“As I’m about to turn 80, I’d like to think I’ve become wise in some ways,” Tina Turner just told Rolling Stone. But there’s never been a revival like Tina’s Eighties comeback. She became a solo superstar when she was 44. Things like that just don’t happen. (For context: That’s how old Lauryn Hill, Andre 3000, Mark Ronson, and Jack White are now.)
Related: Tina Turner on the Cover of Rolling Stone
None of it happened the easy way. Tina’s always been a fighter, because she had to be.
Related: Tina Turner on the Cover of Rolling Stone
None of it happened the easy way. Tina’s always been a fighter, because she had to be.
- 11/26/2019
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
The first thing you want from a history of MTV is to get dunked in the hot-but-cool nostalgia of it, and the fast, fleet documentary “I Want My MTV” delivers those 1980s goods about as good as you can get. Here’s “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the novelty single by the Buggles that launched the channel on Aug. 1, 1981 — a tune that, in hindsight, sounds as sing-song catchy in its percolating bliss as a Divertimento by Mozart. Here are the five original VJs — shaggy Mark Goodman, earnest Alan Hunter, snarky Martha Quinn, jovial J.J. Jackson, and hipstery Nina Blackwood — fumbling around against a set that looks more like Wayne Campbell’s basement than a television studio, tossing off we’re-making-this-up-on-the-spot-and-we-know-it patter that became the casual formative version of “attitude.”
Here are those primitive early days when for every music video that was made with flair, like the S&M-flavored Old...
Here are those primitive early days when for every music video that was made with flair, like the S&M-flavored Old...
- 5/7/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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