This was the first video played on MTV way back in 1981. There were videos put out by bands before this, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was made in 1975, but they weren't called "Music Videos" but were called "Promotional Films", plus there wasn't a dedicated place to air them on. They were primarily shown to record executives to showcase a band to geet them signed.
@lumpyfishgravy2 жыл бұрын
Music videos were shown on TOTP every week, to fill for bands who were elsewhere. That was the end of Pans People!
@Meditech5092 жыл бұрын
I don't think Brad and Lex are old enough to remember MTV when they still played music videos.
@thunderstruck54842 жыл бұрын
I knew this was the first I didn’t know Pat Benatar “You better Run” was the second, I looked it up while ago thanks, MTV was a blast back in the fun filled 80s you had to be there!
@jno52 жыл бұрын
And the first song / video played on MTV Europe was Dire Straits ‘Money for Nothing’…..back in 1987.
@MrRezRising2 жыл бұрын
HBO had music videos in the 70s. Video Jukebox showed videos in between movies, back when HBO came on at 5pm. I remember seeing the Village People's In The Navy when I was a little kid in 1979. Side note: The Cowboy aka Randy Jones gave me a nice compliment after I played a set at a jazz club here in NYC. Just a "Hey, you're good" but I got to tell him about how the funky and a bit silly VP songs made me aware of music back in the day. Nice guy. But yeah, there were music videos in the 70s.
@travisbeckner68492 жыл бұрын
There were music videos before MTV, but for years it was only really a thing in Britain on a weekly type show, then MTV mainstreamed it, and many artists immediately capitalized on the video medium
@thunderspike18922 жыл бұрын
This number paid for Trevor Horn"s studio and started his producing career. Horn co-wrote Owner of a Lonely Heart for Yes while being a member also including Geoff Downes. The B-side of the single called Kid Dynamo are also a great song
@Visaliaipa8 ай бұрын
I saw this on the first episode of MTV way back in 1981….takes me back.
@nonplayerzealot42 жыл бұрын
This song was actually produced in 1979 and had fallen into bargain bins by the time MTV aired on 8/1/81. They purposely chose the song as their 1st video because of the obvious reason and it made a 2 yr old song and album start selling more briskly than it did the first time.
@brucer21522 жыл бұрын
this isi not the first version of the song. In 1978 the band "Bruce Wholley and the Camera Club" released one album and this song was on it. That band contained both founding members of the Buggles. Also, of note, Thomas Dolby played keyboards on the album. Those in the know will recognize the name.
@philipchambers41652 жыл бұрын
They may have been one hit wonders in America but they had a few hits in the UK. Their first album was fun but they weren't able to capitalise on it. Trevor Horn was one of the Buggles (it was essentially a duo) and he went on to produce many of the biggest artists in the last 40 years. He was also part of Yes for a time. Also another synth. new wave band called Art Of Noise and their first album was something of a revelation. You might try 'Close (to the Edit)', interesting given where Trevor Horn went later and 'Moments In Love'. Cheers.
@brucedonaldson36272 жыл бұрын
Not the first music video, ever. But, first on MTV. It was late 70s.
@josephrotenberry68372 жыл бұрын
There were so many bands that were HUGE stadium filling acts in the 70's and very early 80's that absolutely died when MTV became the hot way to promote a song. Bands that weren't as photogenic let's say. Journey, Foreigner, Styx, Billy Squire, REO Speedwagon, and so many more were victims of it at the time. I'd say a great many of the biggest drawing/selling acts of 1981 were totally invisible or even gone by the end of 1982. I always thought this song was prophetic in that sense.
@ShreddFly2 жыл бұрын
Hey what's up guys! Greetings from South Florida. Here's one for your one hit wonders. Aldo Nova. Fantasy. You guys rock! Peace!
@jackbutler29892 жыл бұрын
Great song ...the guy on keyboards is the brilliant composer Hans Zimmer who has written the themes for some of the biggest movies "The Power of One " African influence..."The preachers wife" American Black gospel music and many many more superb musical masterpieces if y'all get time "The Rainmaker " from the" power of one" fantastic....
@stuartbloch282 жыл бұрын
First song/ video played on MTV
@reality19582 жыл бұрын
Guys you should do the 2nd video on MTV which was Pat Benatar "You Better Run"! A big hit and a good video too of the band.
@zq9m3xh82 жыл бұрын
Personally, I love this song. Where in hell did 40 years go?!
@MrDboydeluxe2 жыл бұрын
Call me a dummy all these decades later I thought the phrase “we can’t rewind” was actually “we country wined” lol.
@perryedwards47462 жыл бұрын
The lead singer Trevor Horn became the lead singer for yes for awhile
@jackmanbussey2 жыл бұрын
Ha , I am so glad Ya'll laughing , cause ,, ha , it was everything I could do to hang in there with Ya'll ,,, ha
@williamosborne68662 жыл бұрын
Here's the original video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWnVXqeOh7GUsNU and the remastered video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJvdY2aHbpd0atU
@chrisharris79312 жыл бұрын
This song never gets old. More New Wave, please.
@auralfixxation67022 жыл бұрын
New Wave Theater from the USA network was classic.
@chrisharris79312 жыл бұрын
@@auralfixxation6702 No doubt. I was a little too young to appreciate Night Flight when it first came on, but it was great. Never knew what you might see on there.
@bulldawg00692 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I feel so old listening to the younger generations talk about different things lol. Luckily I was born in a time when all of these changes were coming forward. I just hope the next 52 years are as fun. Really enjoy watching you two, makes me smile.
@jmanil2 жыл бұрын
I'm also 52yrs old and I remember this song when it first came out on some new show called MTV. I remember the catalog of music videos was small and MTV only would air for a few hours each day. Do your remember the several weeks count down to Micheal Jackon's "Thriller" video? I remember the first time I ever heard a rap song was by RunDMC my freshmen year in highschool (1983). I didn't even know it was called rap. I just remember thinking how are these singers talking really fast to a rhythmic beat. Then the Fat Boys blew my mind with beat boxing. I was the normal 80's kid that listened to Rush, Billy Squire, ACDC, etc and then I became a fan of the fast talking singers. It was great to see the birth of hip hop, break dancing and all the classic music from the 80's. MTV was great when they just played music videos.
@jeremyw.norwood14532 жыл бұрын
☆ Right!?? LoL... Exactly man! Damn, I so feel you on this one my friend; hell, I don't usually realize the true extent of my "old" age(44)... at least not until one of these types of moments occurs, such as when I happen to be talking with my 19 year old daughter or one of her friends and they'll just suddenly have this confused blank look come across their faces because I've inadvertently made a reference to something which was "before their time" & thus they simply have absolutely no knowledge of it whatsoever... But I also have those moments of realization happen to me while I am watching something wherein there is someone that's as young as these two cool cats here.... LoL, and suddenly it becomes starkly apparent to me how astonishingly disconnected from my own generational experiences during that span of time all of these young folks truly are, simply due to their young age... It hits especially hard whenever they are just discussing how they view stuff from the 70's, 80's, & 90's as being "old school"... heh, damn... OLD school huh?... Ok, fair enough I suppose. Heh... Ah well, I guess rhat getting old is still far better than it's only alternative, yeah? Ha.
@fearmo18522 жыл бұрын
@@jeremyw.norwood1453 "I'm gunna live forever, Baby remember my name" - Name that one! :) Just popped in my head reading you and Jorge's posts. I am right there with you two! Just think the way song lyrics and show catch phrases hit us when we are hanging with our friends and all remember back and laugh (might just be me). Kids growing up now will be visualizing and remembering tiktoks and YT videos...hell some even Vines...I feel sad for them lol! I will say we are the lucky ones because we saw this major development and transition in culture with technology that most do not get to live in their prime years. The excitement of the development of it but that separation without it...an independence. Most twenty somethings and younger don't know life without it and depend on it. I feel we are blessed in that way.
@jeremyw.norwood14532 жыл бұрын
@@fearmo1852 You said it brother! I Absolutely agree...
@FreedomofSpeech8652 жыл бұрын
@@jmanil same!
@carlmarks81702 жыл бұрын
This was released as a single in 1979... So them singing "Back in '52" would be the equivalent today of saying "Back in '95" It's scary how fast time flies... 😲
@fjoliva7102 жыл бұрын
Time Flies like an arrow Fruit flies Like an over ripe banana
@cassu62 жыл бұрын
Bruh...
@letsrock17292 жыл бұрын
@@fjoliva710 Love that!
@CanuckGod25 күн бұрын
Back in '95 I was in high school, now I'm just old 😂 The music video itself aired on MTV as their first ever video in 1981 when I was 3 years old, but not having cable at the time and also living in Canada, we didn't get MTV there anyway; later in the 80s, MuchMusic kinda became the Canadian equivalent of a (primarily) music video channel.
@zq9m3xh82 жыл бұрын
Personally, I love this song. Where in hell did 40 years go?!
@chrisharris79312 жыл бұрын
I do too. Beats the Hell out of Metal and hair band garbage that dominates the channel.
@mikeortiz60082 жыл бұрын
I know and you know whats sad this song sounds better 40 years later than all the crap you hear in todays music!!
@zq9m3xh82 жыл бұрын
@@mikeortiz6008 Absolutely!
@TracyfromNC2 жыл бұрын
sucks. ILove t for the history and memories, but hate it too.
@blgeiger712 жыл бұрын
It went that way
@shaland.mcgrinder39602 жыл бұрын
MTV killed radio, offed itself, and internet took over.
@chrisharris79312 жыл бұрын
Bill Clinton killed radio by allowing monopolies to own all of the stations.
@davidcruz86672 жыл бұрын
Yep, I agree. MTV committed suicide.
@VersinKettorix Жыл бұрын
The classic murder - suicide.
@chrino212 жыл бұрын
This song was predicting the future, but also mourning a past - the radio programs and stars of the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s who were made obsolete by television. VTR = Video Tape Recorder/Recording
@StanSwan2 жыл бұрын
It did not predict the death of music videos.
@zepdog45952 жыл бұрын
@@StanSwan it didn't attempt to. It was radio that was killed (in the early 1900's style) by Video. To the younger generation, people use in the "Old Days" before TV, the family would huddle around the radio like we do today with the TV set and listen to regular daily recordings, NOT just music on them. Whole shows were voiced over the radio. The gap in the youths understanding of history is mind boggling!
@StanSwan2 жыл бұрын
@@zepdog4595 In this context we are talking about MTV not 1900.
@mournblade10662 жыл бұрын
The singer, Trevor Horn, was a full-fledged member of Yes during the record of "Owner of a Lonely Heart." He was also a founding member of The Art of Noise, and was one of the most sought-after music producers of the 1980s and 1990s. Dude is a legend. Too bad you didn't play the original video. It's a classic.
@JRPackerfan803 Жыл бұрын
There's a recent live version that is pretty cool
@willythebluebear Жыл бұрын
I listened to the maxi version of 'moments in love' full blast in my car on my way home tonight, i could feel the bass in my chest. a f masterpiece. just before 'Frond 242', i'm sure you don't know them! ;)
@mournblade1066 Жыл бұрын
@@willythebluebear Wait--do you mean FRONT 242? If so, of course I know them. Legendary 1980s industrial band, up their with Skinny Puppy and Nitzer Ebb.
@666headspin Жыл бұрын
It wasn`t just Trevor Horn that joined Yes Geoff Downes the Keyboard player also joined Yes, and is still their touring Keyboard player, along with being a founder member of supergroup Asia, who are still touring.
@jeffloyer9634 Жыл бұрын
Trevor horn on the Yes album 90125 did production and backing vocals, jon Anderson was the singer.
@Malady2 жыл бұрын
VTR stands for Video Tape Recorder and predated VCR's. VTR's were big reel to reel units, that recorded on two inch wide tape and were used by television studios.
@TheMbeagan2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@StanSwan2 жыл бұрын
Nope, it was a cassette format had them in high school. Reels were never used in any user format.
@Malady2 жыл бұрын
@@StanSwan You're wrong on this. There's a whole wikipedia entry about early VTR including pictures -en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_tape_recorder
@StanSwan2 жыл бұрын
@@Malady Wiki is crap some idiot posted. VTR is simply Video Tape Recorder has nothing to do with the format.
@gergelyvarju66792 жыл бұрын
@@StanSwan There were reel to reel video recorders. collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8096369/ampex-video-recorder-vr1000-video-recorder is the first practical VTR and it came long before cassette based formats. But the cost of such units very prohibitively high for most other users, so they were used by bigger TV channels only. Later several other formats was used. Type A was smaller, cheaper and still reel to reel. Yes, type A was the first standardised format. But for the AMPEX VR1000... You hear it was 45000 USD... But compensated for inflation it is over 420000. But like plenty of large professional electronic devices it also required quite a few things to operate. Obviously it wasn't designed for home use, and when we mention professional use, you would need some editing stations with multiple such video tape recorders, so adopting this technology was very expensive. But Sony CV2000 is a consumer format you see on video at kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYrce6asaNiBnc0
@BlueSkyBS2 жыл бұрын
This song is the essence of nostalgia, for both the subject of the song and for the song itself, since we are "hearing the playback and it seems so long ago", 43 years to be precise.
@lw39182 жыл бұрын
When MTV was a blank screen with the numbers counting down to zero, when it hit zero this was the first video the world seen. It was a great time to be a teenager.
@richardsmith11612 жыл бұрын
Actually The Buggles had two very talented musicians Geoff Downs and Trevor Horn. They both made an album with Yes, Drama which is one of my favorites. Downs was also in the Super group Asia. Both were succesful producers.
@lumpyfishgravy2 жыл бұрын
Horn produced "Owner of a Lonely Heart" just featured.
@teanosuger2 жыл бұрын
And Hans Zimmer in the video
@peterthompson80142 жыл бұрын
Downes is back in YES and Horn is producing them.
@tileux2 жыл бұрын
Exactly. The Buggles were more like a bunch of music producers just having a bit of fun arranging music, much like a DJ today would do. They are kind of a forerunner to guys like Avicii, except what they were doing back then was so new they never stuck at it and moved into traditional producing.
@HeavyTopspin2 жыл бұрын
That's actually amazing. I had always thought this was just a garbage song whose only reason for being remembered was as the answer to a trivia question, but that actually gives it considerably more historical value. Thanks for sharing!
@Bekka_Noyb2 жыл бұрын
such a catchy fun song! ♥ music videos were actually around well before MTV (1981)
@willie4172 жыл бұрын
But there wasn't a show that played them 24 hrs a day with VJs (Video DJ)
@xaspirate80602 жыл бұрын
Back in schooldays, a local UHF channel played videos set to the Top 30 songs of the week whatever... sometimes would not have footage of band at all, sometimes just girls dancing in front of a trippy, psychedilc background.
@willie4172 жыл бұрын
@@xaspirate8060 what year? MTV started in 1981
@joskokrstulovic12582 жыл бұрын
@@willie417 yes,1981
@heliotropezzz3332 жыл бұрын
Video refers to moving images and I always took this to mean (more widely) that TV stars took over from radio stars and radio became less important after people bought and watched TVs. Some radio stars were unable to adapt to TV or maybe only had a face for radio. I think the stilted sounding voices are meant to sound like a throwback to the radio age, but I guess it's open to interpretation.
@lynnschook61242 жыл бұрын
I like this interpretation, makes more sense than a “prediction”. I believe the idea behind I Love Lucy was born from TV execs wanting to put Lucille Ball’s radio show My Favorite Husband on TV. She only agreed to do it if Desi could play her husband. Well…
@gvehar2 жыл бұрын
I think you’re right. The main vocal is supposed to be reminiscent of old-time radio. New Wave Artists were very into video at the time as technology had progressed (not just music videos but video/visual in general).
@darrenmoore13052 жыл бұрын
You are 100% correct. In the 40's and 50's, radio "serials" were the soap operas of today. Families used to gather around the radio to listen to the latest episode. In the late 50's early 60's is when tv shows started to gain traction as television became more affordable and more mainstream. They are right it is about the passing of an era, but it happened 30 years before they thought.
@timholder68252 жыл бұрын
Trevor Horn, the singer with the glasses would go on to be on of the most prolific and respected record producers of the 80's. Like an 80's Phil Spector, but without being a complete nasty nutjob. For instance, Realx, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, is one of his.
@NoCanDu2 жыл бұрын
Owner of a Lonely Heart!
@nflr922 жыл бұрын
Plus he didn't murder anyone as far as we know
@robertfoster16652 жыл бұрын
He also formed the band Art of Noise
@JonnyQuest642 жыл бұрын
Rip Phil! A great man!
@Pixelologist2 жыл бұрын
@@NoCanDu Yes, but BEFORE 90125, he joined Yes as lead vocalist (and fretless bassist) on the album, Drama, after Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman left the band. Keyboardist Geoff Downes replaced Wakeman on that album and would go on to form Asia with John Wetton, Steve Howe, and Carl Palmer (of ELP).
@kellyk59462 жыл бұрын
The first time I heard this in 79. I got it, it still makes me sad to this day.Trevor Horn went onto produce the best album of the 80s. Lexicon of Love by ABC.
@robertkenneth65172 жыл бұрын
This song still makes me a little sad. I grew up with top-40 radio stars, but by 1979-80, everything started changing... and eventually radio DJs and music programs faded away and radio became "canned." MTV and videos killed the radio stars. And then MTV stopped showing videos, so...yeah, that happened. The singers were supposed to sound like an old transistor radio.
@slshanklin2 жыл бұрын
This one, because of the context, would make much more sense to watch the official video, since it's the song that kicked-off MTV .
@rachelharrison79612 жыл бұрын
This song is the spiritual child of the movie “Singing in the Rain” which was about “talkies” taking over from silent movies, but here it’s the visuals of tv taking over from radio shows.
@darrenbent76012 жыл бұрын
Oh man, you gotta watch the official music video. It is so sci-fi, surreal and cheesy. Considering that the video was made in 1979, they did a good job on it. Here's a link if you want to see it, kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWnVXqeOh7GUsNU.
@Macilmoyle2 жыл бұрын
Actually I prefer the live version from 2004 with most of the original line up kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4bKd2dvh9mabbM
@michaelbrooks26702 жыл бұрын
It was released in 1979, but was the first video played at 12:01am on August 1, 1981 on the brand new MTV. The 2nd song played was much better, Pat Benatar, “You Better Run”.
@jmag5792 жыл бұрын
If you look up First 2 hours of mtv Boadcast it’s here on KZbin. So cool!
@SebaVDP2 жыл бұрын
I used to loved this song back in the early 80´s , I guess this song is actually from the late 70´s (the disco era) but it was huuuge in the 80´s. anyway husg guys!!! lots of love from Argentina.
@sda66912 жыл бұрын
Yes, first video on MTV...i personally saw it when MTV came on in 1981!! We were so excited bc all we had at the time was Friday Night Videos late at night. Thanks for the nostalgia. ❤️❤️❤️
@glennthompson11732 жыл бұрын
Check out " I am a Camera". It is a song the band Yes covered too. The two guys in the Buggles ended up joining Yes. The keyboard player Geoff Downes is in the band again right now.
@thomasbianchino31162 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love that album. Tempus Fugit is my fave on the Drama album.
@s.rry-guld29612 жыл бұрын
I remember when this first aired, I remember begging My Dad to let Me stay up till midnight to see MTV launch. My dad hated it cause of the way the guys dressed lol, but its a memory Ill Never forget
@gpxo112 жыл бұрын
VTR is short for video tape recorder-this was before home VHS or VCR's which started gaining popularity shortly after this song came out in 1979.
@dennisrecklaus24692 жыл бұрын
I never thought of this song as a stand alone type of video or song, it for me represents a shared moment of millions of GenX sitting watching the count down until our time began, and it was great... at least for a few years until the baby boomers sold out as usual, Boomers grew up with Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll, and left GenX with Aids, Addiction, and corporate controlled MTV, shoving their voice altered, choreographed dancing, boy bands down our throat, programming Millennials from birth, to buy and consume the crap they say without question, people wonder why GenX is so sarcastic and dont have 2 fucks to give about anything boomers have to say, its to train GenZ to not get brainwashed by this corporate world they were born into, GenZ raised by their GenX parents and grandparents, are being raised to burn this corporate world to the ground and GenX is supplying the matches... So... yeah... this video brings back alot of memories... sorry about that...
@rileyandmike2 жыл бұрын
The very first video ever on MTV
@xtrmfc2 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed…
@DaveF.2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, we all know.
@rileyandmike2 жыл бұрын
@@DaveF. doubt everyone watching this knows, but Pat yourself on the back for being the voice of everyone
@DaveF.2 жыл бұрын
@@rileyandmike Thanks! I'll do that.
@Rwededyet2 жыл бұрын
It was also the one millionth song played on MTV. But the song is more about television killing radio programs in the 1950's. Also, there were music videos decades before MTV started.
@benjaminede61962 жыл бұрын
This was the first song played on MTV and it’s brilliant! Every time I hear it I sing it out load 🤩🤩👌👌👏👏
@keithosmond57302 жыл бұрын
An orchestrated song by the music industry? No. And the song was a hit a two years before MTV. The two members of the Buggles ended up joining Yes on their Drama album. VTR is video tape recorder - the precursor to VCRs. They used reels of tape rather than cassettes (the "C" in VCR). It's a nostalgic reference (the song starts off talking about listening to the radio in '52).
@rayraysworld2 жыл бұрын
What a song! One of the best ever. Queen nicked the idea for Radio Ga Ga
@jonstiner34242 жыл бұрын
Back in the day, you didn't really care what the people in the band really looked like, as long as the music was good. But in the video age, if you weren't beautiful, you didn't make it and your music wasn't played (as much). So, video did kill the radio star. Now were stuck with "Boy Bands" and corporate built acts.
@berniemargolis42882 жыл бұрын
Back when this came out, "back in '52" was thirty years in the past. It's the equivalent of saying, "back in '92" nowadays. Even though this duo was a one hit wonder, they scored hits as members of other groups. Trevor Horn and Geoffrey Downes were members of Yes, and Geoffrey Downes also played with '80s supergroup Asia. Trevor Horn went on to produce hits for '80s megastars like ABC and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA2 жыл бұрын
VTR = Video Tape Recorder. It became VCR shortly after. Trevor Horn was referring to television taking people away from listening to the radio. When he was a kid, more and more English people were starting to buy TV sets. This being the first MTV video was probably done in a spirit of irony.
@lavenderllamamusic2 жыл бұрын
this is one of my favorite 80s songs. When the kick comes in, those background vocals. I always sing along at the end to "You areeee a radio staarrrrr" lmao this song also has a lot of potential for a good House remix, but i'm sure that's been done plenty of times already
@petraleopold27132 жыл бұрын
omg samee, this song is masterpiece!
@thelyricologist95682 жыл бұрын
Geoffrey Downes and Trrevor Horn. Later (in 1980) they became part of Yes. They were vocalists/musicians, but also producers.
@fluffymcdeath2 жыл бұрын
Released in late 1979, reached #1 on virtually every chart in Europe in 79-80 and did pretty well in a bunch of other places too. So poppy, so story, so atmospheric, so iconic. I was 15 and living in the UK. This song made #1, and the number #1s list from that year has some huge songs in it. "Y.M.C.A." Village People "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" Ian Dury and the Blockheads "Heart of Glass" Blondie "Tragedy" Bee Gees "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor "Bright Eyes" Art Garfunkel "Sunday Girl" Blondie "Ring My Bell" Anita Ward "Are 'Friends' Electric?" Tubeway Army "I Don't Like Mondays" The Boomtown Rats "We Don't Talk Anymore" Cliff Richard "Cars" Gary Numan "Message in a Bottle" The Police "Video Killed the Radio Star" The Buggles "One Day at a Time" Lena Martell "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show "Walking on the Moon" The Police "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" Pink Floyd
@letsrock17292 жыл бұрын
Great list! I remember all of those! I turned 12 that year and was also in the UK.
@tonyarenee5312 жыл бұрын
OMG I feel so damn old I remember this being the first one in 81 on MTV!!! Crazy! When it premiered!!! but when MTV Premiered everyone was having a WATCH PARTY EVERYWHERE
@colinm31302 жыл бұрын
The band may have been a one hit wonder, but Trevor Horn went on to become one of the most prolific record producers in the business and produced countless hits.This was first video every played on MTV.
@raymo67952 жыл бұрын
Frankie goes to Hollywood, TaTu, Yes, Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones...to name a few.
@philipsmith43212 жыл бұрын
They had several chart hits in the UK.
@YogSoth Жыл бұрын
Hans Zimmer had a pretty good career too.
@MrCRayAnderson2 жыл бұрын
This is such a fun song! The clincher at the end, is that :You ARE the radio star! Most artists made the transition to videos as well as albums. A happy ending! I am really enjoying your reactions!
@DanSolo8712 жыл бұрын
Michael Nesmith of the Monkees is sort of the inventor of a Music television channel. There were many promotional videos up to that point and he pushed to get a channel to air them.
@terryspak57632 жыл бұрын
Since you're getting into Yes's 80's stuff, there is cross over with this band and Asia.
@xaspirate80602 жыл бұрын
Well worth viewing the original video -- some great underlying humor to it -- the stark contrast between the backup singers is great.
@neillenet2912 жыл бұрын
I remember being on Liberty in Fort Lauderdale while in the Navy in 1981 when this was broadcast on MTV. I was in a place called the Candy Store and this first video was followed closely by the video for the song "Fish Heads." LOL.
@guitarman84622 жыл бұрын
This was the first video ever shown on MTV . And it refered to that since MTV just came out that everyone would be watching the artist in a music instead of listening to them on the radio. VInyl records , cassette tapes were still around . Of course we all know what happened to MTV these days , it disappeared !!! 🙄🙄🙄
@completecharleston71422 жыл бұрын
For those of us who were coming of age when MTV started, this song (and many others) was a total game changer. What was interesting the first couple years, it was mainly British bands that had the concept videos, and the american bands were primarily live concert recordings (or lip synching while "playing" live)
@ravenwind10622 жыл бұрын
The song also brings in the fact that singers had to look good in addition, to sounding good. Some would argue that being attractive and looking good on camera would become more important that singing and musical talent because of MTV .
@bonsai672 жыл бұрын
This brings back memories! I love it!
@neshobanakni2 жыл бұрын
There were many different types of music videos before this, there were even special jukeboxes for them. That's where I first heard Prince - Little Red Corvette. Michael Nesmith of The Monkees was essential in the modern development, but those jukeboxes were out in the Fifties.
@auralfixxation67022 жыл бұрын
This is actually by someone from the band YES. Right after this YES released the amazing album DRAMA. You should do the YES song TEMPUS FUGIT from that album.
@KathySandru2 жыл бұрын
So prophetic. MTV "killed" a lot of artists who really weren't "video/image" friendly - mainly 1970's rock & R&B bands. I remember hearing this song during my high school senior year in 1980
@meltorme-ntor29332 жыл бұрын
It's not the "first music ideo" but yes, MTV launched by playing this song and video because it was prophetic at the time (ironically MTV no longer lays music videos). This song came out in what? 1980-81? I remember hearing and loving it when it came out. it was the beginning of the music video era.
@Sportsref132 жыл бұрын
Video Killed the Radio star was the very first video to Launch on MTV - Aug 1, 1981... followed by #2 - Pat Benatar - "You Better Run", #3 - Rod Stewart "She won't dance with me", and #4 The Who - "You Better, you Bet" ..
@rileyandmike2 жыл бұрын
All new technology kills a previous one - sometimes they make a little comeback
@davidsims86362 жыл бұрын
I remember sitting in front of the TV as a kid in the summer of 1981 waiting for MTV to come on the air and this was the very first video they played.
@stephenbrough81322 жыл бұрын
This brightened life up a bit at the time, - it was different, fresh, unusual... Trevor Horn had the knack of producing big, fresh, unusual records. I think he was a bit embarrassed by the speccy image he had in the video so it's probably just as well the video wasn't included here.
@Noelle00262 жыл бұрын
This is the song that kicked off MTV. I remember seeing this, the first video and we were hooked. The channel used to be so fun when it only played music.
@chrislegner48162 жыл бұрын
Very prophetic. Style over substance since the video age commenced.
@Trifler5002 жыл бұрын
When you're guessing when something was made, know that there were no music videos, as such, in the 70's (with a few exceptions, like Xanadu). If they had a video recording at all, it was typically on stage. Actual music videos started in the 80's. Michael Jackson was instrumental in making them mainstream.
@V7avalon2 жыл бұрын
Music videos go back decades before this song Watch Pink Floyds 💕 See Emily Play (official video)1967 The Yard Birds - For Your Love (original promotional clip) The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever Pink Floyd even made Full length motion pictures. Pink Floyd's Live In Pompeii Pink Floyd's the Wall
@talon71322 жыл бұрын
This was the very first music video broadcast over MTV way back when. Up until that point video only ever was live performances captured on film.
@charliegeorge93932 жыл бұрын
in correct. Video's were called promo's before then, but yes its the first video broadcast on MTV.
@WillisKeeper2 жыл бұрын
I don't know if you can call the Buggles a one hit wonder. They released several albums and their songs "Plastic Age" and "Elstree" appeard in the top charts also. Trevor Horn is among the most successful producers of the 80s and 90s. Think of Seal, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Tatoo, just to name a few artists that he worked with.
@damonknutson28552 жыл бұрын
This is cool. I was a (softmore?) in high school when I literally saw the daube of MTV with this song. Must have been around 1982?? And then they had dire straights money for nothing, that funny song from those guys in overalls … lol. What a time to be young with all that great music
@loristone92422 жыл бұрын
Talk about foreshadowing. ON POINT. And the 70's and 80's kids witnessed it live. Dang. Brad is right. It IS historic. In a pop culture kind of way. I'm glad I was there. Even if I didn't realize what we were witnessing.
@playbassken2 жыл бұрын
You have to think back to the days before television where the radio was the entertainment central at home and audiences would tune in to hear their favorite shows, then TV came along and all the big stars of radio quickly became forgotten. This was a well written and performed tune for its day. You should check out the live version they did as a reunion with several of the original members of the band. I think you'd dig it more, honestly.
@dewdewism2 жыл бұрын
At this time, if you wasn't played on TV or MTV, you wasn't played on the Radio. Videos determined the songs more than the music, sad to say in some ways, because it has become so Commercial now.
@ORagnar2 жыл бұрын
There were videos, as in music with song, going back a long way. The Beatles had some in the 1960s. It's hard to know when it started, since TV and movies came in a long time ago. I guess it was just a natural, slow progression. Radio really hasn't been killed, but it was a lot bigger. 1/11/22, 8:38 p.m.
@netzahuacoyotl2 жыл бұрын
There were music videos since the 60s, even short films featuring musicians back in the 30s, but only a few artists made them. MTV was the first big venue for music videos and forced artists and labels to use videos as a major part of their marketing.
@cwlindWX2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Hans Zimmer made an appearance in this video. Also, the two lead members were also members of the band 'Yes'. You may want to check out some Yes, but most of their early songs are very long. You may have heard one of their greatest hits "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (1983). That one would be a good listen. Thanks for your videos!
@ianhewitson27382 жыл бұрын
A couple of years later Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes were walking onto the Madison Square Garden stage as the lead vocalist and keyboard player respectively in Yes.
@krismarshall59502 жыл бұрын
Before MTV and music videos it dint matter as much what you looked like it was about talent once music videos got big it was more about marketing looks and how attractive the artist was. It really is sad so many amazing talented artists got passed over for not being so called sexy enough
@ronaldcardinali28092 жыл бұрын
You must watch the original video clip of this song (1980) and ur gonna love it !!
Buggles down. Now y'all need some Asia... Heat of the Moment & Only Time Will Tell.
@jaybirdderby2 жыл бұрын
From my experience. Cable tv was as life changing as the internet has been. It was preceded by some subscription tv services without commercials and they’d play music videos to fill gaps while waiting for the next scheduled movie to start. When cable came along it meant room for everything and so…MTV.
@NotBenCoultry2 жыл бұрын
I was watching MTV much of the first year it was on when I was 2 and 3 years old, so this one is ingrained in me as a favorite. (VTR is video tape recorder btw) - might be really damned cool to react to the first broadcast day, it can be found on youtube last I knew. I imagine that MTV/Viacom or whatever the parent is was contacting stars to make videos for a few years.
@Ahris222 жыл бұрын
The guy behind this song was Trevor Horn, who went on to produce not the biggest but some of the most important, influential and iconic bands of the 80's. He was instrumential in bringing the new electronic music and especially sampling into mainstream pop music. Till this day there are very few people who hasn't heard something he was involved in. This song wasn't written for MTV but yeah, the guy was a visionary so he likely predicted the video takeover. :)
@bobbithompson2792 жыл бұрын
This was the first music video played on MTV. I was 12. We planned a huge sleep over. Changed our lives.
@ashleydixon46132 жыл бұрын
Good choice for an ‘80s one hit wonder! As others here have said, it’s the first video ever played on MTV.
@smittybenzo46932 жыл бұрын
In this episode of Brad & Lex, keys unlock the door that leads Lex to a drummer drumming which triggers a domino effect causing her to fall into her "boisterous bop" as Brad showcases a moderate "side to side sway".
@ronparsons87862 жыл бұрын
I would like to subscribe to your Brad & Lex episode recaps
@neillenet2912 жыл бұрын
Aren't most of Brad's side to side sways "moderate?" :)
@rbye2 жыл бұрын
@@ronparsons8786 I would subscribe too👊🏻
@rbye2 жыл бұрын
Came to the comments looking for this 😂
@smittybenzo46932 жыл бұрын
@@neillenet291 Yes
@robertluckstedii22072 жыл бұрын
Promotional Films were used by any kind of bands back in the 50s and 60s and a lot of people credit the producers of The Monkees for creating the image and slapstick silliness of a music video as it came to be by the 80s. HUGS!!! :)
@sdev27492 жыл бұрын
there were lots of music video's in the 70's for more than a decade (even the 60's and earlier) - this song was the realisation that video was emerging as the dominant technology for future music - VERY on point at the time and I know because I was there