40 years ago, at 12:01am on August 1, 1981, a new cable television station went on the air. That channel was, of course, Music Television, or MTV, for short.
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Famously, this was the very first video played on MTV. Although a 1979 release by Trevor Horn's project, The Buggles, it did have a small resurgence in 1981 because of this.
Technically, we posted this on the wrong blog. Here's why I'm giving it a pass. It was written by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, and Bruce Wooley - who were The Buggles. Wooley left to form Bruce Wooley and the Camera Club and released his version of the song FIRST. It's not the only song he took, but in the end, the Buggles version persisted.
Here is the Bruce Wooley and the Camera Club version of the song. The recording features another "one-hit wonder", Thomas Dolby, on keyboard.
Trevor Horn is still making music. Here he is with his band The Producers in 2014, performing the hit that made Trevor Horn a worldwide star. He's showing a bit more expression in this performance......
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