>>And I've read somewhere that this was the first musci by a Black artist to
>>be ever shown on MTV.
>>Herbie Hancok on MTV, those were the good times...
>
>"Billie Jean" is widely remembered as the video that broke the color
>line on MTV. At one time, out of 800 acts being showed on MTV, only
>16 were black.
Excuse me if someone already said this , but the reason Herbie
Hancock + co. used robot-type figures instead of humans in the
'Rockit" video was because they were afraid to put African-Americans
in the video ... they knew it wouldn't get MTV play. Pretty sad,
innit? But I guess the positive is it happened to turn out a
memorable and innovative music video ...
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