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Video Killed The Radio Star
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A very Buggles song, the one hit that the 70's band scored in the early 80's... with the landmark video that opened MTV transmissions
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Hello World!, I say WELCOME. I'm a 57 years old classic rock fan and musician. For the most part I only do covers of classic rock and folk songs but am known from slipping in an occasional ballad or instrumental here and there too.
Song Info
Genre
Rock • Cover Songs
Charts
Peak #394
Peak in subgenre #38
Author
Trevor Horn
Rights
The Buggles
Uploaded
May 05, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.9 MB • 128 kbps • 4:14
Story behind the song
It is a fun song to sing along, and as MTV used it to start its programming, it marks the birth of an era... tha sadly MTV themselves shot to death with the insipid "reality" show programming they eventually moved to. Videos are still being done but none have the magic of those early years.. esploreing the uncharted waters of music set to video.
Lyrics
I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two Lying awake intent at tuning in on you. If I was young it didn't stop you coming through. Oh-a oh They took the credit for your second symphony. Rewritten by machine and new technology, and now I understand the problems you can see. Oh-a oh I met your children Oh-a oh What did you tell them? Video killed the radio star. Video killed the radio star. Pictures came and broke your heart. Oh-a-a-a oh And now we meet in an abandoned studio. We hear the playback and it seems so long ago. And you remember the jingles used to go. Oh-a oh You were the first one. Oh-a oh You were the last one. Video killed the radio star. Video killed the radio star. In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far Oh-a-aho oh, Oh-a-aho oh Video killed the radio star. Video killed the radio star. In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far. Pictures came and broke your heart, put the blame on VTR. You are a radio star. You are a radio star. Video killed the radio star. Video killed the radio star. Video killed the radio star.
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