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It's the end of an era. Maybe not a great era, but an era none-the-less. Around the time that MTV started shilling to the tweenaged masses, they moved into their 1515 Broadway studios in Times Square. The year was 1997, the Real World cast was in Boston, and the network was only just starting to be criticized for their lack of, you know, music videos.

If you've had basic cable access over the past few decades, you know the voice and face of John Norris. The MTV News anchor has been a staple at the network--delivering up-to-the-minute music news, interviewing every bold-faced name in the book, and even helping to bring politics into the mix (Choose or Lose, anyone?). Being one of the only familiar faces left there, rumors of his lay-off from MTV served as another death rattle for the network, maybe even the final nail in the coffin. Norris has continued to keep up with the music scene, and has often been spotted at McCarren Pool, Todd P shows, and talking to the up-and-comers of a new generation of music. This week he told us a little bit about what his life has been like up to now.