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Band Aid, Do They Know It's Christmas?

Who Was in Band Aid, the British Supergroup That Did ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’

One big British star couldn’t make the recording session, but one American group did!

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Watch the Winning Videos From MTV’s First VMAs

Watch the videos for “Thriller,” “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” “Rockit,” “Every Breath You Take” and all of the others that won at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards, the music channel’s first VMAs ceremony.

Police with Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity covers collage

Unpopular Opinion: The Police’s ‘Ghost in the Machine’ > ‘Synchronicity’

In spite of its sales and popularity, ‘Synchronicity,’ while still an incredible record by any metric, is eclipsed by The Police’s penultimate effort, ‘Ghost in the Machine.’

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‘Friday Night Videos’ Helped a Lot of MTV-Less Early ’80s Music Fans

“For many of you, Friday Night Videos will be your first experience with music video” said a narrator during an intro to an early episode of NBC’s series. And it was true. For early ’80s music fans without MTV or cable television altogether, FNV filled a big void.

screenshot from a July 16, 1983, broadcast on MTV. The shot is a medium closeup of VJ Martha Quinn, who is wearing a shirt colored white below the neck, with red ring around the neck and red shoulders down into the arms.

Enjoy Three Hours of Martha Quinn VJ-ing MTV in July 1983

It’s another trip back to when MTV actually was ‘Music Television’ with this three-hour video from July 16, 1983. Besides Quinn introducing videos and delivering music news, there are also great commercials from the era.

The Police Synchronicity

The Police Arrested Us With ‘Synchronicity’ 40 Years Ago

The band’s final studio album dethroned Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller.’