Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.