On the recent MTV Video Awards, Justin Timberlake complained about MTV not playing enough music video. The next day, the New York Times called out the obvious: YouTube is this generation's MTV. But not this generation: all generations. YouTube gives you music videos you can't get any other way. For example, here is inimitatible David Bowie, first -- with Luther Vandross singing backup no less -- singing Young Americans in 1974:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bed-pnf6oGY]
and here's Bowie doing "Rebel Rebel" , 25 years on....
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOn6oVKG95k]
YouTube is amazing, as is David Bowie. :)
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