 1960s, pop rock fused rock’s raw energy with catchy pop melodies, with landmark albums like Sgt. Pepper pushing creative boundaries. Decade shifts: The 70s and 80s saw ...

As the '80s dawned, late boomers had new wave joining their formative years, with acts like Devo and Blondie creating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Martha Quinn was taken aback when she heard what the final video on MTV’s music channels was—because it was the same video that ...

’80s rock stood in stark contrast to ’70s rock. The majority of the prior decade saw bands relying on rough-around-the-edges production, wiry guitars, and raw vocals. The ’80s got rockers to think ...