Craig Marks was the top editor for two influential music magazines,
SPIN and Blender. He is the editor in chief of Popdust.
Rob Tannenbaum has been the music editor at Blender, a columnist at
GQ, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone,
Details, New York Magazine, Playboy, Spin, and The Washington Post.
"Highly entertaining" -Rolling Stone
"It reminded me of those long days watching MTV, back when it still
played videos...riveting." -New York Times
"Hilarious, with behind-the-scenes dirt on hundreds of videos. I
guarantee you'll have a tough time putting it down." -USA Today
"Riveting reading, and a book we expect to see on the best-seller
lists." -Very Short List
"The sheer entertainment value within these pages is priceless."
-Publishers Weekly
"A smart, decadently entertaining oral history." -Playboy
"Just as MTV hypnotized viewers, so the jump-cut structure of I
WANT MY MTV swiftly compels." -Businessweek
"Rollicking. The golden age of MTV was just as wild and debauched
as you would hope." -New York Post
"A rip-roaring, hilarious tribute to the cable channel that changed
pop culture. A wonderfully entertaining and enlightening history, a
magnificently enjoyable read." -The National
"Riotous and irreverent. Crack it open to almost any page and
you're guaranteed a giggle. Every gaffe, scandal, and sexual
innuendo comes in for hilarious scrutiny." -New York Daily News
"Insiders are already buzzing about the book, which does for music
television what Fredric Dannen's Hit Men did for indie promotion."
-HITS
"A smart oral history." -Billboard
"A wild trip down memory lane, this cool history makes us '80s and
'90s kids totally nostalgic." -NYLON
"Hugely readable and insanely fun." -Pitchfork
"It makes you laugh, it makes you cry. I couldn't put it down. This
is the best book I've read on how the music business really works."
-Bob Lefsetz, The Lefsetz Letter
"An obscenely entertaining (and entertainingly obscene) account of
MTV's early days." -Dave Holmes
"The entire Grantland staff is obsessed with the book"
-Grantland
"The writers certainly did their homework, chronicling the wild and
crazy ride of the network in the words of its own eclectic cast of
characters...there is plenty to sink your teeth into with this
book." -Hollywood Reporter
"It's part voyeurism, part nostalgia, part social commentary - the
perfect pulp non-fiction read for the cooling months ahead."
-Modern Tonic
"I WANT MY MTV chronicles MTV as I, and many others, would like to
remember it: a lot of fun when it first came on the scene and a joy
to watch every day" -TG Daily
"MTV changed America and this book will change how you think about
MTV. It's a fascinating look deep inside how MTV became what it was
from the mouths of those who made it. Everyone who loved or hated
MTV will love this story filled with fights, drugs, sex and music."
-Toure, author of Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?
"Before Google and before Apple, MTV was the one post-60s American
enterprise that really transformed the culture. And now we have
this definitive, riveting, revealing, amazingly well-reported
insiders' account of how an improbable group of visionaries made it
up as they went along. You want I Want My MTV." -Kurt Andersen,
author of Heyday and Reset, and host of public radio's "Studio
360"
"I Want My MTV is such a big, wild joyride of book, made to be read
with glee and nostalgia and marvel. It's also a thoughtful and
astonishingly well-researched historical document, of course, but
mostly it's just a total gas. It's all in here, folks! Girls in
cages! TV executives on blow! Dudes in eyeliner! Chicks with
guitars! Pyrotechnics, consumerism, fame, destruction and
shamelessness! Anyone who came of age during the glory days of MTV
will be-page by page-steadily transported right back to your
boyfriend's parent's wood-paneled den, to savor once more the
life-changing lessons of decadence and magic we learned from cable
TV." -Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray,
Love and Committed
"I Want My MTV is the definitively funny-yet loving-chronicle of
music video's golden age: the hopes, the dreams, the drugs, the
hair, the legacy of Tawny Kitaen. And for gossip, it's packed
tighter than one of Heart's spandex bustiers." -Rob Sheffield,
author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape and Talking to
Girls About Duran Duran
“Splendid. I Want My MTV is compulsively entertaining, hugely
edifying, and occasionally profound.” -TIME
“Hilarious. One of my favorite books of the year. I guarantee
you’ll have a tough time putting it down.” -USA Today
“This is my kind of book.” -Howard Stern
“This colorful oral history of MTV’s early years doesn’t pull
punches or waste time. A relentlessly entertaining book, an
endlessly quotable volume.” -The Onion
“Wildly entertaining. Music and culture fans of a certain age – you
will want this book.” -Washington Post
“Marks and Tannenbaum make business meetings sound as fascinating
as UFC Fighting, with anecdote upon anecdote about models, midgets,
and coke-fueled mayhem.” -Spin Magazine
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