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Monday, August 1, 2011

25th Anniversary Picture


THE WAY BACK MACHINE: A pair of game-changers mark milestones today. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of MTV’s launch as well as the 25th of HITS birth, your #1 source for self-congratulation, Peter Baron has given us this classic shot from 1986, as the Arista brain trust visits the music channel to present gold records for Then & Now… The Best of the Monkees. Meanwhile, our very first issue boasted, “Monkees, Beatles Back!” Can you believe either of us are still here? And we don't mean the Monkees or Beatles, either. Pictured back when promo budgets were large and expense accounts even larger are (l-r): Arista’s suave Abbey Konowitch, MTV’s dapper Les Garland, future Playboy TV honcho Robert Friedman, soon-to-be media mogul Tom Freston, aging wunderkind Bob Pittman and Jim “Rocky” Del Balzo with then-Arista juvie Baron. (8/1p)

 
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