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Devo founding member makes $1M from this '78 single each year. Here's how

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Released on Devo's first album in 1978, "Uncontrollable Urge," known for its energic opening refrain, "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" ...
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Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh Makes $1M per Year Thanks to MTV’s ‘Ridiculousness’ Theme

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Devo opened their 1978 album Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! with “Uncontrollable Urge”, few listeners could have foreseen ...
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The ‘Most-Played Song On MTV’ Earns The Guy Who Wrote It So Much Money Every Year

A cover of “Uncontrollable Urge” is the theme song for the Rob Dyrdek-hosted MTV series, which is pretty much all MTV plays. Tomorrow alone, the channel will air 20 episodes of Ridiculousness, which ...
CNBC

74-year-old musician wrote a song 50 years ago—now it makes him $1 million a year: It's 'easily the most played song on MTV'

Despite a prolific career composing soundtracks for hit movies and TV shows, one of Mark Mothersbaugh's most lucrative pieces of music is a song he wrote nearly 50 years ago. The composer, who has ...
Los Angeles Magazine

Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh’s Still Got An Uncontrollable Urge to Make Art

Any DEVO fan knows that its members’ lifelong obsession with art goes way beyond music. Imagery and illustration, film and video, performance art and interactive immersion are and have always been, ...
USA Today

Devo founding member makes $1M from this '78 single each year. Here's how

Even those who are not familiar with the energy-dome-wearing, synchronized dancing and anti-capitalizing New Wave band Devo, have likely heard the catchy lyrics of the band's most popular single, ...