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You watch a 14-minute music video and suddenly the way music appears on television feels different forever. The debut of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" on MTV in 1983 fused cinematic storytelling, ...

As revolutionary as MTV was in its early years, the music video network was also under fire for not playing enough Black artists. They were taken to task on this by David Bowie — who was part of the ...