JEFF STEIN
directed a film about the Who,
The Kids Are Alright
, and many memorable videos, including Tom Petty's “Don't Come Around Here No More,” the Cars' “You Might Think,” and Warrant's “Cherry Pie.”
SUE STEINBERG
was MTV's first executive producer, responsible for the casting of the five original VJs. Now retired, she enjoyed a long career as a television producer.
LOU STELLATO
was a producer at MTV. He is currently creative director at the advertising firm the Warehouse Agency.
LARRY STESSEL
was a marketing executive at Epic Records from 1975 to 1991. He is now a managing partner at the Revolver Marketing Group.
ALISON STEWART
began her broadcast career at MTV News, then reported for
CBS Sunday Morning
and
48 Hours
, anchored ABC's
World News Now
, and contributed to
NBC Nightly News
and
The Today Show.
Most recently, she has hosted and reported for NPR and PBS.
DAVE STEWART
is a musician, songwriter, and producer who performed as one half of the 1980s duo Eurythmics.
ARNOLD STIEFEL
has managed Rod Stewart for many years and also managed Billy Squier.
MICHAEL STIPE
is the singer in R.E.M. He started a film company in 1987 and was a producer of
Being John Malkovich
and an executive producer of
Velvet Goldmine.
DONNA SUMMER
worked in musical theater before recording a string of dance, R&B, pop, and rock hits.
ANDY SUMMERS
is a guitarist best known as a member of the band the Police.
JAZZ SUMMERS
managed Wham!, along with Simon Napier-Bell, and launched the career of George Michael.
JOHN SYKES
is a founding executive of MTV. He was the network's director of promotion at launch and became vice president of programming before his departure in 1986. He later served as president of VH1 from 1994 to 2002 and as CEO of Infinity Radio. Sykes is currently president, national ventures, for Clear Channel Communications.
GEOFF TATE
sings with the progressive rock band Queensrÿche, who won a Viewer's Choice VMA for “Silent Lucidity” in 1991.
JOHN TAYLOR
plays bass in Duran Duran, which he cofounded.
AL TELLER
was president of Columbia and CBS Records from 1981 to 1988. He later became chairman/CEO of the MCA Music Entertainment Group.
JULIEN TEMPLE
directed the 1980 Sex Pistols “mockumentary”
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
and the 2000 Sex Pistols documentary
The Filth and the Fury
. He has made videos for Culture Club, the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Tom Petty, and Whitney Houston, among many acts. He is currently a documentary and feature film director.
ABBY TERKUHLE
was creative director of MTV and the founder and president of MTV Animation. He executive produced MTV's animation showcase
Liquid Television
, which spawned the hit series
Beavis and Butt-head
. Terkuhle is currently the president of Aboriginal Entertainment, a production company.
VAN TOFFLER
is president of MTV Networks Music/Films/Logo Group. He began working at MTV in 1987 in the business affairs department.
TREACH
is a member of the hip-hop group Naughty by Nature. He was married to Pepa, whom he met at an MTV Spring Break.
RALPH TRESVANT
was a founding member of the R&B group New Edition.
LARS ULRICH
is the drummer and cofounder of Metallica.
USHER
is a singer, dancer, songwriter, and actor who released his first album in 1994.
KATHY VALENTINE
plays bass in the Go-Go's and cowrote the singles “Vacation” and “Head over Heels.”
VANILLA ICE
is a rapper whose smash 1990 single “Ice Ice Baby” was “retired” nine years later on the MTV show
25 Lame.
He currently hosts a home-improvement TV series on the DIY Network.
JOHN VARVATOS
is a fashion designer who grew up in Detroit and has played guitar onstage with Cheap Trick, ZZ Top, and Guns N' Roses.
MICHELLE VONFELD
was the head of the standards and practices department at MTV.
RUPERT WAINWRIGHT
directed videos for MC Hammer and N.W.A, and the films
Stigmata
and
The Fog.
TONY WARD
is a model and actor who starred in a number of music videos, most memorably Madonna's “Justify My Love.”
CHARLIE WARNER
was a radio and TV executive for many years. He hired Bob Pittman as a program director and gave John Lack his first job at CBS, and now teaches at NYU's Stern School of Business.
RON WEISNER
is the former comanager of Michael Jackson.
PAUL WESTERBERG
made albums with his band the Replacements from 1981 to 1990.
JANE WIEDLIN
plays guitar in the Go-Go's and cowrote their hit “Our Lips Are Sealed.”
ANN WILSON
is the main singer in Heart, which she leads with her older sister Nancy. The group has sold more than 35 million albums worldwide.
NANCY WILSON
plays guitar in Heart, which she leads with her younger sister Ann. They were one of the few 1970s bands to have hits on MTV.
KIP WINGER
led the 1980s band Winger. He now composes classical music under the name C. F. Kip Winger.
HOWARD WOFFINDEN
is a commercial producer who worked at Propaganda Films from 1986 to 1996.
KARI WUHRER
was a model and an actress before she was hired for the cast of
Remote Control
while still in college. Since then she has been in many films and TV shows, including
Sliders
and
General Hospital
.
“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC
got lots of MTV play for his song parodies “Eat It” and “Smells Like Nirvana” and hosted many episodes of
Al-TV
on the channel.
WALTER YETNIKOFF
was the head of CBS Records from 1975 to 1990. He is the author of the music-industry memoir
Howling at the Moon: Confessions of a Music Mogul in an Age of Excess.
YOUNG MC
cowrote Tone-LÅc's “Wild Thing” while enrolled at USC before releasing his own 1989 crossover hit, “Bust a Move.”
JIM YUKICH
may have directed more music videos than anyone in this book (192, according to MVDB.com). His collaborations with Phil Collins and Genesis are legion; thirty-seven videos in all, including the award-winning “Land of Confusion.” He is currently a TV director and producer.
PETER ZAREMBA
hosted MTV's monthly alternative-music show
The Cutting Edge
from 1984 to 1987. He is the lead singer of NYC's long-running garage-rock band the Fleshtones.
ETHAN ZINDLER
was youth outreach coordinator, at the age of twenty-three, for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. He has since worked for MTV and the White House, and now heads policy research for a clean-energy market-research firm.
Index
ABC (group)
Abdul, Paula
Abrams, Lee
AC/DC
Aykroyd, Dan
Adam & the Ants
Adams, Bryan
Adams, Cey
Addams, Charles
Adler, Bill
Adler, Lou
Adler, Steven
Ad-Rock.
See
Horovitz, Adam
Aerosmith
A-ha (DJ)
a-ha (group)
Aiello, Danny
Ailes, Roger
Alaia, Azzedine
Allen, Bruce
Allen, Joey
Alonso, Maria Conchita
Anderson, Jon
Anderson, Laurie
Angelus, Pete
Anger, Kenneth
Ant, Adam
Anthony, Michael
Anthony, Polly
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Armatrading, Joan
Armstrong, Mike
Armstrong, Neil
Arnaud, Daniele
Asher, Dick
Astaire, Fred
Astley, Rick
Aucoin, Bill
Avis, Meiert
Ayeroff, Jeff
Azoff, Irving
Azoff, Shelli
B-52s
Babineau, Marko
Bach, Sebastian
Backer, Steve
Bagley, Laura
Bailey, Bunty
Bailey, Tom
Bak, Sunny
Baker, Anita
Baker, Carolyn
Baker, Rick
Ballhaus, Michael
Bananarama
Bangles
Banks, Tony
Barbis, Johnny
Barnes, Don
Baron, Peter
Barron, Siobhan
Barron, Steve
Base, Rob
Basil, Toni
Bators, Stiv
Bauer, Axel
Bay, Michael
Bayer, Samuel
Beach, Reb
Beard, Frank
Beastie Boys
Beatles
Beatty, Warren
Beck
Bellettini, Alisa Marie
Belushi, Jim
Belushi, John
Belzer, Richard
Benatar, Pat
Benitez, Jellybean
Benjamin, David
Bennett, Bill
Benson, Jac
Bergman, Georgia “Jo,”
Berle, Marshall
Berle, Milton
Berlin
Bernhard, Sandra
Bernstein, Adam
Berrow, Michael
Berrow, Paul
Bertinelli, Valerie
Beug, John
Bicknell, Ed
Bigelow, Kathryn
Biondi, Frank
Bissett, Josie
Biz Markie
Black Crowes
Black, Michael Ian
Blackwell, Chris
Blackwood, Nina
Blake, Rebecca
Blond, Susan
Blondie
Bloom, Howard
Blotto
Blotzer, Bobby
Bolino, Julia
Bonaduce, Danny
Bone, Mike
Bonet, Lisa
Bon Jovi
Bono
Boogaloo Sam
Boomtown Rats
Bowie, David
Bow Wow Wow
Boy George
Bozzio, Dale
Bradt, George
Brafman, Marcy
Branca, John
Brando, Miko
Braun, David
B-Real
Brickman, Mark
Brindle, Ronald “Buzz,”
Briscoe, Jimmy
Britny Fox
Broday, Beth
Brown, Bobbie
Brown, Bobby
Brown, James
Brown, Jerry
Brown, Julie
Bruck, Connie
Bruckheimer, Jerry
Bryant, Karyn
Buck, Peter
Buckholtz, Tom
Buggles
Bullet Boys
Bunim, Mary-Ellis
Burns, Jim
Burnstein, Cliff
Burroughs, William
Bus Boys
Bush, George H. W.
Busload of Faith
Butler, Geezer
Byrne, David
Cabasa, Lisa Ann
Cain, Jonathan
Callner, Marty
Calloway, Cab
Cameo
Cammell, Donald
Campbell, Joseph
Campbell, Naomi
Cannelli, John
Cantrell, Cady
Capps, Roger
Carey, Mariah
Carli, Ann
Carnes, Kim
Carradine, Keith
Carrasco, Joe King
Cars
Casale, Bob
Casale, Jerry
Casey, Steve
Casper and Cooley
Catherall, Joanne
Chapman, Tracy
Charisse, Cyd
Chase, Chevy
Cheap Trick
Cher
Chicago
Chilli.
See
Thomas, Rozonda
Chilton, Alex
Christensen, Helena
Chuck D,
Cinemax
Clapton, Eric
Clark, Dick
Clark, Ken R.
Clash
Classix Nouveau
Clawson, Tim
Clay, Andrew Dice
Cliff, Jimmy
Clinton, Bill
Cobain, Kurt
Cocks, Jay
Cohen, Lyor
Coldplay
Coleman, Lisa
Coleman, Signy
Coleridge, Tanya
Coletti, Alex
Collen, Phil
Collins, Phil
Combonation
Commodores
Conner, Bruce
Copeland, Miles
Copeland, Stewart
Coppola, Sofia
Corbijn, Anton
Corgan, Billy
Cornyn, Stan
Corradina, Linda
Corrao, Lauren
Cortese, Dan
Costello, Elvis
Coverdale, David
Cox, Courteney
Crawford, Cindy
Creme, Lol
Cribiore, Alberto
Critchley, Eric
Cronin, Kevin
Crosby, David
Crosby, Robbin
Cross, Christopher
Crowe, Cameron
Cruger, Roberta
Cuesta, Michael
Culkin, Macaulay
Culture Club
Cure
Curry, Adam
Curtis, Bill
Cutting Crew
Cutting Edge, The
Cypress Hill
Dajani, Nadia
Dall, Bobby
Danforth, John
Danger Danger
Daniels, Charlie
Danzig, Glenn
Dargis, Manohla
Davies, Kathy
Davis, Clive
Davis, Maria
Davis, Martha