"The best part about my life is that I'm constantly touring and seeing all the nooks and crannies of the world while telling jokes. Most entertainers dread hitting the road, not me. The road is my home."
While it'd be surreal today to see a recording artist leading staffers through an on-air holiday singalong, at the time, it was a perfectly MTV thing to do.
When MTV launched, the music industry’s concept of artist promotion completely changed. How would Tom Petty's defiantly gimmick-free, rugged Americana fit in?