The Year In Music Video

April, 1984

The Circuit-Breaker Award:To the Beach Boys, now minus Dennis Wilson, for prompting James Watt to shoot off his mouth and hit his foot. The then-Interior Secretary protested the B.B.s' July fourth booking in D.C. The President told Watt to go catch a wave.The Technotoy Award:To past MIT technodarling Raymond Kurzweil, for his Kurzweil 250 keyboard synthesizer, revolutionizing synth rock by not only creating a vast catalog of weird effects but actually sounding like real musical instruments when...

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