2:34 RIP to the amazing Linda Allen who sang backing vocals with Debi Doss and Linda's unforgettable solo at the end of the song. Sing for them in paradise Dear Linda.😪💔

@1thess523

Ай бұрын

I was wondering why the original back up singers weren't in some of the new performances

Best LIVE performance of this song on YT. RIP, Linda Allen. Her iconic solo near the end makes the song over the top wonderful. Trevor Horn, you are the best. Keep on playin'.

@SoulHackerOfficial

10 ай бұрын

I get chills when I hear her solo. Simply elegant

@svetcovladich9996

10 ай бұрын

@@SoulHackerOfficial absolutely..

@goodsoup6085

10 ай бұрын

Oh 😢 Rip i didnt know, its so hard to find any information on her, she has such a good voice.

@keithharrison1453

9 ай бұрын

There was a better version of this exact same 2004 performance on KZread, Full HD with better sound. It looks like that has been taken down. What a shame. Perhaps Trevor can arrange for a copy to replace this version. Not knocking the content or performances one bit, I'm just saying there is a better reproduction of this same material. That one was the best example, and was an absolute delight to listen to via good headphones.

@jk9554

9 ай бұрын

@@keithharrison1453 I agree. I'm not 100% sure if we think of the same version, but in this one here, the end has been cut. In the one I was thinking about, Trevor was thanking his band members and the original background singers at the end. In my opinion, that's part of the performance, and especially part of the emotion of that performance and should have been kept. Like @keithharrison1453, I'm not here to complain - it was a great performance, and I'm glad we live in a time in which recordings like this can easily be found on youtube, but it's a bit of a shame when not all of it is "preserved".

Not many songs out there will ever be as immortal as this one.

@scottc7354

11 ай бұрын

Money for nothin’

@kevinbirge2130

11 ай бұрын

Probably in the top 5 iconic songs for Gen X. I watched Night Flight religiously hoping for Buggles.

@James_Looked

11 ай бұрын

Walk of life

@jeffreylawrence6928

8 ай бұрын

True…

@79jcandy

3 ай бұрын

1st MTV song

Nostalgic sounds of better times. RIP Linda Allen, she had a beautiful voice.

@gordonscott528

5 күн бұрын

Agree 100%

It's rare to have a live performance hit so close to the recorded one. Amazing.

@turokforever007

8 ай бұрын

1979

@hoihoi9866

8 ай бұрын

Yes close but it's too fast I think

@ThePwig

8 ай бұрын

@@hoihoi9866 I think this one is better than the original but to each his own

@ivanoffw

6 ай бұрын

I completely agree, usually the bands like to change how they sing, or some of the instruments, but this one is so close to the radio/video version, and it's not lip synced, almost perfect.

@andrew097

22 күн бұрын

Its better, the little variations are really adding to it. Consummate musicians at the pointy end of their craft. Just being fantastic.

44 years on and this song still sends shivers down my spine, particularly Linda's solo vocal. True future nostalgia.

@tommoore6140

Ай бұрын

Takes me back, beautiful memories

It's 2023 and this song still sounds futuristic to me.

@TheChipmunk2008

14 күн бұрын

it ,makes me cry in 2024

Perfect pitch, perfect performance, perfect song. Thank you, Trevor, for your gift to us. 💕

@RundTofu

2 ай бұрын

love this live version than the original one

A stunningly beautiful piece of music! RIP Linda Allen - the voice of an angel 🙏

I not only love how this is as good as the original studio recording, but Linda Allen's voice is just immaculate after all of these years (RIP), and the drummer. The guy is really enjoying his time out there and getting into it. I totally loved this performance.

@kurtlewis4095

18 күн бұрын

The keyboard player is the original also. Loved this song for many many years

This took me back, through the years and tears, to the first time I heard the song. On my way home from school in 1979, on the school bus. I refused to get off at my stop and rode until the song was over and walk from there. I’ve never been able to explain why it resonated in me the way it did, but it did, and still does.

@wadadlioutlaw357

Ай бұрын

This is real

First Music Video on MTV in 1981 .... and 42 yrs later STILL an Anthem across time. One of those songs that defines an Era. Superb

Trevor Horn is SO underrated. Fantastic producer and writer.

@odetteswann7694

5 ай бұрын

Geoff Downes is even more underrated.

@VinceAlanDave

3 ай бұрын

He is not!

Trevor Horn.... you and Linda Allen will live on in our hearts ....forever.... you are immortal, thank you for your music 🙂

Best live version ever, drummer Paul Robinson is brilliant on this live set. RIP Linda Allen, Debbie Doss a legend too.

@travcollier

11 ай бұрын

Everyone on the stage is a world-class musician. Trevor Horn's real superpower is somehow being friends (at least professionally) and bringing together such amazing folks. Anne Dudley is always amazing too. Though, you know, Hans Zimmer was involved with the original version.

@mjohncole77

8 ай бұрын

Is Linda the pretty brunette on the right? She had curly hair in the 1979 version.

@mooncat.787

7 ай бұрын

​@@mjohncole77Yes.

@mooncat.787

7 ай бұрын

​@@travcollierOn point comment.

@mcallisterk

5 ай бұрын

Well said my friend they were brilliant

This song encapsulated an entire era of music. Ironic that it was the first video that MTV played because the platform didn't evolve for the better than how it started. This set the bar very high.

BOrn in 74 in Morristown NJ, raised in Sparta, and God Almighty, I remember this! 😊

I love how it sounds futuristic even 40 years later, but when you listen to the piano and strings underneath it's classical music. ❤

I was alive to watch the start of MTV, and so appropriate this was the first video. Trevor Horn is not only phenomenal as a producer, he is timeless.

When I was young, Trevor Horn signature on any song was a quality seal. There was no exception. Kudos master!

I'm home sitting on a metal folding chair 💺. I sit here and listening to this incredible song the rich sounds this producer and singer created make me cry. Cry for a time where things were much more simple and less complicated. In music and in the World 🌎. I miss those time's I pray they return to take me away to that place again. With tears in my eye's and rain hitting the window. I fear that we can't return to better day's. So I will continue to cherish the thoughts that consume me. I love you magical 80s 90s 20s..

Honestly, when she starts singing at 2:22, my heart moves.

@petraleopold2713

6 ай бұрын

ikr, so powerful🔥

@bluesailormercury

5 ай бұрын

I get chills. My favorite part of the video! I also love her vocalization at 1:03

@petraleopold2713

5 ай бұрын

@@bluesailormercury same😊

@gregorypaulwatson1088

3 ай бұрын

100% agree she’s fabulous

I was only 13 when I first heard this and thought it was the best thing I have ever heard up to that point. Now I'm 56 and still think of this song very fondly and miss those days what an era to grow up in !

Every kid in the neighborhood went to "Billy's" house to see the World Premiere of MTV...and with this song, our teenage world was changed forever. Thank you for bringing the memories back!

When I was a lad, I would stay awake and listen to you on my transmitter. You were my first rock group. You were the first one. What a fantastic transition in music for me. Thank you, still adore this tune

I absolutely bloody love this song even after all these years 😳❤️❤️

Ive watched this over and over again. It really is that good.

This is one of the perfect pop songs in my entire memory, and I'm a music collector. First started collecting LPs in 1980, then CD's, so have over 5,000 albums in my collection. Video Killed the Radio Star is one of my favs. It has all the ingredients of great pop -- killer beat, melody, pathos, and a chorus that penetrates into your brain like all great ear candy does.

@TheAtticradio

10 ай бұрын

Amazing PoP … groundbreaking

@pchdavis

10 ай бұрын

Exactly! The chorus is like ear candy!

Every time I watch this, tears in my eyes. Just so good, so well written, amazingly performed, and makes me just a little melancholy. What a ride.

I was born 71, and this brought a tear to my eyes. This song was so iconic I think everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard It. Thank you for the upload.

@simonhill2797

6 күн бұрын

Im 1971 … i remember being in my dads Datsun parked outside Woolworths and it was on the radio 😮😮😂😂

One of the best songs ever created. It can be played a hundred times and you never get sick of it.

What a phenomenal performance…sounds so much like the original…such amazing talent. Trevor Horn, you are a living LEGEND ✨✨

@carlflaherty2215

10 ай бұрын

I actually like it better than the original recording.

This Lady at 2:22 is the damned hell of a background voice. Just OUTSTANDING!

@Dov_ben-Maccabee

6 ай бұрын

RIP Linda Allen - may G-d rest you gently.

@NoGAD-vq2kh

6 ай бұрын

@@Dov_ben-Maccabee I couldn't know that! I stand by what I said - but I would use other expressions! Kind regards

My sweet lord what a live performance...magical

Man I still remember when this awesome song first hit the radio waves! Way back in June 1979! I was living in Puerto Rico at the time! Growing up as a young kid I was 16 years old! And it became one of my favorite tune then and still my favorite today! I love the Buggles! “The age of plastic”👌😎👍

Great song, makes me happy and sad at the same time. Brilliant live performances, considering the passage of time.

@carlflaherty2215

10 ай бұрын

They even got Debbie Doss and Linda Allen!

@leethomas255

10 ай бұрын

I know exactly what you mean, I wish I could go back to when I 1st heard it, in the 70's ☺😪😪

What an amazing performance. And keeping the backing vocalists instead of replacing them it does give it a beautiful touch

This has got to be one of my favourite live performances ever. You guys completely nailed it.

まさに、色褪せない名曲。

Until I looked it up just now I would have sworn the bass was done on a bass machine. To see Trevor Horn do it live is amazing. What a performance!

There was an even better version of this 2004 performance on KZread, the exact same performance, but in Full HD and with even better sound reproduction. That seems to have been taken down.

@geraldcecil7644

8 ай бұрын

And in it Trevor had a nice call out to those amazing ladies and the band, all cut from this upload. Why?

@johnharbaugh9471

8 ай бұрын

I prefer the other (deleted) video where Trevor, named co writers, musicians and back up singers. I would encourage this video be edited to a longer format.

@keithharrison1453

8 ай бұрын

I agree the longer version was good, but the main point is that the audio quality at HD was superior too. Of all the music videos here, that was one of the best, that I would regularly listen to because it was superb, especially through a good headset.@@johnharbaugh9471

@ianb9729

5 ай бұрын

And there was me thinking the same

@anthony-fv8ez

5 ай бұрын

They took it done😕

Debbie's and Linda's amazing vocals. rest in peace, you had the voice of an angel. all my love.

The piano and backing vocals. Just beautiful. ❤

Where did all those years go?... It was only yesterday that I was cruising down the coast listening to this, Driver's Seat and Saucilito Summer Night... woke up this morning and it's 40 years later. I want a do-over!

@johnkerwin9567

Ай бұрын

Driver's Seat and Sausalito SummerNight are awesome songs--two of my favorites too!

I never get tired of hearing this song, and I love the piano solo version too!

This song is so catchy… so well written and stands the test of time. What a lovely live performance by everyone. Time for part two Mr.Horn!!!! “Digital killed the video star”

Linda Allen we'll never forget you... I heard an angel's voice. The end of the song with piano and clarinet is pure genius

The anthem of the best decade ever. 80s forever!

I just love this song.

Fantastic version of this timeless classic. The arrangement was beautiful.

One of the best pop songs of the 20th century! An iconic classic!

It was great that you got Debbie Doss and Linda Allan from the actual VKTRS video to sing live with you. So sad to hear of Linda's passing in 2015. She had a wonderful voice.

@carlflaherty2215

10 ай бұрын

Because they were Buggles too.

@crazy_irish316

10 ай бұрын

It was their song, trevor may be the lead singer but together they where the buggles. Without Debbie and linda this song wouldn’t be VKTRS

@01clifford

6 ай бұрын

❤

Still loving it in June 2023

Am i the only 15 year old that absolutely adores this song😂😂??

The second verse, when the syncopating synth and backing vocal comes in: that never fails to send thrills down my spine, and Linda Allen's vocal. Immortality in a song.

best live performance ever..very talented producer ..love it

Love the end with the strings and piano

I remember hearing this song on the radio first in 1979. Then on M TV! I great to hear it again.

音楽は、世界を繋ぐとは、このことですな…本当に大好きですこの曲🥰

How is this even better than the studio version??

2:20 goosebumps 💛💙💛

This is what one would call the performance of record for Video Killed RS. Amazing live performance. So glad Trevor and crew put in the time to do it.

Thank you Mr.Horn for you and your band mates letting your music become part of the world's musical soundtrack.

Buggles fan from the first time i heard a song from this band. I was a DJ at a pirate station in The Netherlands that time. Brings back great memories

今聞いても色褪せないのが良い

Vice city song,this take me back. Thanks Trev you legend.😊

yes this ending its magical... like in a dream... crying ending of happiness... love all the formats of this song made

MTV's first. That will never be taken away! The perfect pop song. I hope Trevor lives to 120.

Wow, breathtaking. All the performers at the very top of their game. Superb.

I Thank you Trevor

Even though this Timeless classic came in the late 70's I grew up in the 80's Listening to this and I'm Grateful for Being Gen'X

Best. To an era long gone which we could sure use today. Heal the world.

Looking forward to hearing Trevor play this again at Cropredy in August - Fairport Convention can certainly pick 'em!

One one my favorite 80’s song.

@mikeroberts942

8 ай бұрын

It was actually a 70s song just, it was released towards the end of 79

What a lineup -- a musician's musician's murderers row. Superb arrangement -- and those three bass chords during the short breakdown 🤩

@davidferrara1105

9 ай бұрын

Yeah he's playing some nice voicings in that spot

pictures came and broke your heart

This song was the very first music video ever played on MTV August 1, 1981. Brings back many fun memories.

When everything was far more easy than today. You heard a song and all problems seemed to dissapear.

Pictures came and broke your heart. This rendition is fabulous!

The first single i ever bought.

This song is one of all time favourites from the 80's so true just look where music has come so far Trevor horn was a prophet his words came true 😄😄😄😄😄😄jx

Simply amazing Trevor 🎉❤

RIP Linda, fabulous solo

Always loved Horns bass line...

When I listened to it for the first time, I couldn't believe it was released before I was born. Your song will resonate in my heart forever. Arigato from 🇯🇵🤗

The song that gave birth to MTV... I absolutely love this song. Such brilliance

YES, they included the outro! So sublime.

I discovered this live version a few months ago and have come back to watch it a number of times. Just awesome, especially the backing vocals.

I like Linda's chorus because it's powerful. Thank you

@CC-Rider

3 ай бұрын

Linda was awesome. RIP

@hernanpicco4816

3 ай бұрын

Me too

This is so great. I can't get enough of this. Every Sunday on my way home from food shopping I have to listen to this tune. You guys absolutely knocked it out of the park with this live performance. The songs from my youth are special.

For some reason I watch this every night.

In my time The best

This is fantastic! I've still got the single from 1979..this performance is timeless!!

How hard it is to believe so much time has passed.

@SoggyTissue I was in 71’ too this song is one of my favorites awesome live

The talent is just unbelievable it brings back 40 years of memories

One of the best songs of all time.

Still smashing it with their terrific voices - not impaired at all by the passage of time! A treasure!

Brings back my home ,youth and many nights out ..alas we all age but music makes us younger

Magnificent