Not since VH1’s I Love the 80s has anyone assembled so many “mea culpas from rockers who had dreadful haircuts,” said Dwight Garner in The New York Times. Splicing together interviews with over 400 artists, VJs, directors, and executives, the authors have assembled an entertaining parade of “overcooked egos and half-baked creative impulses.” If you came of age in the ’80s, “any given page” of this new oral history of the music network “triggers memories of a classically great or awful video.” For every “Thriller,” there’s a “Rock Me Tonite,” which featured Boston rocker Billy Squier attempting to dance but achieving an effect somewhere between aerobics and epilepsy. I Want My MTV “may be the first book best read at the computer, with your browser open to YouTube,” said Ann Powers in NPR.org.
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