The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star HD (Live 2004) | Best Music videos

The Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star 😎 ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley, recorded by British new wave/synth-pop group the Buggles in 1979, and released as their debut single on 7 September 1979 from their first album The Age of Plastic. The song relates to concerns about, and mixed attitudes toward 20th-century inventions and machines for the media arts. Horn has said that J. G. Ballard's short story "The Sound-Sweep", in which