He said the network’s alleged racism was “extraordinarily blatant.”
One such story is of a time in 1982 when Bowie blasted MTV for not playing black artists' videos, recollected in the book Inside MTV.
Bowie in '73.
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Bowie said he first heard about the channel excluding black artists from black musician Nile Rodgers, whom he had hired to work with him to produce his album, Let's Dance.
Rodgers told Bowie that "black music" was frequently excluded from "white radio and white television," and pointed out MTV's refusal to play "Superfreak" by Rick James because they "didn't define him as rock."
"I'm just tired of the bullshit," James once told Rolling Stone. "I have sold over 10 million records in a four-year period ... and I can't get on the channel."
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