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"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1979. It was recorded concurrently by Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club (with Thomas Dolby on keyboards) for their album English Garden and by British new wave/synth-pop group the Buggles, which consisted of Horn and Downes (and initially Woolley).
Friday Night Videos is an American music video/variety program that aired from July 29, 1983, to May 24, 2002, on NBC.Originally developed as an attempt by the network to capitalize on the emerging popularity of music videos, which had been brought into the mainstream by MTV during the early 1980s, [1] the program shifted over to a general music focus in 1990, mixing in live music performances ...
George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs " Faith " and " Careless Whisper ". He is one of two recording acts to achieve more than one year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one single in the history of the chart, with the other being The Beatles ...
Here's a look at some of the major events that took place in the world the same year that AOL started. ... in the '80s were a fraction of the cost today. The cost of gas was just $1.12 — less ...
This year, the TODAY family paid homage to iconic ‘80s, ‘90s and 2000s movies, with the anchors and co-hosts revealing their costumes from blockbuster films of years past. The end product was ...
The music video promoted the group in America, due to "heavy rotation" on the music video channel MTV. [70] HuffPost editor Daryl Deino ranked the video at number three on their year-end list for best music videos of 1985 stating that the video "represents pure Americana as it was in 1985". Deino also mentioned that the video "proves that at ...
The '80's dance challenge is inspiring parents to break out their dance moves. Kids are impressed. ... who made a video of her own. The '80s fell into her "fun years," she says. Her daughter, Mary ...
"Come On Eileen" won Best British Single at the 1983 Brit Awards, and in 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's sixth favourite 1980s number one single in a poll for ITV. [6] It was ranked number eighteen on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the '80s" [7] and was Britain's best-selling single of 1982. [8]