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Neil Young · 1989

Neil Young

Historical music event in the Radio Music History database.

September 6, 1989Award⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Description

Neil Young won Video of the Year at the sixth MTV Video Music Awards for "This Note's For You". It marked a significant turnaround for the song criticizing commercialization, whose video had previously been briefly banned by MTV because of legal concerns over its direct references to corporate sponsors and its parody of Michael Jackson's Pepsi commercial accident.

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