The Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star
The video for the Buggles' classic one-shot, about how the rise of television (and, by extension, music videos) hurt the careers of those performers whose looks would not translate well to the new medium.
- Runtime
- 4m
- Released
- 1979
- Country
- United Kingdom
Details
Release year: 1979
Storyline
The video for the Buggles' classic one-shot, about how the rise of television (and, by extension, music videos) hurt the careers of those performers whose looks would not translate well to the new medium.
Top credits
The Buggles — The Buggles- Debi Doss — Debi Doss
Geoff Downes — Geoff Downes
Virginia Hey — Virginia Hey
Did you know
• This was the very first video ever shown on Music Television (MTV) when the television channel launched on August 1, 1981.
• Australian model and aspiring actress Virginia Hey played the woman who is trapped in the perspex tube in the video. Director Russell Mulcahy (also an Australian) already knew her and hired her to play the role as he knew she was struggling to find employment in London at the time. She would go on to be a familiar actress on Australian TV and films in the 1980s and 90s.
• Virginia Hey's debut.
User reviews
Colourful and catchy
Some thoughts on this important classic
The Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star is still important as the music short that launched MTV
Technical specs
- Color
- Color
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