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Originally Posted by gldstwmn
As I suspected and stated earlier in this thread, it was a big deal for him to play on this record.
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I don't see how, it would have to be spelled out for me as I could see the Aerosmith-Run DMC thing being ground-breaking but Van Halen was only following in others' footsteps like Mike Bloomfield's not to mention Peter Green. Not being in the U.S. at the time or getting MTV I can't say if they had some no black artists videos policy Billie Jean broke but Canadian tv had black vjs and black artists like Eddy Grant and Joan Armatrading making videos for tv shows. A friend also says he saw James Brown do the Moonwalk in the '70s.