Pop music sampling (from the 1980s) have also been utilized as methods for the creation and elaboration of pop music. By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of music television channels like MTV, which "favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson and Madonna who had a strong visual appeal". The latter half of the 20th-century included a large-scale trend in American culture in which the boundaries between art and pop music were increasingly blurred. Between 1950 and 1970, there was a debate of pop versus art. Since then, certain music publications have embraced
Madge Harvey in a luxurious villa in Altea. They decide to invite the Garvey family to Spain for Christmas, but Madge is disappointed when Mel fails to get in contact from his business trip to Marrakech. Despite great difficulty in booking an act, (she aggressively fired Su Pollard over Christmas Dinner, after mistaking her for Rod Hull) Madge successfully puts on an excellent Christmas show at the Palace, but her joy is short-lived when she discovers that Mel has died in Marrakech, having hidden the fact that he had developed a terminal illness from Madge. Madge decides to remain in Benidorm following