Craig Marks was the top editor for two influential music magazines,
"SPIN" and "Blender." He is the editor in chief of Popdust.
Rob Tannenbaum has been the music editor at "Blender," a columnist
at "GQ," and has written for "The New York Times Magazine, Rolling
Stone, Details, New York Magazine, Playboy, Spin," and "The
Washington Post."
"Highly entertaining" -"Rolling Stone" "Rolling Stone"
"It reminded me of those long days watching MTV, back when it still
played videos...riveting." -"New York Times" "New York Times"
"Hilarious, with behind-the-scenes dirt on hundreds of videos. I
guarantee you'll have a tough time putting it down." -"USA Today"
"USA Today"
"Riveting reading, and a book we expect to see on the best-seller
lists." -Very Short List Very Short List
"The sheer entertainment value within these pages is priceless."
"-Publishers Weekly" "Publishers Weekly"
"A smart, decadently entertaining oral history." -"Playboy"
"Playboy "
"Just as MTV hypnotized viewers, so the jump-cut structure of I
WANT MY MTV swiftly compels." -"Businessweek" "Businessweek"
"Rollicking. The golden age of MTV was just as wild and debauched
as you would hope." -"New York Post" "New York Post"
"A rip-roaring, hilarious tribute to the cable channel that changed
pop culture. A wonderfully entertaining and enlightening history, a
magnificently enjoyable read." -"The National" "The National"
"Riotous and irreverent. Crack it open to almost any page and
you're guaranteed a giggle. Every gaffe, scandal, and sexual
innuendo comes in for hilarious scrutiny." -"New York Daily News"
"New York Daily News"
"Insiders are already buzzing about the book, which does for music
television what Fredric Dannen's Hit Men did for indie promotion."
-HITS HITS
"A smart oral history." -"Billboard" "Billboard"
"A wild trip down memory lane, this cool history makes us '80s and
'90s kids totally nostalgic." -"NYLON" "NYLON"
"Hugely readable and insanely fun." -"Pitchfork" "Pitchfork"
"It makes you laugh, it makes you cry. I couldn't put it down. This
is the best book I've read on how the music business really works."
-Bob Lefsetz, "The Lefsetz Letter" Bob Lefsetz, The Lefsetz
Letter
"An obscenely entertaining (and entertainingly obscene) account of
MTV's early days." -Dave Holmes Dave Holmes
"The entire Grantland staff is obsessed with the book" -Grantland
Grantland
"The writers certainly did their homework, chronicling the wild and
crazy ride of the network in the words of its own eclectic cast of
characters...there is plenty to sink your teeth into with this
book." -Hollywood Reporter Hollywood Reporter
"It's part voyeurism, part nostalgia, part social commentary - the
perfect pulp non-fiction read for the cooling months ahead."
-Modern Tonic Modern Tonic
"I WANT MY MTV chronicles MTV as I, and many others, would like to
remember it: a lot of fun when it first came on the scene and a joy
to watch every day" -TG Daily TG Daily "MTV changed America and
this book will change how you think about MTV. It's a fascinating
look deep inside how MTV became what it was from the mouths of
those who made it. Everyone who loved or hated MTV will love this
story filled with fights, drugs, sex and music." -Toure, author of
"Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?"
Toure, author of "Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?"
"Before Google and before Apple, MTV was the one post-60s American
enterprise that really transformed the culture. And now we have
this definitive, riveting, revealing, amazingly well-reported
insiders' account of how an improbable group of visionaries made it
up as they went along. You want "I Want My MTV."" -Kurt Andersen,
author of "Heyday" and "Reset," and host of public radio's "Studio
360" ""I Want My MTV" is such a big, wild joyride of book, made to
be read with glee and nostalgia and marvel. It's also a thoughtful
and astonishingly well-researched historical document, of course,
but mostly it's just a total gas. It's all in here, folks! Girls in
cages! TV executives on blow! Dudes in eyeliner! Chicks with
guitars! Pyrotechnics, consumerism, fame, destruction and
shamelessness! Anyone who came of age during the glory days of MTV
will be-page by page-steadily transported right back to your
boyfriend's parent's wood-paneled den, to savor once more the
life-changing lessons of decadence and magic we learned from cable
TV." -Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of "Eat, Pray, Love
"and "Committed "
""I Want My MTV "is the definitively funny-yet loving-chronicle of
music video's golden age: the hopes, the dreams, the drugs, the
hair, the legacy of Tawny Kitaen. And for gossip, it's packed
tighter than one of Heart's spandex bustiers." -Rob Sheffield,
author of the national bestseller "Love is a Mix Tape "and "Talking
to Girls About Duran Duran ""
"MTV changed America and this book will change how you think about
MTV. It's a fascinating look deep inside how MTV became what it was
from the mouths of those who made it. Everyone who loved or hated
MTV will love this story filled with fights, drugs, sex and music."
-Toure, author of "Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?"
---Toure, author of"Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?"
"Before Google and before Apple, MTV was the one post-60s American
enterprise that really transformed the culture. And now we have
this definitive, riveting, revealing, amazingly well-reported
insiders' account of how an improbable group of visionaries made it
up as they went along. You want "I Want My MTV"." -Kurt Andersen,
author of "Heyday" and "Reset", and host of public radio's "Studio
360"
"Highly entertaining"
-"Rolling Stone"
"It reminded me of those long days watching MTV, back when it still
played videos...riveting."
-"New York Times"
"Hilarious, with behind-the-scenes dirt on hundreds of videos. I
guarantee you'll have a tough time putting it down."
-"USA Today"
"Riveting reading, and a book we expect to see on the best-seller
lists."
-Very Short List
"The sheer entertainment value within these pages is
priceless."
-"Publishers Weekly"
"I WANT MY MTV is compulsively entertaining, hugely edifying, and
occasionally profound"
-"TIME"
"A smart, decadently entertaining oral history."
-"Playboy "
"Just as MTV hypnotized viewers, so the jump-cut structure of I
WANT MY MTV swiftly compels."
-"Businessweek"
"Rollicking. The golden age of MTV was just as wild and debauched
as you would hope."
-"New York Post"
"A rip-roaring, hilarious tribute to the ca
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