The First Stars of MTV - Michael... [3 DVDs] - DVD

It's been around for over 30 years and in that time become an iconic platform for youth culture and entertainment. But when it first began the mighty MTV was the only channel in the world playing music videos 24 hours a day and in so doing revealed to a near obsessed young audience exactly what their favourite stars looked and moved like, how sexy they were and how good or bad a performer.

In the case of the three artists whose stories make up this 3 DVD set the answer to that final question was always; 'just about as good as it's ever likely to get'. Because without Madonna, Prince and Jacko on heavy rotation, strutting their stuff in a manner previously not witnessed anywhere or by anyone, MTV may never have pulled it off and remained a half remembered novelty that, for a short while, somehow got on the TV by playing awful records by boys that looked like girls.

The films that make up this presentation set get to the heart of the three most perfect artists and performers of the 1980s and reveal just why these maverick individuals became the entertainers who summed up the sounds and style of that colourful decade better than anyone else who emerged at the time.