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...fast-paced, youth-oriented world. But the network never consulted Edwards about his style in order that he could try to cater to a younger generation. Nor did NPR officials ask their audience, many of whom are members of a more forward-thinking age, whose cultural touchstones come from MTV and “Sex and the City” rather than Studio 54 and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Indeed, many of the youth NPR hopes to attract have come to treasure Edwards’ wizened views on the world, which offer...
...Village, and my outdated, less than tidy fashion sense, I wonder whether my refusal to consider any contemporary pop musician his equal is just a premature case of longing for the good old days, like a parent complaining about his kid’s music. A small dose of MTV or listening to the radio usually relieves such concerns pretty quickly, though, and I’m convinced that the decade since his death has, in an almost objective sense, been utter crap for music...
...think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important." Senator JOHN KERRY, responding to a viewer's question during an MTV Choose or Lose forum...
...Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan famously plugged in and used electric instruments to give a rock-'n'-roll charge to folk music. Less famously, in a '94 concert on MTV, Dylan plugged out, giving the alt-rock generation an intimate acoustic look at his musical mastery. That concert, MTV Unplugged, will be released this week on DVD for the first time, along with four extra songs--including his classic Desolation Row--that weren't in the original TV broadcast. --By Christopher John Farley
DIED. JOHN (J.J.) JACKSON, 62, who, with a vast knowledge of music and sense of humor as one of the first MTV VJs, helped usher in the music-video era; of an apparent heart attack; in Los Angeles. During the late 1960s, he worked as a DJ in Boston and emceed for Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin...