Video Killed the Radio Star es una canción grabada por el grupo británico The Buggles que forma parte del álbum The Age of Plastic lanzado en 1979. Para muchos es un clasico de la musica New Wave. La canción destaca principalmente por su videoclip, dirigido por Russell Mulcahy, ya que fue el primer vídeo emitido por la cadena estadounidense MTV el 1 de agosto de 1981. El motivo para la elección parece bastante claro. Tanto la letra de la canción como las imágenes del vídeo, con radios explotando, hacen referencia a una vieja estrella de la radio que ve como sus días de gloria acaban debido a la proliferación del vídeo. La canción fue escrita por Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes y Bruce Woolley y alcanzó el número uno en el Reino Unido en 1979.

@MASmusik100

8 жыл бұрын

+manuel fernandez ¡Excelente información, gracias! ¡Saludos!

@manuelfernandez6441

8 жыл бұрын

***** Gracias amigo.Buenas noches

@denisecanda8679

8 жыл бұрын

+manuel fernandez a quien le interensa

@noevalenciabarrera6299

8 жыл бұрын

Algún dia querras que alguien te recuerde algo de tu juventud porque por tu comentario deduzco que eres una persona joven,dejanos ser si?

@demosthenes5980

7 жыл бұрын

KZread mató a las estrellas de MTV. Hoy MTV es algo tan obsoleto como las estrellas de radio lo eran en los 90s.

this was the first music video played on MTV, I remember how choked up I felt with the feeling that Pandora's box has just been opened

I saw this video when it launched MTV in 1981. Damn I'm old.

@LuciferXFallen290

7 жыл бұрын

Shelley Ruble what took mtv so long? this dates back to 1979

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

6 жыл бұрын

Shelley Ruble → "...seems a thousand centuries ago." -- APOCALYPSE NOW [1979]

@warbunny13203

6 жыл бұрын

Shelley Ruble hell i remember when tv still had the 2 turn nobs to change the channels, after you got up off the floor and walked TO the tv......i also vegly remember telephones party lines🤔🤔😲😲😁😁😧😧🇺🇸

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

6 жыл бұрын

warbunny13203 → I remember BOTH, and I am "only" 56 years old {in 2017}....

@josecl41

2 ай бұрын

😂 Me too.

1979, video killed the radio star. 2009, Netflix killed the blockbuster store.

@danielmarquis5258

8 жыл бұрын

You are SO right on that one.

@Dinoboy-mw7er

8 жыл бұрын

Radio shack

@MasonStrand

7 жыл бұрын

Except blockbuster getting killed didn't kill off CDs. CDs are... Everywhere! And digital video! And well.. Radio stars, too! So no one is dead- not yet, at least. Though VTR and VCR are pretty much gone except for collector items... so I guess it's just a technology change.

@tjshoniregun8255

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@arnoldjack7956

7 жыл бұрын

Andrew Ramsey and REDBOX

Man that was such a moment...the first ever video on MTV. I was hooked. This song still brings back the memory of my face glued to the TV when MTV was born.

@duchesslustmoontype11a37

7 жыл бұрын

MontagZoso me too !! August 1 1981

@MontagZoso

7 жыл бұрын

Very glad we were there for it!

The first music video ever aired on MTV on August 1, 1981 at 12:01am Eastern time!

@thejasonlundgren

8 жыл бұрын

Numerous sources. I knew that since I was 9 years when MTV was in its 10th year on the air.

@kenhoughton2594

8 жыл бұрын

+Jason Lundgren I am sadly old enough to have seen that moment myself and remember thinking that this was the trippiest thing I had ever seen.

@johnnguyen270

8 жыл бұрын

+Jason Lundgren And to think they did MUSIC VIDEOS 24 HOURS DAILY..... what happened?! Can someone bring me back to the 80's??!! PLEASE!

@thejasonlundgren

8 жыл бұрын

I know right. They haven't done that format in over 30 years!

@Creech786

8 жыл бұрын

+Jason Lundgren It was also the millionth video played on MTV. I remember watching the countdown.

MTV is pure nostalgia! I remember the first time this came out. MTV is not the same anymore. It's no longer fun to watch.

probably one of the greatest music videos ever, the science fiction imagery, the winged girl in the tube, the radios exploding, I love it all, and trevor's glasses rule too.

2:56 love that bass hit and then you see them as they jam an outro. Memories!

One of about a half dozen songs that changed the 1980's and music in general.

@LuciferXFallen290

7 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Lyons it was 1979 and btw their popularity plummeted in the early 80s due to lack of good hits. only made two good hits which reached the charts. The second was living in the plastic age.

Back then I didn't really understand 'Video killed the Radio Star', but the reality hit me for quite a while now.

When you realize that music back then is way better than most of the music today

@arempy5836

8 жыл бұрын

Bern in le wrong generation are ya?

@MacintoshPlus1MB

8 жыл бұрын

+Kennedy Bieber When you realize that this song is partially responsible for the bad pop music today

@WaveGazer

7 жыл бұрын

You have no way of knowing that.

@richardturner6873

7 жыл бұрын

Yes definitely!!!!

@angelinamarkle2312

7 жыл бұрын

Kennedy Bieber yes back then it was good know it's just not the best music

que buen tema musical, y esta subtitulado, de los mejores, excelente trabajo, saludos desde LIMA - PERU muchas gracias!

@MASmusik100

9 жыл бұрын

EL AMIGO KYLE ¡Muchas gracias a ti!!, saludos desde España.

@Scripturegirl.

9 жыл бұрын

Si..greeting's from Alabama. (U.S.A.).

Al final la realidad es que a pesar de toda la tecnologia, que es un gigante que avanza a grandes pasos dejandolo todo obsoleto, la radio sigue susbsistiendo porque es un medio de comunicacion insustituible. Hay canciones que nunca han dejado de gustarme, y esta es una de ellas, aun es capaz de ponerme el vello de punta.

6 жыл бұрын

Eso es verdad. Pero la canción acierta desde su título. Las estrellas que nacían en la radio ya no existen, ahora son prefabricadas y cuando suenan en las emisoras es porque ya han sido moldeadas en vídeo.

im 13 probably heard this when i was 3-4 insane how I remember it and still love it will always be one of my favorites

I still remember this song,it was amazing.

El primer video de MTV !!!!!!

Always loved this song.

Loved this song so much as a kid.

Yes remembering this song as it was just yesterday!! Nice!!

Este fue el primer vídeo musical que se emitió en el canal MTV... cuando era bueno y se dedicaba a pasar buena música.

Golden age of the music

I remember watching this video when mtv first came on tv.

@duchesslustmoontype11a37

7 жыл бұрын

RobJG1976 this was the very first video that ever premiered on MTV on August 1, 1981 at 10 PM that night I have a VCR at the time and I would tape it while I was at school then watch it in the evenings after this song the next video was from the police and then Pat Benatar I will never forget that night

@bilbo2shire

7 жыл бұрын

If You recall, what did Pat Benatar sing? The last few months of 1981 I was going through "Courting" with my first wife in Barstow, California and she absolutely loved the album 'In the heat of the night" by Pat Benatar. GOD BLESS!!!

@duchesslustmoontype11a37

7 жыл бұрын

You'd better run is the song and video that came on after video killed the radio star

@duchesslustmoontype11a37

7 жыл бұрын

Alan Hunter was so dam nervous that night !! Because it was being broadcast live of course the rest of the VJs did an awesome job

@bilbo2shire

7 жыл бұрын

Thank You!!

Remember, 1989 is as deep into the past in 2016 as 1952 was in 1979.

@coffycup75

7 жыл бұрын

Oh don't even tell me that, I was in high school in 1989!! Lol.

@clod8

7 жыл бұрын

So true but 1952 really was a very different world. Not that I was alive, I was born in 1970 but I remember 1979 seemed very different from 1975. 1979 had popular techno music, sleek styles, very "modern", 1975 was still hippyish and earthy tones. As far as I'm concerned, it's the same era as we are now, we just have more and better stuff but the vibe is the same-ish. Postmodernism I guess you'd call it.

@jamesedwards.1069

7 жыл бұрын

It's funny how social perspective can shift. My mother used to turn her nose up at really old movies from the 1930's when they were on tv back in the 1960's. Now the same movies are, like, beloved classics. Oldies used to be moldy, but now they're often as precious as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

@douglashall6326

7 жыл бұрын

I'm always amazed at how much of what we consider to be part of the 1980s came into being in the late 1970s. Digital sound came into being with DASH (the first digital audio format) in 1976 (and was first used for Star Wars). The first walk-man was introduced in 1979. Cable television started with HBO. The first home video recorders came out in 1978. The first test flights of the space shuttle took place in 1976. Also, Pong was the first video game in 1976. Our modern world came into being.

@MilitantAntiTheist

7 жыл бұрын

Douglas Hall Actually, the first Betamax machines were released in 1975. There's a KZreadr named Ray Glasser who was a big Betamax enthusiast and has uploaded a large number of home videos filmed on videotape from 1976 onwards. Pong came out in 1972 and the home system was released by Atari in 1975.

KZread killed the MTV star.... I love both :D

What a great era in music.

I ❤this year song

Really beautiful track :')

Fun fact: dude playing the keyboards, all in black at the 3 min mark....that's Hans Zimmer!!

@greghoppe3973

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's Hans Zimmer but he;s only in the video. Geoffrey Downed played all of the keyboards on the recording.

TEMAZO DE AÑORANZA CUANDO EL VIDEO MATO LA RADIO ¡ PERO OH MARAVILLOSA SORPRESA LA RADIO NO MURIO SIGUE VIVITA Y COLEANDO¡

@rogerherrera2835

4 ай бұрын

Musica ahora 😂😂😂 puff usted aqui porque quiere escuchar musica...no El ruido de ahora

Honestly, one of the greatest songs ever. Not only was it a prediction but it was historic as the first video played on MTV. I watched the launch of MTV and even then I knew it would be a game changer! I really wish MTV was still MTV. Hey MTV, I want my MTV!!!!!!! NOt that game show, reality crap...MUSIC TELEVISION. Or as one of the ads said, "MTv, Blah, Blah, Teleblah"

Today, Aug. 1st 2015. MTV 34 years old. Aug. 1st 1981, this was the first video played.

I remember August 1, 1981 midnight MTV was born Mark Goodman , said ladies and gentlemen welcome to a whole new era in music boy was he right I had a VCR at the time and taped MTV all day while I was at school starting in eighth grade cannot get enough of it the 80s those lazy crazy Dazzling days and nights how wonderful they were !!!

It's weird because at the time they thought this was revolutionary so do we now it's sad cuz it's a time that was and never will be again

Happy birthday MTV

This old era... Being born in the nineties, I missed so much change, but was able to see the last vestiges before the new world began. I wonder just how much the newer generations have missed being able to reflect upon and grow from. The more I learn about the recent past, the more I understand culture- and find myself so influenced, too. I imagine many who existed in those times have experienced numerous thoughts that people like myself rarely touch upon.

@Themanwhocameback2

8 жыл бұрын

+Jifftastic Ghozt You are quite wise. Young people of today are almost living a "half life" compared to those of my generation who grew up in the 70's and 80's.

@steveespinola7652

6 жыл бұрын

Hi I was a kid in the 80's add so I experienced everything the 80's had good music good TV shows and good cartoons and of course other stuff that happened.

GTA vice city brought me here. I wasn't even born for another 7 years after this came out.

What a way to kick off the 1980s!

@johnnguyen270

8 жыл бұрын

MTV brought me here!!!!

@Thoralmir

8 жыл бұрын

In terms of music, this video started the 80's, and David Hasselhoff singing "I've Been Lookin' For Freedom" atop the Berlin Wall on New Year's Eve '89 was what ended it off.

@LuciferXFallen290

7 жыл бұрын

Thoralmir despite the song being from 1979

@psychedeliccarrie5921

6 жыл бұрын

Well you had to at least exist in 1979 to start off the 80's.

@puppymcpupsters

6 жыл бұрын

Thoralmir 1979 not the 1980's

Que recuerdos y que buena musica. 😊

So so love to hear Video Killed The Radio Star..Remember when MTV used to air Videos?

Clever melody. Harkens my emotions back to a simpler time.

Dance dance revolution... 😅🤘🏻🤘🏻

@ilovethe80sman7

7 жыл бұрын

jade dragon Yessss!

@arch4ngel

7 жыл бұрын

NO! Just dance for LIFE

@rafaelmartinez4970

7 жыл бұрын

Yes TSTpro

Happy 35 birthday mtv. Love this video but I was born three years later after this debute on MTV

KZread killed the MTV star... :D

@ManuelVelizz

9 жыл бұрын

moreneta Haha, yes, offcourse.

@jademm

8 жыл бұрын

moreneta MTV needed to die a long time ago. It no longer serves its original purpose. Good riddance to spoiled ideas.

@teaganchandler1965

8 жыл бұрын

+jademm noooooooooooooooooooooo i love mtv noooooooooo pls plsssss but but their equel im sad now :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

@stevegraham5936

8 жыл бұрын

+moreneta MTV killed the MTV star

@dragonraygun3718

8 жыл бұрын

No. MTV killed itself with reality TV series they decided to play 24/7. Instead of music videos. KZread was the great alternative.

I liked when he said "Put the blame on VTR"

@crazyman8472

8 жыл бұрын

That's "VCR". :)

@archer-1203

7 жыл бұрын

I thought he was saying vcr too, but he's saying vtr.

@bruceramsey5489

7 жыл бұрын

Back in the 50's they were called VTR. They were black and white and lousy.

I remember in Atlanta before MTV started in 81' we watched video's on show called Night tracks. My sister and I watched the debut of MTV this was the first song they ever played.

@almostfm

6 жыл бұрын

That was a really common thing pre-MTV. A lot of times they'd hire a local DJ to host, and it was really radio with pictures. SCTV did a great send-up of the phenomenon with "The Gerry Todd Show", where he inevitably played videos from a guy named Tom Monroe, who did easy listening covers of popular songs (think Richard Cheese, but in 1980). kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4mH07GIlpm4hbA.html is one, which is even funnier if you remember the original done by the Vapors.

Siempre quise saber de esa música el nombre, la letra y hoy la encontré, recuerdo de niño cuando sonaba en la radio... Excelente.

Retro and Futuristic and kind of Alternate Universe ish , this is still great ! It is also a masterclass in how to play a bass. !

GRACIAS POR TU COMENTARIO MANUEL, .......... YO VI POR PRIMERA VEZ ESTE TEMA EN EL PROGRAMA DE TELEVISION -DISCO CLUB DE GERARDO MANUEL EN PERU- ALLA POR 1980 O 1981.... ME TRAE RECUERDOS.

Un clásico

@richardturner6873

7 жыл бұрын

I love this song. My wife and I were only married 2 years when we saw this on MTV.

The one that started it all! :)

@Dinoboy-mw7er

8 жыл бұрын

It was the first mtv video right

@crazyman8472

8 жыл бұрын

Dino boy1238 Yep! Good times... that was back when MTV actually showed (gasp!) music videos! :)

@Dinoboy-mw7er

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@shortaybrown

7 жыл бұрын

No no KZread is the video star

A hidden gem, so so long time since last time i heard this

Glad to see this here! I remember when MTV played music!

Excelent !! Great !Wonderful!!

Gracias buenos recuerdos.

3 a.m on the road to Johnston RI From SBC in Branford after my Saturday night bouncer gig.

I remember this as the first video the day MTV first started

I love this song as well

So wonderful; 1979.

I'm glad I found this again, I loved it when it came out and now its logged never to be lost again.

Somebody tell me why it is so hard to find a good non subtitled version of this music video?

@MASmusik100

7 жыл бұрын

You´re right. I couldn´t find the original video in KZread. This is the official video without subtitles: vimeo.com/92792215 I hope you like it. Regards!

@525Lines

7 жыл бұрын

I'd be happy to PAY for the song but none of the pay services offer the videos.

@KrazeeClark

7 жыл бұрын

Because, the world is a vampire sent to drain. :((

@montyziebell1077

7 жыл бұрын

Good version on dailymotion

@ddsr86

7 жыл бұрын

There used to be one idk what happened to iy

it is a beautiful music

Terrific

Indeed i never thought i would say this, music was better back then, i was born in 1978

Un excelente éxito

thanks john i watched mtv debut and this was the video shown

Orch Pop gem! Beautiful song!

At :43 you can see arguably one of the greatest film composers of all time: Hans Zimmer. It blows my mind that he was in the first music video on MTV...

I'm just here to see Hans Zimmer Rock out on them keys :)

@kourii

6 жыл бұрын

+griffin324 he doesn't, but he is in the music video

@greghoppe3973

6 жыл бұрын

Hans Zimmer is in the video but didn't play on the recording. Geoffrey Downes played all of the keyboard parts on the studio recording.

@justinreed6098

6 жыл бұрын

AND WE DANCE. VLOGS I like watching Trevor Horn on that bass. Underrated bassist

@coolcat6303

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's him. I just read his bio recently & it mentioned he was in this. I couldn't believe it! I guess it shouldn't surprise me though. Several film composers got their start doing pop music (Danny Elfman, Trevor Rabin, etc) I also just bought his "Live in Prague" concert blu-ray and it definitely had a major rock concert vibe about it. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it yet.

Reality shows killed the video star!!

@srslydoatm9251

8 жыл бұрын

Hell yes they dis

@srslydoatm9251

8 жыл бұрын

+Kawaii “Jolyne Kujo” Potato *Did. sorry..

@xmoore5659

8 жыл бұрын

Naw, that title goes to the internet.

Muy buena rola!.

Now this is the video I remember seeing and it's still a great video.

La canción es un temazo

When I listen to this I feel like a robot

I love this song wen I was 4 years old i yost to lessen to it

Just dance!

pues yo me quedo con mi pantera 590, radio exitos y... "OIGO RADIO CAPITAL"...... saludos desde mexico

@MASmusik100

9 жыл бұрын

supergacela Saludos desde España.

The first video shown on mtv i love it

Trevor and his glasses are adorable!

Good!!!

It all happened this time 34 years ago as I write this.

August 1 ,1981 this was the first music video .I was born three year's later

Saludos Tripulacion Apollo especialmente a Collins, Neil y Admostrong. Fueron todas unas estrellas de radio hasta que la video los mató, pero no se preocupen tienen una estrella en Hollywood.

MTV will be 35 old in summer!!!!

good music of my old time when I were yuong.........................

this was the first video shown on mtv 1981

The first video of MTV .... :)

First Video on MTV . ;)

Buena traducción!

the first video ever shown on MTV and the start of the golden age of great music and clever music videos through til the 1990s til MTV began it's rapid fall towards suck-dom til now where the channel is unwatchable with it's horrible music, and reality shows. Thanks for watching.

this was the first music video on MTV date August 1, 1981 .

Que fuerte

Me gusta

I was a month old when this made its debut .

I'm a hunter hits the time of real music!

the first song on MTV back in 1981

maravilhoso !

@Scripturegirl.

9 жыл бұрын

English PLEZE.?.

@mayanation

9 жыл бұрын

***** I love your reply.

I love this song

@MASmusik100

8 жыл бұрын

+David H Gracias, Saludos David :)

@upmperthay564

8 жыл бұрын

Ditto!! :-)

Any other teenagers out there like this song?

@GrotesqueIy

8 жыл бұрын

I'm 19 and love this song

@mrkitten3942

8 жыл бұрын

+cfanellidesign yep

@teaganchandler1965

8 жыл бұрын

im not a teen but i dont like it i love it my dad toke me in to the world of the 80s

@cuterthanyou

8 жыл бұрын

yes

@xeno8334

8 жыл бұрын

im 15 and i love this because of my dad

@ 2:56 and then we see the "band". A guy rockng out hard on a bass, a guy playing TWO keyboards at once and a guy playing a single keyboard. Wow.

@MrAitraining

7 жыл бұрын

yeah. I always liked that bass hit too. Cool outro.