Famous Lost Words

1008 - MuchMusic: the early years, plus Bowie and Peter Gabriel, on music videos.

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2024 marked the 40th anniversary of MuchMusic – which, for our non-Canadian listeners, was essentially Canada’s version of MTV.  And while MTV had a profound impact on the music industry, MuchMusic arguably had a massive impact on Canadian culture.           So, we’re going to spend a bit of time talking about MuchMusic – and since Christopher is the original Much veejay, it’s kind of a no brainer.            In fact, most of Tom’s “in-depth” research for this episode came from Christopher’s excellent book, “Is This Live: Inside The Wild Early Years of MuchMusic, The Nation’s Music Station”.  So in other words, Christopher did ALL of the heavy lifting for this episode!    To help us tell the Much story is one of our favourite people – and a MuchMusic veejay from the early years – Laurie Brown!  Laurie explain