What it was really like to be the first music video on MTV

Music and television changed forever in 1981, when MTV began by playing their first music video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. This is what it was really like to be the first music video on MTV.

By the mid-1970s, work-for-hire English bassist Trevor Horn had moved into production and opened a studio. He was tasked with putting together a touring band for his girlfriend at the time, pop singer Tina Charles. Keyboardist Geoff Downes auditioned, and they hit it off so well that he and Horn decided to form a band, bringing in guitarist Bruce Woolley. The three started jamming and writing music together; the third song they composed was "Video Killed the Radio Star."

Woolley soon dropped out though to pursue a solo career, so Horn and Downes continued as a duo. Horn told The Guardian

"[I] had this vision of the future where record companies would have computers in the basement and manufacture artists."

With that in mind, they decided to style themselves as, quote, "robot Beatles," and thus The Buggles were born.

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Meet The Buggles | 0:13
Dueling Buggles | 1:00
Breaking new ground | 2:20
I want my MTV | 2:55
End of The Buggles | 3:42
Legacy | 4:36

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