London (AFP) – MTV kick-started a new era of music and pop culture in 1981, when it went on air for the first time, emblematically playing “Video Killed the Radio Star” as its debut music video.
More than four decades later, the channel, now owned by US media giant Paramount Skydance, will wind down its international music broadcasting by the end of the year as it struggles to compete with online streaming and social media.
So long.
Solemn selections for today:
A very oldie but a goodie:
At Wembley the other week, I and 90,000 others indulged that most lethal of emotions. An emotion so supposedly deadly that entire books have been devoted to examining and dismantling it. Some call it humanity’s ‘dull ache’. Others call it ‘toxic’. Some outright call it ‘dangerous’. And yet there we were, tens of thousands of us, a sea of bucket hats and beers, our throats sore from roaring, our arms flung round perfect strangers, all in the gleeful grip of that most taboo of feelings: nostalgia.
Today we celebrate the TRUE meaning of Canada Day – the birthdays of Debbie Harry and Fred Schneider:
Oh, alright!:
