The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star HD (Live 2004) | Best Music videos

The Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star 😎 ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley, recorded by British new wave/synth-pop group the Buggles in 1979, and released as their debut single on 7 September 1979 from their first album The Age of Plastic. The song relates to concerns about, and mixed attitudes toward 20th-century inventions and machines for the media arts. Horn has said that J. G. Ballard's short story "The Sound-Sweep", in which

Video killed the radio starWorlds first song/video to air on MTV in 1981#videokilledtheradiostar#mtvclassic#mtv#thebuggles#fyp | Raized Wrong Productions

On this date in 1981, MTV launched in America. The first video they played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles (1 Aug 1981). In the summer of 1981, music was about to change forever. On 1 August at 12:01 am, MTV flickered to life on cable television, playing the prophetic "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles. As the first words echoed from television speakers across America - "I heard you on the wireless back in '52" - it was clear a revolution had begun. MTV brought the mus