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.
Quotes
[edit]- 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".
- Elstree, remember me?
I had a part in a B-movie.
I played a man from history- "Elstree", The Age of Plastic (1980).
- God, you know it's hard to keep the fighting clean
- "Clean, Clean", The Age of Plastic (1980).
External links
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- The Buggles, MTV.com