Trevor Horn is best known today as a producer extraordinaire, lending his sonic know-how to artists as diverse as Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Paul McCartney, and Tom Jones. Horn first broke in to the music business, however, as the frontman of The Buggles, a New Wave outfit debuting in 1977. After touring for a few years, they released the seminal album The Age Of Plastic in 1981. The first single from the album, "Video Killed The Radio Star" tore up the charts in the UK, and its video was placed in heavy rotation on MTV in the USA. I have it at #162 on my Top 200.
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Number 162: The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Trevor Horn is best known today as a producer extraordinaire, lending his sonic know-how to artists as diverse as Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Paul McCartney, and Tom Jones. Horn first broke in to the music business, however, as the frontman of The Buggles, a New Wave outfit debuting in 1977. After touring for a few years, they released the seminal album The Age Of Plastic in 1981. The first single from the album, "Video Killed The Radio Star" tore up the charts in the UK, and its video was placed in heavy rotation on MTV in the USA. I have it at #162 on my Top 200.
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always liked the song but did not fully appreciate the rest of Age of Plastic until quire recently. Clean Clean in particular is fantastic with its Clockwork Orange overtones. Did you know the drummer in the vid is Warren Cann from Ultravox & the girl in the test tube is Virginia Hey, the hottie from Mad Max Road Warrior ?
ReplyDeleteNope, I did not know those things. Very interesting.
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