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Index
Cover
Dedication
Introduction / by Gavin Edwards
Chapter 1: Got My Back against the Record Machine / Close Encounters with David Lee Roth
Chapter 2: Changes Come around Real Soon, Make Us Women and Men / Life before MTV
Chapter 3: Welcome to Your Life / MTV Hires the VJs
Chapter 4: Step Right Up and Don’t Be Shy / MTV Blasts Off
Chapter 5: Let’s Make Lots of Money / Contracts and Paychecks
Chapter 6: There’s Always Something Happening and It’s Usually Quite Loud / The First Days of MTV
Chapter 7: Don’t Talk to Strangers / The Wages of Semi-Fame
Chapter 8: Sometimes You Tell the Day by the Bottle That You Drink / Life in Hell’s Kitchen
Chapter 9: Ain’t Nothing Gonna Break My Stride / Early Triumphs and Tribulations
Chapter 10: Here in My Car, I Feel Safest of All / Rental Cars and Limousines
Chapter 11: I Hope That When This Issue’s Gone, I’ll See You When Your Clothes Are On / Nude Photographs
Chapter 12: I’m a Cool Rocking Daddy in the U.S.A. Now / The Mighty J. J. Jackson
Chapter 13: Hot in the City / New York City Serenade
Chapter 14: Throw Your Arms around the World at Christmastime / Christmas Songs and New Year’s Eve Shows
Chapter 15: Take My Tears and That’s Not Nearly All / Romance and Its Discontents
Chapter 16: I’ll Kick You Out of My Home If You Don’t Cut That Hair / Makeup and Hairstyles
Chapter 17: And Now You Find Yourself in ’82 / Early MTV Videos-a-Go-Go
Chapter 18: I Know There’s Something Going On / Alan and Martha’s Dangerous Game
Chapter 19: Things Can Only Get Better / Cable TV’s Potholes and Pitfalls
Chapter 20: I Spend My Cash on Looking Flash and Grabbing Your Attention / Fashion in the 1980s
Chapter 21: She’s Precocious and She Knows Just What It Takes to Make a Pro Blush / Martha Quinn, America’s Sweetheart
Chapter 22: They Told Him Don’t You Ever Come ’Round Here / The Irresistible Rise of Michael Jackson
Chapter 23: I Might Like You Better If We Slept Together / Celebrity Flirtations and Liaisons
Chapter 24: You Must Be My Lucky Star / Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
Chapter 25: Every Time I Think of You, I Always Catch My Breath / Romance and Regret with John Waite
Chapter 26: That’s My Soul Up There / MTV Hits the Road
Chapter 27: I’ve Seen You on the Beach and I’ve Seen You on TV / The Cultural Impact of MTV
Chapter 28: I Want to Be the One to Walk in the Sun / The Most Unusual Miss Cyndi Lauper
Chapter 29: You Play the Guitar on the MTV / Heavy Metal Thunder
Chapter 30: You May Find Yourself in a Beautiful House with a Beautiful Wife / Mark and Carol
Chapter 31: My Beacon’s Been Moved under Moon and Star / MTV Heads Uptown
Chapter 32: Jokerman Dance to the Nightingale Tune / Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan
Chapter 33: The Kids in America / MTV Contests’ Winners and Losers
Chapter 34: I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me / Celebrity and Its Consequences
Chapter 35: What a Pity You Don’t Understand / The VJs Versus MTV Management
Chapter 36: I Said to the Man, “Are You Trying to Tempt Me?” / White Lines
Chapter 37: I Was There to Match My Intellect on National TV / The Toughest Interviews
Chapter 38: There Comes a Time When We Heed a Certain Call / “We Ruined Live Aid”
Chapter 39: Love Is a Battlefield / Martha Meets Stiv Bator
Chapter 40: I Guess I Should Have Known by the Way You Parked Your Car Sideways That It Wouldn’t Last / The Final Days of Nina and J. J.
Chapter 41: The Kid Is Hot Tonight / Alan Hunter Coast to Coast
Chapter 42: I Don’t Wanna Lose Your Love Tonight / Martha Finds True Love
Chapter 43: Every Now and Then I Get a Little Bit Nervous That the Best of All the Years Have Gone By / MTV Changes, Not Always for the Better
Chapter 44: The Five Years We Have Had Have Been Such Good Times / Martha Leaves MTV
Chapter 45: The Party Boys Call the Kremlin / Billy Joel in Russia
Chapter 46: I’m a Man Who Doesn’t Know How to Sell a Contradiction / Introducing Kurt Loder
Chapter 47: We’ll Be Moving on and Singing That Same Old Song / The Departure of Alan and Mark
Chapter 48: After the Fire, the Fire Still Burns / Life after MTV
Chapter 49: Don’t You Forget about Me / R.I.P., J. J. Jackson
Chapter 50: We Can’t Rewind, We’ve Gone Too Far / Final Thoughts
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
Photographs
About Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn and Gavin Edwards
Copyright
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