Please play “Video Killed the Radio Star”(hear it or view a clip or two) and then read on:
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["Video Killed..." was originally recorded by Bruce Wooley & the Camera Club - 1979.]
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[The song was co-written by super-producer Trevor Horn]
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[Keyboards were by a fellow named called Tom Dolby]
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[Several members of the Camera Club joined "The Buggles"]
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[When the Buggles re-recorded the song the drums on the track were played by Warren Cann, the drummer from 'Ultravox.']
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[Buggles member Geoff Downes formed the group 'Asia']
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[Horn would later go on to form "Art of Noise" with Anne Dudley, Gary Langan and Jonathan Jeczalek]
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[Hans Zimmer, who won an academy award for his "Gladiator" sountrack, was a session musician for the recording of the "Buggles" debut LP "The Age of Plastic."]
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