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Disastrous performance led to guitarist C.C. DeVille's firing.

A passage from 'Duran Duran's Rio' explains why certain bands were all over the network at first.

Plenty of controversial, memorable and influential things happened before they stopped focusing on music.

Some of music's biggest artists were smart to embrace the network when it began.

In the early days, they were always just a little too dangerous for prime time.

On April 18, 1987, Headbangers Ball premiered on MTV.

The future Van Halen frontman gave one of his most famous solo shows at the Checkerdome in St. Louis, Mo.