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<<An aside on "Video Killed the Radio Star", if I might. Good Beginnings of a thing are often remembered for far longer than the things themselves, and more often than not may not be a norm for that thing's process-in-general. The Buggles' song was played on the radio in NYC long before MTTV was in even 10% of homes.>> If memory serves, the first Buggles album came out in 79. After that, Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn (who basically WERE The Buggles, after the third guy you see in the video left) joined Yes, recorded the highly underrated album Drama with them, and toured the US and Europe before the whole thing fell apart. People in the US think The Buggles were a new group in 81, but I think they may have already bitten the dust, with Horn moving onto production and Downes co-founding Asia. << And, for several years after its founding, MTTV was desperate enough for material to play that they ran Juice Newton videos.>> We first got cable in the summer of 82, and I don't remember EVER seeing Juice Newton on MTV. They may have showed her real early on (they also aired a Charlie Daniels concert early on as well), but from mid 82 onwards, I was an ardent viewer, and I never saw Juice Newton on there. I remember seeing her on HBO, on their Video Jukebox show (along with Al DiMeola, Pat Metheny, and Jean-Luc Ponty, none of whom I ever saw on MTV, either..though I did see them later on VH-1's New Visions show). The funny thing about MTV in the early days is they got a lot of criticism for not playin black artists. People like Prince, Shalamar, and other R&B performers had videos, but MTV wouldn't play them. Years later, they claimed it was because they were going for the "white suburban male demographic", which explains the heavy reliance on new wave stuff, with a little bit of hard rock and metal mixed in. But if they were playing Juice Newton and Charlie Daniels (I can vouch on the latter, I remember seeing that live version of The Devil Went Down To Georgia a number of times), that kinda shoots that theory to hell. Of course, it's kinda ironic that MTV went from playing no black artists in 81-82 to being almost entirely black by the end of the 90's. That is, when they even bothered to play videos. I still think MTV was amazingly great for about the first 4 or 5 years. It was somewhere around 86 or 87 when it started to go down the toilet, I think. ===== May you never thirst! The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris "What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James Earl Jones __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com