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The duo released their first album, The Age of Plastic, in January 1980. On 7 September 1979 "Video Killed the Radio Star" was released, being the lead single of the album. Soon after the album's release, Horn and Downes joined the progressive rock band Yes, recording and releasing Drama in the process. Following a tour to promote the album ...
Geoff Downes formed the Buggles in 1977 in Wimbledon, South West London with Trevor Horn and Bruce Woolley. [9] The trio had recorded rough demos of early compositions such as "Video Killed the Radio Star", "Clean, Clean" and "On TV", a track later included on their second album, Adventures in Modern Recording. [9]
The Buggles also produced three songs, "Back of My Hand" by The Jags, "Monkey Chop" by Dan-I, and "Film Star" by Tom Marshall. The group formed in 1977 in Wimbledon, South West London, and were signed by Island Records to record and publish their debut studio album, The Age of Plastic, which was released in 1980. [1]
"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).
Adventures in Modern Recording is the second studio album by English new wave group the Buggles, released in November 1981 by Carrere Records.Although the Buggles began as a duo of Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, the album ended up as mostly Horn's solo effort, as Downes left to join the English rock band Asia on the day recording was originally scheduled to begin.
Horn made pop history when his Buggles were the first artist played on MTV, but his "Video Killed the Radio Star" prophecy came true as he produced artists who dominated the decade, like Frankie ...
"Into the Lens" is a song written by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes. It was originally released in 1980 by progressive rock band Yes, of which Horn and Downes were a part, as a part of the album Drama, before being reworked as "I Am a Camera" for the 1981 album Adventures in Modern Recording by the Buggles, a duo consisting of Horn and Downes; both versions were released as singles, with the Yes ...
French extreme metal band Carnival in Coal covered the song for their 2005 album Collection Prestige. [21] The song was performed at a September 2010 Buggles reunion performance, billed as "The Lost Gig", that took place at Ladbroke Grove's Supperclub, Notting Hill, London.