The presence of McCartney, still very much a pop radio mainstay in the early 80’s, virtually insured ... But in the meantime, Michael Jackson had the MTV dance-floor to himself.

The '80s were a particularly unique decade in music history. The decade gave birth to MTV, and with it epic ... got their legs while artists from Michael Jackson and Madonna to Foreigner and ...

So began one of the fiercest musical rivalries of the ‘80s ... Making Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller,' which, bundled with the “Thriller” video, could be sold to cable. MTV agreed to pay ...

“Michael, the music, and MTV all went to the mountaintop ... efforts of Stevie Wonder and Elton John. In the ‘80s you had ...