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| 1989 MTV Video Music Awards | ||||
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| Date | Wednesday, September 6, 1989 | |||
| Location | Universal Amphitheatre | |||
| Country | USA | |||
| Hosted by | Arsenio Hall | |||
| Website | mtv.com/ontv/vma/past-vmas/1989 | |||
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| Network | MTV | |||
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The 1989 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 6, 1989, honoring the best music videos from April 2, 1988, to June 1, 1989. The show was hosted by Arsenio Hall at the Universal AmphitheatreinLos Angeles.[1]
This year's show featured the first major restructuring that was done to the Video Music Awards, as four new "genre" categories (Best Heavy Metal Video, Best Rap Video, Best Dance Video, and Best Post-Modern Video) were added alongside the International Viewer's Choice awards. Also, the award for Best Concept Video was retired this year, and the eligibility cutoff date was moved two months down from April to June, making this a 14-month eligibility year.
In terms of the awards themselves, meanwhile, Madonna and Paula Abdul were the night's biggest with four awards each, while rock group Living Colour was the second biggest winner, taking home three moonmen that night. On the other hand, Michael Jackson was the most nominated artist of 1989, receiving nine nominations for two of his videos: six for "Leave Me Alone" and three for "Smooth Criminal." Despite all the nominations, though, Jackson only took home one award for Best Special Effects.
The award for Video of the Year, meanwhile, went to Neil Young's controversial video for "This Note's for You," making this the first time since The Cars' win in 1984 that an act takes home the main award without winning any other one. Unlike The Cars, though, Young's video did not have any other nominations that night except for Viewer's Choice, which until 1994 had exactly the same nominees as Video of the Year. The Viewer's Choice award, however, went to another video that also stirred up controversy: Madonna's "Like a Prayer."
The ceremony is notable for comedian Andrew Dice Clay's stand-up routine that included adult versions of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, leading MTV executives to ban him from ever appearing on the network again.[2]
Def Leppard's performance of "Tear It Down" would be the last live appearance of guitarist Steve Clark before his death on Tuesday January 8, 1991.
Winners are in bold text.
Neil Young — "This Note's for You"
Living Colour — "Cult of Personality"
Living Colour — "Cult of Personality"
Guns N' Roses — "Sweet Child o' Mine"
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince — "Parents Just Don't Understand"
R.E.M. — "Orange Crush"
U2 with B. B. King — "When Love Comes to Town" (from Rattle and Hum)
Art of Noise (featuring Tom Jones) — "Kiss"
Living Colour — "Cult of Personality"
Madonna — "Express Yourself" (Director: David Fincher)
Paula Abdul — "Straight Up" (Choreographer: Paula Abdul)
Michael Jackson — "Leave Me Alone" (Special Effects: Jim Blashfield)
Madonna — "Express Yourself" (Art Directors: Holgar Gross and Vance Lorenzini)
Paula Abdul — "Straight Up" (Editor: Jim Haygood)
Madonna — "Express Yourself" (Director of Photography: Mark Plummer)
Madonna — "Like a Prayer"
Chayanne — "Este Ritmo Se Baila Así"
Kome Kome Club — "Kome Kome War"
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