<P> The song's music video was written, directed, and edited by Russell Mulcahy, and is well - remembered as the first music video shown on MTV in the United States at 12: 01a. m. on 1 August 1981, and the first video shown on MTV Classic in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2010 . The song has received several critical accolades, such as being ranked number 40 on VH1's 100 Greatest One - Hit Wonders of the' 80s . It has been covered by many recording artists . Trevor Horn has performed the song, both at Buggles reunions and with The Producers, since 1998 . </P> <P> The Buggles, which formed in 1977, first consisted of Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley . They all wrote "Video Killed the Radio Star" in an hour of one afternoon in 1978, six months before it was recorded, together in Downes' apartment, which was located above a monumental stonemason's in Wimbledon Park London . The piece was built up from a chorus riff developed by Woolley . It is one of the three Buggles songs that he assisted in writing, the two others being "Clean, Clean" and "On TV ." An early demo of the song they did helped the group get signed to Island Records to record and publish their debut album The Age of Plastic . Woolley left during recording to form his own band, The Camera Club, which did their own version of "Video", as well as "Clean, Clean" for their album English Garden . </P> <P> Horn has said that the short story "The Sound - Sweep", in which the title character--a mute boy vacuuming up stray music in a world without it--comes upon an opera singer hiding in a sewer, provided inspiration for "Video," and he felt "an era was about to pass ." Horn claimed that Kraftwerk was another influence of the song: "...It was like you could see the future when you heard Kraftwerk, something new is coming, something different . Different rhythm section, different mentality . So we had all of that, myself and Bruce, and we wrote this song probably six months before we recorded it ." </P> <P> All the tracks of The Age of Plastic deal with positives and concerns of the impact of modern technology . The theme of "Video Killed the Radio Star" is thus nostalgia, with the lyrics referring to a period of technological change in the 1960s, the desire to remember the past and the disappointment that children of the current generation would not appreciate the past . The lyrics relate to concerns of the varied behaviors towards 20th - century technical inventions and machines used and changed in media arts such as photography, cinema, radio, television, audio recording and record production . Woolley worried about the song's name, given the existence of a band with the name Radio Stars and a song titled "Video King" by singer Snips . </P>

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