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From ‘American Bandstand’ to ‘American Idol’: How TV Boosted the Music Biz
American Idol, American Bandstand, Soul Train, TRL, Unplugged and more: How these TV shows changed music.
“The one performer who may emerge in a regular berth on the live TV side is [ American Bandstand host] Dick Clark. By the ’80s, music videos had changed artist promotion, but before the end of the decade, MTV planted a flag on more traditional turf. “It’s the good, the bad and the ugly … to the extreme,” singer-dancer and talent judge Paula Abdul told Billboard for a June 21, 2002, article about American Idol: The Search for a Superstar, which quickly reinvented music on TV for the 21st century.
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