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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).
The song is frequently quoted, [9] [10] [11] especially in works about plagiarism. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Writing about it in Billboard , Jim Bessman calls the song "dazzlingly inventive in its shameless promotion of plagiarism", calling out in particular a sequence in which Lehrer strings together rhymes from the names of ten Russian [ sic ...
The song was also performed as part of a greatest hits medley at the 2010 Brit Awards where Williams won the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Music Award on 16 February. [10] " Morning Sun" was performed by Williams at the 2010 Echo Awards in Berlin on 4 March, where he won the award for Best International Male Artist. [ 11 ]
"Video Killed the Radio Star," the second track, refers to a period of technological change in the 1960s, the desire to remember the past and the disappointment that children of the current generation would not appreciate the past. [27] The fast-paced third song, "Kid Dynamo," is about the effects of media on a futuristic kid of the 1980s. [7]
The lead single for The Age of Plastic was "Video Killed the Radio Star", released in 1979. The song was a huge commercial success, becoming the 444th number one hit on the UK Singles Chart, spending one week at the top. [2] It was also number 1 on fifteen other international record charts [2] and sold more than five million copies worldwide. [3]
Songs about radio or specific radio programs, excluding program theme songs whose only radio topic is the show itself. Pages in category "Songs about radio" The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total.
Lehrer's song has been described as "well-informed and literate ... enjoyed by new math proponents and critics alike". [7] Historian Christopher J. Phillips writes that, by including this song among other songs of great political and social import on That Was the Year That Was , Lehrer "seamlessly—and accurately—placed the new math among ...
James Earl Jones passed away on September 9th. He was a part of American culture in so many ways. His voice was Darth Vader and Mufasa, and his “People Will Come” speech from Field of Dreams ...