One of Mötley Crüe’s biggest hits was initially rejected by their record label, but the song subsequently became one of MTV’s most-watched videos, so much so that the network eventually pulled it from ...

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 weren’t just about synth-pop and MTV newcomers — it was also a decade where rock icons from the 60s and 70s staged remarkable comebacks. From Tina Turner’s Private Dancer to Aerosmith’s ...

Before the age of the music video, most big musicians had to settle for foregoing music video footage entirely or investing in whole films. (See: The many musical films The Beatles produced for their ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Who could forget him on MTV?