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Video Killed The Radio Star

The Buggles

Director
Russell Mulcahy
Year
1979
Category
Music Video
Genre
New Wave
Country
United Kingdom
Editor
Russell Mulcahy

The music video for "Video Killed the Radio Star" was written, directed, and edited by Australian Russell Mulcahy.[72] It was produced on a budget of $50,000. The video was shot in one day in South London and was edited over two days. Around 30 takes were required for shots of the actress in the tube. The tube falls over in the video, although Mulcahy claims it was not intended to be shown in the final edit. Hans Zimmer can be briefly seen wearing black playing a keyboard, and Debi Doss and Linda Jardim-Allen, who provided the female vocals for the song, are also seen. The video begins with a young girl sitting in front of a radio. A black-and-white shot of Trevor Horn singing into an early radio-era microphone is superimposed over the young girl by the radio. The radio explodes by the time of the first chorus. During the second verse, the girl is transported into the future, where she meets Horn and a silver-jumpsuited woman in a clear plastic tube. Shots of Horn and Geoff Downes are shown during the remainder of the video. (Wikipedia)