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I remember the day MTV went on the air. Us neighborhood kids were outside playing (riding bicycles or something) and one kid comes tearing up to us. "C'mon, you gotta see this," he says. "What?" "You'll see," teased our friend, Lance.
So we go to his family's house and there on the floor-mount console television is the close of Billy Idol's "White Wedding." I remember thinking, "oh, it's just some TV show," but then quickly realized the glorious novelty of this new channel; namely, that I wouldn't necessarily have to stay up all night on weekends anymore watching "Night Tracks" on WTBS, the SuperStation out of Atlanta. And although I didn't see The Buggles do "Video Killed the Radio Star" the first time they played it, I saw it at the top of that next hour.
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