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MTV's golden era delivered some of the most memorable music videos ever created.

Twenty-year-old Kurt Jefferis was on head trauma medication when he won MTV ‘Lost Weekend’ contest and spent two nights with the band.

Producer Dick Clark had to be tackled to stop him from running onstage during Clay's notorious set at the 1989 VMAs.

Disastrous performance led to guitarist C.C. DeVille's firing.

A passage from 'Duran Duran's Rio' explains why certain bands were all over the network at first.

"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first clip aired on the network, but that's not how some executives wanted it to go.

Plenty of controversial, memorable and influential things happened before they stopped focusing on music.

Some of music's biggest artists were smart to embrace the network when it began.

Determined to get his band heavy exposure, Mark Knopfler borrowed ideas from one of the network's biggest acts.

Scantily clad women, super soakers and Paul without a shirt pretty much sums up what Kiss was about in the 80s.

The show will take place in our current day.

Once powerful taste-maker is a shadow of its former self.