[SamAdams76]

Although MTV didn't start until 1981, rock videos were being made all through the 1970s. Here is a creative one that the Stones did during the "Exile" period. Really captures the gritty underbelly of early 1970s LA (and some NYC as well).

Rolling Stones - Rocks Off

[waterhill]

LOL, MAGA!

[angmo]

MTV was first aired on my local cable station, in NJ only. Pretty funny. A girl in my high school class eventually went to work for them in the mid 80s. She said they had absolutely no budget.

When they got stars like Pete Townsend and Pat Benatar to say “I want my MTV”, they asked Mick Jagger to do one. He said “how much are you going to pay me?” They guy from MTV said “pay you? this is for your benefit?” Jagger said “I don’t do anything without getting paid. It’s in my contract”. So the guy from MTV pulled a buck out of his pocket and laid it on the table. Jagger put the buck in his pocket and said “I want my MTV” to the camera and left.