Flashback: See Five Random Minutes of MTV From Summer 1982 Check out awesomely vintage commercials for Atari, Apple Jacks and 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' ...

Nebraska, released on Sept. 30, 1982, through Columbia Records, was Springsteen’s sixth studio album. He recorded the songs ...

What was happening on MTV and in the music world in 1982? 1982 was the start of the 2nd British Invasion (Think: Duran Duran, The Human League, Flock of Seagulls, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel).

Slate Plus members: Get your ad-free podcast feed. In 1982, MTV started guiding Billboard’s taste in music. The year was filled with elaborate videos and cheesy ballads. Chris Molanphy takes us ...

MTV Classic has been a stunning disappointment, but check out a random evening of MTV from June of 1982, when the network was less than a year old.

MTV has announced a return to its original music video format, first debuted in 1981, ahead of the 2025 VMAs. For one week, ...

Joan Jett had major success with 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll', but others that came for the crown that year included Survivor, Olivia Newton-John, and more.

Remember when MTV played music? Lady Gaga, Dave Grohl, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks and others remember their first encounter with the cable station ...

MTV began life back in 1981 and would revolutionise pop culture and entertainment with its back-to-back music videos (it was literally music television back in the day) and, perhaps even more ...

One minute after midnight on August 1, 1981 the worlds of music and television forever changed when a brand-new cable network called MTV was born. Born into only a few thousand households in New ...