Those of us who were raised on music videos in the 1980s and 1990s remember the golden age of the medium. Every few minutes a new video would come on the screen on channels like MTV or VH1, and you’d ...

In the 1970s, music videos were just getting popular. It was a time before the MTV video boom of the following decade, so video accompaniment for songs of the disco and glam rock variety was rare.

In the midst of laments that the shared culture of television is dwindling – that charming picture of a nuclear family gathered around the TV set outshone by the glow of individual screens — “Send ...