MTV Ruled the World: The Early Years of Music Video
"It's fun to read the first-person accounts of the people who were actually there and made it all happen. I thought it was an accurate and entertaining narrative of a singularly important era in pop culture history." --Weird Al Yankovic "'MTV  Ruled the World: The Early Years of Music Video' takes us on a trip  back to the time when the ‘M’ in MTV actually stood for music. Our tour  guides are the performers, industry professionals, and creators of the  phenomenon that had everyone clamoring, 'You'll never look at music the  same way again'." --Nina Blackwood, MTV VJ"MTV Ruled the World covers the channel's formative years, when music videos evolved from something only a handful of companies even considered into a hugely profitable arm of the industry."--Ron Wynn, Option Magazine"MTV Ruled The Worldbrought back some great memories. It's also a very interesting, entertaining and informative book that captures an important part of music history." --Chad Bowar, about.com"Amazingly comprehensive oral history featuring over 70 interviews with both the talent from that era of MTV and a plethora of the A-list artists featured on the channel during the time period." --Matt Wardlaw, popdose.com"The book not only pulls the curtains back on the upstart video channel but reveals what was happening industrywide in the 1980s."  --Steven Rosen, curledup.com"Greg  has complied a wondrous microscopic view into MTV’s formation and it’s  earliest and what some would deem as its most essential years." --Arasia  Magnetc, thewellversed.com“MTV  Ruled the Worlddetails the halcyon days of a television channel and  its VJs that impacted pop culture in ways its creators couldn’t possibly  have ever imagined." --Peter Lindblad, Backstage Auctions Inc.“MTV  Ruled the Worldcovers a variety of subjects from the channel’s humble  beginnings to the controversy over their decision early on to avoid  playing black artists. There is even one hilarious chapter dedicated to  music videos that served as career killers. --David Medsker,  bullz-eye.com"Similar  to Prato's other books,MTV Ruled The Worldis written in the oral  history format, as the story of the station is told from the  interviewees' point of view." --Shon Troelstrup, Rockstar Weekly"MTV Ruled the  World' will make you miss the original MTV, and make you say, 'I want my  MTV!'" --Stone & Double T, WXRX, Rockford, IL