The 1980s didn’t just change music — they changed how we experienced it. Before MTV launched in 1981, music videos were afterthoughts, low-budget promotional clips that occasionally appeared on ...

When it comes to music videos, there is a before and after. There was a time when music videos weren’t prized like they were in the 1980s and 1990s. Prior, they were rarely seen promo materials. But ...

Is there a decade in human history that has more of an aesthetic than the 1980s? If you close your eyes, in a flash, you can picture the Mohawks, the leg warmers, the synthesizer music coming through ...

Musicians aren’t the only entertainers who like to flex their performing muscles; actors occasionally can’t resist the lure of regular MTV rotation. That was the trend for a while during the 1980s, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Singers Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon of the duo Captain and Tennille pose for a portrait in 1980 in Los Angeles. - The '80s were ...

MTV launched in 1981 and within two years the economics of the music industry had rearranged themselves around a medium nobody had planned for. Some artists understood immediately. They didn’t make ...

Jeremy has more than 2700 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

When MTV launched in August 1981, the cable channel demanded a steady stream of visual content. British artists, already accustomed to producing short ...