John Mellencamp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I've never Googled myself ever because I don't give a fuck.
Well, do you know John Sykes?
He was one of the guys who started MTV.
And I remember calling him up, and I didn't know him.
This was like 1981, 82.
And like I said, you know, it was like...
All you really saw of guys in rock bands were the album covers, you know, maybe on Midnight Special or something like that.
Or Don Kirshner's rock concert or something like that.
But then with MTV going all the time and not very many people made videos.
But see, I was making videos because I had a hit in Australia.
And like I said, Australia was way ahead of us.
So it was the video that I just made in a club in London.
that was shown that made that record number one in Australia.
And so when MTV started, there weren't that many people making videos, but I was.
So they had to make content.