From Spain to Sweden, Austria to Australia and Italy to Eire, “Video Killed The Radio Star” was one of many greatest No.1s of 1979. On October 20, 1979, the Buggles single, which has come to outline a pop period, moved to the highest of the U.Ok. chart.
Many individuals don’t realise that “Video Killed The Radio Star” was a canopy, of a single earlier that yr by its co-writer, Bruce Woolley, together with his group the Digital camera Membership. Woolley’s collaborators on “Radio Star,” Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, had simply shaped Buggles, and submitted the demo of their model to Island Information.
It grew to become Buggles’ debut single, and never solely was it a smash, nevertheless it got here to characterize the brand new artificial pop sound of the day – after which lived as much as its title by famously turning into the primary video to be performed on the brand new MTV in 1981. A phrase of recognition, too, for the seldom-credited feminine voice who was so vital to the document, Linda Jardim.
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With the unfailingly eccentric nature of the British charts, “Radio Star” climbed to No.1 on October 20, changing the Police’s “Message In A Bottle” and earlier than Lena Martell’s gospel hit “One Day At A Time“ took its place. Buggles followed up with the album The Age of Plastic and had one more UK Top 20 single, “Living In The Plastic Age,” and yet another that made the High 40, “Clean Clean.”
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Inside a yr, Downes and Horn had been incongruously heading for a spell with progressive rock mainstays Sure, earlier than making a second Buggles album, Adventures In Fashionable Recording. Then Downes joined Asia and Horn grew to become one of many world’s most in-demand producers, however they owed a lot to that quirky chart-topper of 1979.
Purchase or stream “Video Killed The Radio Star” on The Age of Plastic.
