Megan Thee Stallion says hosting the MTV VMAs will be 'so iconic'
And with her blonde mane and black miniskirt, the rock ’n’ soul legend shimmied across the stage at New York’s Radio City Music Hall to“Somehow we got them both to agree,” said MTV cofounder Bob Pittman of getting Dan Akyroyd and Bette Midler to host the first VMAs in 1984.
Roots rapper Black Thought looks back on 10 years of ‘The Tonight Show’ — and three decades of hip-hop impact: ‘We changed the game’, David Bowie, ZZ Top, and Huey Lewis and the News joining the performer lineup — along with a relative newcomer named Madonna — it was clear the VMAs were instantly becoming an A-list awards show.
After enlisting NBC producer Don Ohlmeyer, the VMAs came to life as something that would go beyond the cable network. “Actually, the first Video Music Awards show was on MTV and it was simulcast on the Metromedia TV stations, because we needed it to get the audience reach for the advertisers,” said Pittman.At the 1984 VMAs, Ric Ocasek’s the Cars won the very first Video of the Year Moonman for “You Might Think.
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