VIDIOT NEWS
VIDEO, SPAGHETTI LINKED! BEVERLY HILLS-The First Annual American Video Awards were presented in early April, striking the offkey video equivolent of the ever-irreievant Grammys. Representatives of various music and video publications voted on the winners, honored for "outstanding" videos for 1982 records that reached the trade papers' Top 10.
VIDIOT NEWS
VIDEO, SPAGHETTI LINKED!
BEVERLY HILLS-The First Annual American Video Awards were presented in early April, striking the offkey video equivolent of the ever-irreievant Grammys.
Representatives of various music and video publications voted on the winners, honored for "outstanding" videos for 1982 records that reached the trade papers' Top 10. Rod Stewart's "Young Turks" was named Best Video, and the Motels' "Only The Lonely" received awards as Best Performance (tied with Peter Wolf's "Centerfold") and Best Director (Russell Mulcahy).
Other winners included Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's "Ebony and Ivory" [Best Soul), Merle Haggard's "Are The Good Times Really Over?" (Best Country) and Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy" ("special merit" recognition after failing to make the Top 10).
One celebrity showed the
general enthusiasm present.
Vace Slick remarked that "videos are the best thing since spaghetti."
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