On this day in 1981, MTV debuted. At the time, they played music videos. The first video they played was by the Buggles (remember them?) "Video Killed the Radio Star."
Not many people know David Monahan, but they sure know what he did. The Irish actor is better known as the streaker who crashed Hayden Panettiere’s speech at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
Ladies ruled at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards: Beyonce’s pregnancy announcement was the big news of the night, Lady Gaga opened the show in style (and in drag) and Katy Perry took home top honors, winning Video of the Year for ‘Firework.’
Artists are usually known to show up in some poor choices of fashion for the MTV Video Music Awards. Usually you wonder why on earth they would pick some of the outfits to wear but they continue to make bad choices. I have picked out some red carpet arrivals, performances and acceptance speeches to highlight some very terrible mistakes in fashion
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In honor of MTV turning 30 today, we decided to show you what they used to play -- music videos. Over the many years of being on the air, MTV has re-invented itself with game shows, sitcoms, drama and reality shows. If you were part of the MTV generation, you may remember that they started with music based shows and music videos...