The music video for the song, directed by Russell Mulcahy, was the first to be shown on MTV, when the ground-breaking music channel debuted on September 1, 1981, at 12:10 A.M. On February 27, 2000 it also became the millionth video to be aired on MTV.[1]

It was written by Trevor Horn and Courtney Courson, Geoffrey Downes, and Bruce Woolley. The first version was recorded by Woolley & the Camera Club (with Thomas Dolby as a guest artist) for his album English Garden, which was a hit in Canada. The complicated arrangement and production of the song, which includes a chorus sung by a group of very high-pitched backup singers, foreshadows Horn’s later career as a producer. The Buggles later recorded the song and it reached number one in the UK charts the week of October 20, 1979, the first-ever number one for label Island Records. It also would top the Australian charts, but only barely made the Billboard Top 40 in the U.S. It appears on the album The Age of Plastic.

The first live performance of the song by Horn and Downes came at a ZTT showcase in 1998.[1] In 2004, The Buggles re-united again with Bruce Woolley at Wembley Arena to perform “Video Killed the Radio Star” and another song (”Living in the Plastic Age”) as part of a tribute event to Trevor Horn to raise money for the Prince’s Trust charity. They were joined by Debi Doss and Linda Jardim, who performed the background singing on the original recording. Both Horn and Downes have performed the song live in other acts, including Downes in the 2006 revival of Asia and Horn in his band The Producers, also in 2006.

In November 2006, The Producers played at their first gig in Camden Town. A video clip can be seen on the ZTT Records official website of Trevor singing lead vocals and playing bass in a performance of Video Killed The Radio Star.

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My Videos From This Gig…

Thousand Trees – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w0-QUn9…

Have A Nice Day – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ByUy5El…

Since I Told You It’s Over – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=brCsLA0…

Handbags and Gladrags – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P4NYgfR…

T – Shirt Suntan – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=A_8YC2t…

Same Size Feet – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nlrh0V7…

You’re My Star – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jfx26-5…

Billy Davey’s Daughter – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7wwE0yd…

Dakota – http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=V_hivRn…

The set list…

Vegas Two Times
Tramps Vest
Thousand Trees
Superman
Mr Writer
Wireless Radio
My Own Worst Enemy
Have A Nice Day
Devil
I Stopped To Fill My Car Up
Maybe Tomorrow
Since I Told You It’s Over
Handbags and Gladrags
Madame Helga
My Friends
Pick A Part Thats New
T – Shirt Suntan
Same Size Feet
Just Looking
Local Boy In The Photograph

You’re My Star
Billy Davey’s Daughter
Bartender And The Thief
Traffic
Dakota

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Slaves To The Rhythm
In this brand new, two-hour UK DVD release, the Princes Trust’s Produced By Trevor Horn concert is captured in all its glory (and packaged under its original, intended title). In Slaves To The Rhythm, 13 of Trevor’s best selling acts, guest musicians and a full backing orchestra, come together for one night only. Artists performing live include Seal, Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, Lisa Stansfield, ABC, Art of Noise, Dollar, Propaganda, tATu and Anne Dudley. The DVD will be released 02 June 2008 and will be available direct from the ZTT Shop, so please register interest now via info@ztt.com and we’ll email you back the second we can start shipping orders…
[18.04.2008]

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I heard you on the wireless back in 52
lying awake intent a tuning in on you
if I was young it didn’t stop you coming through

They took the credit for your second symphony
re-written by machine and new technology
and now I understand the problems you can see

Oh oh — I met your children
oh oh — what did you tell them
video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star
pictures came and broke your heart
we can’t rewind we’ve gone too far

And now we meet in an abandoned studio
we hear the playback and it seems so long ago
and you remember the jingle used to go

Oh oh — you were the first one
oh oh — you were the last one
video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star
in my mind and in my car
we can’t rewind we’ve gone too far

Video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star
in my mind and in my car
we can’t rewind we’ve gone too far

(Instrumental)

Video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star

In my mind and in my car
we can’t rewind we’ve gone too far
pictures came and broke your heart
look I’ll play my VCR

Oh radio star
Oh radio star

Video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star

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It is a stunningly personal question that reflects the inner vulnerability of our most influential broadcaster. No, he is not an egotist: he is, at heart, a little kid rattling round an enormous Remuera mansion with three small dogs and a cat, wanting to be liked.

Now the house is for sale, his job of 22 years ends on December 19 and for Paul Holmes, life as he knows it is about to change forever.

Holmes has done it all: the big gory stories, the sob stories, the scandals. He infuriated American yachtie Dennis Conner so much the man walked off the Holmes set on its first evening. He became the interviewer-of-choice for the famously difficult diva Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. He has bared his soul over his alcoholism, his prostate cancer, his marriage break-up and his affair with Fleur Revell. He fronted up to the nation over his step-daughter

Millie Elder’s P problems. For 15 years he worked two jobs – his arduous NewstalkZB gig which required him to get up at 4am and Holmes after the 6pm news on TV One, which kept him working late into the evening.

Many would have crumbled under the strain. Holmes just got louder, prouder and more irascible. He was still in his early 50s and enjoyed devouring the news of the day before the rest of the country woke up. His beloved producer, Phil Armstrong, who died suddenly of cancer in May this year, was still around. “We would meet on the steps every morning for 21 years and, you know, we were wildly successful,” he says.

“Doing breakfast made me well-briefed into the evening. I just loved them, loved the jobs. It was an immense privilege, brought a fellow a bit of prestige.”

He doubtless drank too much and his first marriage cracked under the strain. He swung through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s with a succession of pretty, sexy, flirtatious women on his arm and married two of them. His first marriage was to Hine Elder, mother of his step-daughter, Millie, and 17-year-old son Reuben. He tied the knot a second time with Deborah Hamilton, a real estate saleswoman. Many of their close friends, “the Friday night group” says Holmes, are real estate rather than media people.

Today the wooden sideboard in the sitting room is crammed with photos, many of them Holmes with different people: Bill Clinton, Te Kanawa, his children – and with an old, extremely attractive, girlfriend “it’s strange how that one works its way to the front”.

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