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43 years ago on Saturday, August 1, 1981, MTV premiered on Cable TV Here is the first 10 videos played on air
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8/4/1970: Jim Morrison is arrested for public drunkenness in Los Angeles after falling asleep on a lady’s porch.
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Keith Richards and Mick Jagger playing and singing during a torrential downpour at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Halloween Night, 1981.
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8/6/1981: Stevie Nicks releases her first solo album, ‘Bella Donna’. It spawns four top 40 hits: “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” with Tom Petty, “Leather and Lace” with Don Henley, “Edge of Seventeen” and “After the Glitter Fades”.
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August 1969 Hollywood, California Chicago recorded "25 or 6 to 4" at Columbia Studios. Keyboardist Robert Lamm wrote the song about trying to write a song before 4 am in the house he shared "with a bunch of hippies up above Sunset Strip." 📸lead guitarist Terry Kath and bassist/singer Pete
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8/5/1972: After seeing Aerosmith perform at Max’s Kansas City in NYC, Clive Davis signs them to Columbia Records for $125,000.
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