26 Days till 30- 1981

Okay, I know this is gonna sound silly especially considering we didn't get cable until John bought it for us when he was in high school (sometime between 1984-1988) because he was tired of not being cool, but 1981 was the year MTV was launched. I know, I know it didn't directly effect me, but it's a generational thing. Enjoying music would become so different for us compared to our parents. MTV would bring us the first videos, the first reality TV and an idea of celebrity so different from what it had been. Image and branding. After all, "video killed the radio star..."