If you’re old enough to remember when the ‘nation’s music station’ actually broadcast music videos on television, you might want to take a walk down memory lane to the Centennial Concert Hall on Monday.

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That’s when the MuchMusic Experience Tour wraps up a nationwide nostalgia trip centred around a feature-length documentary, 299 Queen Street West, which tells the origin story of the “seminal music and pop culture brand” that premiered on Aug. 31, 1984.

Director Sean Menard took about six years to assemble the two-hour film, granted unprecedented access to the MuchMusic archives, with footage from the era playing as VJ’s memories are presented in voiceover.

Coming along some three years after MTV, the once 24-hour music video channel threw its inexperienced TV personalities into the fire with no scripts and little direction to broadcast live nationwide from its street-level studio.

The doc premiered at South by Southwest 2023.........

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