MTV

Twenty-year-old Kurt Jefferis was on head trauma medication when he won MTV ‘Lost Weekend’ contest and spent two nights with the band.

Producer Dick Clark had to be tackled to stop him from running onstage during Clay's notorious set at the 1989 VMAs.

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

"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first clip aired on the network, but that's not how some executives wanted it to go.

Rapper joins band for renditions of “Dream On” and “Toys in the Attic” at awards ceremony.

While it'd be surreal today to see a recording artist leading staffers through an on-air holiday singalong, at the time, it was a perfectly MTV thing to do.

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

When MTV launched, the music industry’s concept of artist promotion completely changed. How would Tom Petty's defiantly gimmick-free, rugged Americana fit in?

Elton John has made his first public appearance since falling “violently ill” last month – and he took the opportunity to slam the “MTV generation” for their lack of musical ability.

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

Everyone at the 1996 Video Music Awards went crazy when host Dennis Miller brought out the long-estranged bandmates.

We make fun of James Franco an awful lot on the internet — remember his short-lived flirtation with a Blood Meridian adaptation before it turned out he never had the rights to the movie? — but credit where it is due: Franco isn’t afraid to lend his celebrity to some pretty challenging subject matter. And after checking out the first trailer for Goat, I think it’s safe to say that Franco’s work as both actor and producer were well-placed on this one.