Kennedy

The Kennedy Chronicles (eBook, ePUB)

The Golden Age of MTV Through Rose Colored Glasses

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Kennedy's "entertaining and irreverant" memoir reliving the pop music and the madness as an MTV VJ in the 1990s ( Booklist) .

As an MTV VJ, host of Alternative Nation, and correspondent for MTV News, the woman known to millions simply as Kennedy gives us a backstage pass at the last golden years of the cable network that defined a generation.

As only Kennedy can, she takes us back to unforgettable moments such as Nirvana's seminal performance on MTV Unplugged, the unbridled bacchanalia of the MTV Beach House and Woodstock '94 festival, and the game-changing "Rock the Vote" campaign. We read of priceless moments on and off set with such performers as Bjork, Pearl Jam, Weezer, No Doubt, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Oasis, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. And Kennedy dishes on behind-the-scenes antics with MTV colleagues including Jon Stewart, Bill Bellamy, Kurt Loder, and Tabitha Soren.

Kennedy recounts a blitz of surreal encounters: Dragging Stewart to a strip club. Getting naked with Jenny McCarthy. Playing dice on the men's room floor with Michael Jordan. Wrestling with Trent Reznor. Making out in a coffin with Dave Navarro. Dodging calls from Courtney Love. Serving as John Rzeznik's muse for the Goo Goo Dolls hit song "Name." And there was that incident with New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the Video Music Awards. Kennedy intersperses her riotous narrative with candid interviews with Navarro, Henry Rollins, Billy Corgan, Pat Smear of Nirvana, Matt Cameron of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, former VJ John Sencio, and more.

The perfect book for anyone who wants to know what really went on at MTV.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thomas Dunne Books
• Seitenzahl: 337
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250028723
• Artikelnr.: 42538761

Autorenporträt

At twenty years old, KENNEDY became an MTV VJ, a position she held for nearly six years interviewing a range of celebrities on MTV News and at events like the Grammys and VMAs, as well as hosted a series of specials called "How-To With Kennedy." Featured as a pop-culture/political pundit on Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel and TV Guide Network, E! and VH1, she now hosts Music in the Morning with Kennedy on 98.7 FM, one of the biggest alternative radio station in the country, and joins Discovery's hit show "Pitchmen."