MTV LAUNCH FIRST DAY SATURDAY 12:01 am AUGUST 1st , 1981 1st hour Part 1
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Ladies and Gentlemen .....Rock and Roll....
On August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m., MTV: Music Television launched with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll," spoken by John Lack. Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching guitar riff written by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over a montage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. With the flag having a picture of MTVs logo on it. MTV producers Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert used this public domain footage as a conceit, associating MTV with the most famous moment in world television history.[5] Seibert said they had originally planned to use Neil Armstrong's "One small step" quote, but lawyers said Armstrong owns his name and likeness, and Armstrong had refused, so the quote was replaced with a beeping sound.
At the moment of its launch, only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it.
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wow i dont want to see fat americans train :/ i dont want reality shows!
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How I wish I was an '80s kid.
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when MTV was about Rock&Roll
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I would gladly buy you lotto tickets!!!
But I admit that "My So Called Life" was a sign of the times. I miss Aeon Flux, The Maxx, Beavis & Butthead, and even their showings of Ren & Stimpy.
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@WarHawk215 And that is also the case in Washington with our elected politicians who only think for themselves, not the citizens and what we want or need.
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arvis97 1 month ago in playlist MTV's First Hour, 1981 40
i want my old mtv back with no reality shows
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