The Buggles

The Buggles were a pop/rock band formed in 1977 consisting of Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes. They had re-teamed after an earlier incarnation, Camera Club, which had also included Bruce Wooley, Thomas Dolby, and Hans Zimmer (Academy Award-winning film composer). The Buggles achieved fame with their first single, "Video Killed the Radio Star", a number-one hit in the UK charts, whose video launched nascent cable network MTV on August 1, 1981.

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• They send the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest
  And as they drag you through the door, they tell you that you've failed the test.
  • "Living in the Plastic Age", The Age of Plastic (1980)

• Hello, Doctor, lift my face
  I wish my skin could stand the pace.
  • "Living in the Plastic Age"

• I heard you on the wireless back in '52
  Lying awake intent at tuning in on you.
  If I was young, it didn't stop you coming through.
  • "Video Killed the Radio Star", The Age of Plastic (1980)

• They took the credit for your second symphony.
  Rewritten by machine and new technology,
  and now I understand the problems you can see.
  • "Video Killed the Radio Star"

• Video killed the radio star.
  • "Video Killed the Radio Star"

• And now we meet in an abandoned studio.
  We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
  • "Video Killed the Radio Star"

• In my mind and in my car
  We can't rewind, we've gone too far.
  Pictures came and broke your heart.
  Put the blame on VTR.
  • "Video Killed the Radio Star"