On August 1st, 1980, MTV premiered and played over 160 unique music videos in a 24 hour period.  The 22nd video that they played was the video for In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins.  This was followed by the video for Looking For Clues by Robert Palmer.

Robert Palmer was an artist who would later become famously and forever linked to MTV with his video for Addicted to Love.  Looking for Clues was the first Palmer video to air on MTV and it doesn’t feature the models who would later become famous for pretending to be Palmer’s backing band.  Instead, it features giant phones, giant letter blocks, and Robert Palmer looking for clues.

Enjoy!

The First Videos Shown on MTV:

1. Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles
2. You Better Run by Pat Benatar
3. She Won’t Dance With Me by Rod Stewart
4. You Better You Bet By The Who
5. Little Suzi’s On The Up by PH.D
6. We Don’t Talk Anymore by Cliff Richard
7. Brass in Pocket by Pretenders
8. Time Heals by Todd Rundgren
9. Take It On The Run by REO Speedwagon
10. Rockin’ in Paradise by Styx
11. When Things Go Wrong by Robin Lane & The Chartbusters
12. History Never Repeats by Split Enz
13. Hold On Loosely by .38 Special
14. Just Between You And Me by April Wine
15. Sailing by Rod Stewart
16. Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden
17. Keep On Loving You by REO Speedwagon
18. Better Than Blue by Michael Johnson
19. Message of Love by The Pretenders
20. Mr. Briefcase by Lee Ritenour
21. Double Life by The Cars
22. In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins