Your grandparents? OMG, I didn't realize I was that old🤦♂️😂 Graduated High School in '81 and was living on my own with no parents. I remember when MTV first came out. Good times....damn good times!
They didn't need computers to manufacture artists 70 years ago. Record companies have been doing it since the beginning. The Monkeys might be the most famous. Then came Partridge Family, The Archies, The Bay City Rollers, Menudo, and countless others. You only needed to look and sound good.
Trevor Horn is a genius. There would be no 1980's Britain without him: Buggles, ABC, Yes, Art of Noise, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, Propaganda, Pet Shop Boys
Judging from the above listed line-up, you've been viewing 25 YEARS OF POP, The Prince's Trust Concert from 2004, haven't you? Good taste in music, sir!
My bestie and I sat and watched the clock countdown to the moon man lift off, and watched in awe as The Buggles video launched. Our lives were changed forever.
@@magiccheeseball I'd be interested if they went back and pulled up old alternative videos and based an award on the popularity of them now. Tool had some great ones. So many others did, as well.
@@Ir0nMa1d3n yeah but they have nothing to do with music for years so why do they do music awards? It's like if discovery channel did music awards It's silly
There was an Asia meet and greet at a bar close to me...that nobody heard about...and I ended up eating dinner with Geoff Downs...we talked about this stuff for about an hour...we had wings...it was 25 cent wing night...
First female artist: Pat Benatar First guitarist: Neal Giraldo You Better Run is an infinitely better song than Video Killed The Radio Star, IMO. I saw an interview with Pat Benatar a few months ago where she talked about how appearing on MTV basically ended any anonymity. Before MTV, musicians were pretty unknown outside their immediate fan base. With MTV, EVERYONE knew who you were.
I was surprised how good of a keyboardist Geoff was. I told this to my friend, The band Asia was going to be the first concert for MTV yet their lead singer John Wetton left the band. We are all Prog musicians and we are friendly to each other. I told Greg Lake of Emerson Lake and Palmer fill in and get the exposure you deserve. He had two weeks to learn the material and caught a cold yet they were great. Geoff had two firsts with MTV
I rushed home from school. I turned on the tv waiting as the static buzzed. Then, the logo ran on the screen, I turned up the volume, and now I have heard this song 10,000 times.
I saw this song live in I =believe 2011, when Asia opened for YES, and Geoff Downes introduced the song by saying his hands were the first thing anyone saw when MTV began. A few years later Downes joined YES as their keyboardist.
Remember when THRILLER first appeared - ? That video set the BAR. It was the first video to cost a MILLION dollars (If I remember right). this was when the average Pro Video ran around 25 Grand. Or LESS. They played that thing round the clock almost. It played probably twice an hour 24 - 7. It was GROUND BREAKING.
Not at all cuz without the video you won't know what to stream video is always going to be relevant because without video you won't know who the artist is and you know you wouldn't know what songs to go stream of theirs without the video
Awesome. 😊When I rank my own top ten favorite songs of the 80s this comes in at #1 for me. I never get tired of singing it when it comes up in my playlists. My 3 daughters all know the lyrics as well. Terrific song!
Some people think that Music Videos started with MTV. There has been music videos as far back as filming begin. And there were plenty of basic TV channel’s that had their Music Video time slot. Before we had MTV, we had Friday night Videos, American Bandstand and Casey Kesam.
I used to date the little girl in this video (wearing Oshkosh B'gosh Overalls) in the late 1990s. She was a child actress and also in the movie "Annie" Her name is Natassia. I forgot the last name
@@billyshepard5514 I know a girl who was in Annie (Tammy O'Roarke)...her little sister stared in the Poltergiest movies...but she was in the dance numbers with the orphans...
@@andreacombs9242 Yes, times WERE different then. Which is why, unlike today's parents, I'm surprised your parents let you back then! I know mine never would have stood for it!
@@retroguy9494 well it was at dads house who only had me half of summer breaks some holidays and some school breaks. I grew up in Sacramento CA he and his wife lived in Reno NV so I was also riding dirt bikes in the desert when I visited and going to the Reno Rodeo and the Camel races held in Virginia City (awesome old western town back then I felt like Laura Ingalls lol).. and I was taught only professional gamblers gamble. Lol totally different times of course I'd fall asleep for a few hours but the channel didnt change for a long time
The irony of the song and MTV's first televised music video, now we're watching it over the internet though a data connection our pocket sized computers using a video streaming application. Whoah 🤯
I remember switching channels and found once that had a countdown and and the astronaut and said "In 5 minutes a whole new tv adventure begins: (something like rhthat...) I was still sitting there happy, 7 years later!
Before MTV started they used to play music videos and short films between movies on HBO. The first music video I saw there was by the Police, I think it was Roxanne.
Wow, I always assumed that the song was made expressly for MTV's debut. I had no idea it existed prior to MTV's development and was not even about MTV. That said, it's strange how prescient the song-writer was; the world he envisioned doesn't sound so different from the world today.
I think maybe they had seen Michael Nesmith's video RIO and got wind of the big reaction to it. Music video suddenly was "in the air". I sure remember the buzz about it not long before Radio Star first played.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the album that Horne and Downs made with Yes it's called "Drama" and it is an excellent album. Highly recommended.
Their true lifespan was Ten YEARS. 83 to 93. Then they were overtaken by Crap and SHIT Hop. And ALL THE BOY BANDS. SHITPOP "Singers" with a CADRE of distracting back up dancers. Game shows. UN reality shows. "News" programming (Of which there was ZERO when the channel appeared). What a shame.
I think the real beginning of what is the MTV mindset started with the appearance of Michael Nesmith's video RIO on the show FRIDAYS a couple years (not sure how much) earlier. It sure created a buzz, and Michael was very much a presence in the public/printed word predicting (and working on) the creation of a "visual music station" with his ELEPHANT PARTS and concept he called POP-CLIPS. Nonetheless, I do love the Radio Star song for some gosh darn inexplicable reason. Maybe just cuz it's catchy...and THAT used to count.
Yep, I remember watching when MTV first aired. All of the kids in my school went home to watch this new music channel air on TV. It was all we talked about.
It’s ironic that there is more music videos available then in any point in time yet MTV just has reality TV shows. Their Unplugged sessions in mid 90s were iconic. Now it’s just awful.
I saw this video for the first time on a video show on Nickelodeon called Pop Clips. It came before MTV. I was 12 when MTV debuted. Damn, I'm old...lol
First music video was made in Seaside, CA. Nesmith's "RIO" in 79 was the BIRTH OF MTV,by way of PBS? Something like that. To much quality time in Carmel Valley and Big Sur.
Technically there were music videos made sporadically during the 1960's, with the Beatles releasing "I Am the Walrus", Procul Harum releasing "A Wider Shade of Pale", and Bob Dylan releasing "Subterranean Homesick Blues". Queen also released several music videos during the 1970's.
I was a few years late getting MTV. Finally got it in 85 when my parents bought a satellite dish. Eventually MTV made it to everyone with cable. I always loved watching the evening news commercial breaks. MTV is unrecognizable now.
I missed the moment by about an hour. Spent about six hours watching the same handful of music videos over and over, though. I sort of miss MTV, even though CZcams delivers all the music videos ever, there's something about how not knowing what the next song/video will be that is fun.
Life imitates art, the process and struggle behind doing a music video that broke barriers, almost proving that video DID in fact kill any radio star LOL. I was like WTF? when you mentioned Hans Zimmer!
So did Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) and Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo). They're both big time Hollywood composers now, as well as that other keyboard player for the Buggles, Hans Zimmer.
To say that this song is significant is not giving it enough credit. It was played for the Prince of Wales! I met my first girlfriend listening to it while rollerskating in Tempe Arizona.
I was there for the launch of MTv. It changed a generation. The beginning of the end for MTv was when artists started making big budget videos. The true classic videos were low budget minimalistic videos like The Buggles.
As I recall, there was a community television station in Broomfield Colorado before MTV. They had a video music show that we all watched. They had a contest to name the show and the winning contestant's entry was MTV. Later the name was bought by the MTV guys.
I thought my grandparents were lying when they told me once that MTV used to be a 24-hour music video and music-related network.
Your grandparents? OMG, I didn't realize I was that old🤦♂️😂 Graduated High School in '81 and was living on my own with no parents. I remember when MTV first came out. Good times....damn good times!
Why would they lie about that... 🎣 for likes
SHAME on you!
We are the MTV generation. We should know. 😊
I remember watching it all in real time. Great time to be a kid.
MTV is unrecognizable now, and has been for years. Damn shame.
Tell me about it! When I was in high school and college MTV was awesome! Its been YEARS since I've actually seen a music video on it!
It started when they aired the Real World & it was all downhill from there.
@Gilbert Alvarado you dont love 24hours of ridiculousness
Great line from Bowling For Soup's single "1985" is "And music still on M-T-V".
The M in MTV now stands for Mundane
"Had this dream where record companies had computers in the basement and manufacture artists..." dang how accurate that was...
That's what I thought too. How sad.
Look up who Max Martin is.
They didn't need computers to manufacture artists 70 years ago. Record companies have been doing it since the beginning. The Monkeys might be the most famous. Then came Partridge Family, The Archies, The Bay City Rollers, Menudo, and countless others. You only needed to look and sound good.
Scary
How did he know??? 🤖
Trevor Horn is a genius. There would be no 1980's Britain without him: Buggles, ABC, Yes, Art of Noise, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones, Propaganda, Pet Shop Boys
The influence of the Art of Noise *alone* is immeasurable.
When i heard the name Trevor Horn....i thought....Art Of Noise? Yep!
Seal, too.
The man is a musical pioneer.
Judging from the above listed line-up, you've been viewing 25 YEARS OF POP, The Prince's Trust Concert from 2004, haven't you? Good taste in music, sir!
I remember when it came on to MTV...I am that old.
A very well season person that's what I will say.🙂🤩
I remember when it came out too. Lol. Still like the song 🎵🎶
Me too
You're not old -just experienced mate
Me too
My bestie and I sat and watched the clock countdown to the moon man lift off, and watched in awe as The Buggles video launched. Our lives were changed forever.
I like your pic, Brody Dalle is my fave
I envy this experience
@@krampus2b97 Looking back, it was still dope af!
Boy MTV and VH1 really turned to crap what a shame they were so good back then
Does MTV even PLAY music video's anymore? I haven't watched it in years! Because they weren't playing music videos! LOL!
When did mtv and vh1 stop playing music video and music content?
@@ninjamaster3453 I thought it was around 2000 or so.
Music turned to crap
What happened to VH1 Classic?
I was there for that moment. Me and my cousins all stood around the TV waiting for the channel debut.
Same here except it was me and my friends, all crowded into another friend's basement.
remember folks MTV used to play music videos. MTV stood for Music Television, now it stands for Moron Trash vision
They need a starting point for Idiocracy. Lol
It's wierd they still had MTV music awards for years. Idk if they still do i have no interest if they did.
@@magiccheeseball I'd be interested if they went back and pulled up old alternative videos and based an award on the popularity of them now. Tool had some great ones. So many others did, as well.
@@Ir0nMa1d3n yeah but they have nothing to do with music for years so why do they do music awards? It's like if discovery channel did music awards It's silly
There was an Asia meet and greet at a bar close to me...that nobody heard about...and I ended up eating dinner with Geoff Downs...we talked about this stuff for about an hour...we had wings...it was 25 cent wing night...
Lucky!
@@annieholbis2430 It was the heat of the moment!
@@DMSProduktions 😁
@@annieholbis2430 ;oP
@@DMSProduktions Telling me what your heart meant, heeeaaat of the moment, showed in your eyessss
They are now known as EMPTY-v
😆Good 1.
The second video on MTV? Pat Benatar "You Better Run".
First female artist: Pat Benatar
First guitarist: Neal Giraldo
You Better Run is an infinitely better song than Video Killed The Radio Star, IMO. I saw an interview with Pat Benatar a few months ago where she talked about how appearing on MTV basically ended any anonymity. Before MTV, musicians were pretty unknown outside their immediate fan base. With MTV, EVERYONE knew who you were.
Little known or remembered fact....I always quiz people on what was the second video on MTV
Helllll yea, my forever crush! Saw her at the pier on the west side of Manhattan in '81, she was unbelievable. Opener? Billy Squier.
Not many know that
Boy she was great😀
I just saved music videos of my favorite songs to a playlist here and named it “I Miss my MTV”
Let's not forget about GTA: Vice City and the song's inclusion on its soundtrack.
its about video.......
Let's
It was on gta first
@@coreyjwingate I have fond memories playing GTA: Vice City back in the late 70's. Kids these days just don't know
MTV was so good when it actually showed music videos. Now you have stupid shows like wild n out. That’s a shame.
I know. I don't even understand why they still call the channel "MTV" because there is no more music!
I was surprised how good of a keyboardist Geoff was. I told this to my friend, The band Asia was going to be the first concert for MTV yet their lead singer John Wetton left the band. We are all Prog musicians and we are friendly to each other. I told Greg Lake of Emerson Lake and Palmer fill in and get the exposure you deserve. He had two weeks to learn the material and caught a cold yet they were great. Geoff had two firsts with MTV
Trevor Horn is the type of musician that ALL musicians should aspire to be...humble and down to earth...LEGEND !!!!
This is a blast from the past back in the day when MTV actually had something to do with music.
I heard you on the wireless back in '52.
Lying awake, intent at tuning in on you,
If I was young, it didn't stop you coming through..🎶❤️
Oh-a, oh-a
They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine and new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
@@jodiepalmer2404 oh-a oh-a🎶
Such a hit here in Australia the sound of the new age
Richard Wilkins used to host, if I recall correctly.
I rushed home from school. I turned on the tv waiting as the static buzzed. Then, the logo ran on the screen, I turned up the volume, and now I have heard this song 10,000 times.
I saw this song live in I =believe 2011, when Asia opened for YES, and Geoff Downes introduced the song by saying his hands were the first thing anyone saw when MTV began. A few years later Downes joined YES as their keyboardist.
Many people today won't remember when MTV played videos.
I was there for the launch of MTv. It changed a generation.
Those days were awesome!Remember watching this and the video Oh Micky your so fine.
You're so fine you blow my mind
Remember when THRILLER first appeared - ?
That video set the BAR.
It was the first video to cost a MILLION dollars (If I remember right).
this was when the average Pro Video ran around 25 Grand.
Or LESS.
They played that thing round the clock almost.
It played probably twice an hour 24 - 7.
It was GROUND BREAKING.
@@annieholbis2430 oh Mickey.
Video killed the radio star, *but at this point streaming has killed video.*
And Spotify killed the record companies 🤣🤑
@@wazzup233 records are still being printed.... but mostly picture discs
Not at all cuz without the video you won't know what to stream video is always going to be relevant because without video you won't know who the artist is and you know you wouldn't know what songs to go stream of theirs without the video
Awesome. 😊When I rank my own top ten favorite songs of the 80s this comes in at #1 for me. I never get tired of singing it when it comes up in my playlists. My 3 daughters all know the lyrics as well. Terrific song!
Thats pretty cool to be the 1st. Wish MTV would rededicate theirselves to music television.......
The good days, when they had awesome stuff on mtv, now they have whatever. I miss the way it used to be on MTV
I wish they had a mtv that played all the old programs 24-7
Some people think that Music Videos started with MTV. There has been music videos as far back as filming begin. And there were plenty of basic TV channel’s that had their Music Video time slot. Before we had MTV, we had Friday night Videos, American Bandstand and Casey Kesam.
I used to date the little girl in this video (wearing Oshkosh B'gosh Overalls) in the late 1990s. She was a child actress and also in the movie "Annie" Her name is Natassia. I forgot the last name
I was just thinking I wonder what happened to that little girl in the video. You know what she's doing now?
@@wildechild5 no I lost contact with her. She was living in Los Angeles last I knew.
perv
@@FlaMan991 she was 30 dummy
@@billyshepard5514 I know a girl who was in Annie (Tammy O'Roarke)...her little sister stared in the Poltergiest movies...but she was in the dance numbers with the orphans...
Top of the Pops was massive growing up in the UK. Remember loving this .
The good ole days.
What killed the video star?They don't show videos "Much Music" anymore either. 😔
The Real World
ah, MuchMusic....the candian music video show with vj Erica Ehm.
Streaming from our toilets
1981..my Freshman year in High School
Perfect! #40...ty You Tube!
I watched MTV for 3days straight when it first aired. I was 7
Your parents let you do that?
@@retroguy9494 they actually did. Times were different then .... they were into too!!
I grew up with the Canadian version, Much Music.
@@andreacombs9242 Yes, times WERE different then. Which is why, unlike today's parents, I'm surprised your parents let you back then! I know mine never would have stood for it!
@@retroguy9494 well it was at dads house who only had me half of summer breaks some holidays and some school breaks. I grew up in Sacramento CA he and his wife lived in Reno NV so I was also riding dirt bikes in the desert when I visited and going to the Reno Rodeo and the Camel races held in Virginia City (awesome old western town back then I felt like Laura Ingalls lol).. and I was taught only professional gamblers gamble. Lol totally different times of course I'd fall asleep for a few hours but the channel didnt change for a long time
I bought the record and I was a teenager. I’m that old!
*@Patricia Rivas* Older and still looking fabulous!
Thank you Trevor! Still a great song/video after all these years!!!
Wow It looks really good for a 1981 vídeo
*Still thrills me as the first time I heard it on radio, thank you Buggles for wonderful memories*
I want my mtv
Money for nothing and the chicks for free.......
That sums it all up!
I love that song so much and i'm happy it was the first music video👏🎵
The irony of the song and MTV's first televised music video, now we're watching it over the internet though a data connection our pocket sized computers using a video streaming application. Whoah 🤯
Wow 40 year anniversary!!!! Thanks for 17 years of videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In “Wedding Singer” and “Take That Waltz”
I remember switching channels and found once that had a countdown and and the astronaut and said "In 5 minutes a whole new tv adventure begins: (something like rhthat...) I was still sitting there happy, 7 years later!
Before MTV started they used to play music videos and short films between movies on HBO. The first music video I saw there was by the Police, I think it was Roxanne.
I remember watching the premier of MTV and this first video. I hated it then but as an adult it has become a very emotional song for me.
I was there..i got to see it begin..what a time to be alive!
Wow, I always assumed that the song was made expressly for MTV's debut. I had no idea it existed prior to MTV's development and was not even about MTV. That said, it's strange how prescient the song-writer was; the world he envisioned doesn't sound so different from the world today.
I think maybe they had seen Michael Nesmith's video RIO and got wind of the big reaction to it. Music video suddenly was "in the air". I sure remember the buzz about it not long before Radio Star first played.
Me too!!!
I watch this as a kid. Thats back when MTV played Music.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the album that Horne and Downs made with Yes it's called "Drama" and it is an excellent album. Highly recommended.
I met Alan Hunter at Chicago Fest in 1981 he was talking about MTV.
And to think 40 years later, mtv would be complete crap.
Their true lifespan was Ten YEARS.
83 to 93.
Then they were overtaken by Crap and SHIT Hop.
And ALL THE BOY BANDS.
SHITPOP "Singers" with a CADRE of distracting back up dancers.
Game shows.
UN reality shows.
"News" programming (Of which there was ZERO when the channel appeared).
What a shame.
I think the real beginning of what is the MTV mindset started with the appearance of Michael Nesmith's video RIO on the show FRIDAYS a couple years (not sure how much) earlier. It sure created a buzz, and Michael was very much a presence in the public/printed word predicting (and working on) the creation of a "visual music station" with his ELEPHANT PARTS and concept he called POP-CLIPS. Nonetheless, I do love the Radio Star song for some gosh darn inexplicable reason. Maybe just cuz it's catchy...and THAT used to count.
Yep, I remember watching when MTV first aired. All of the kids in my school went home to watch this new music channel air on TV. It was all we talked about.
It’s ironic that there is more music videos available then in any point in time yet MTV just has reality TV shows. Their Unplugged sessions in mid 90s were iconic. Now it’s just awful.
I remember Much Music going on the air and they too played Video Killed the Radio Star. I too still love this song.
I remember Mitch Miller and Kate Smith. I am THAT old :-)
Worth the watch for the snippet of Trev at the end.
The first I saw it was when HBO had videos shorts between movies. And I do believe that was before MTV.
I remember the vid from the Buggles. Pat Benetar . Billy Squire and Rick Springfield were also some of the first to have vids on MTV in '81.
U2 was a test subject for MTV in 1980
I saw this video for the first time on a video show on Nickelodeon called Pop Clips. It came before MTV.
I was 12 when MTV debuted. Damn, I'm old...lol
First music video was made in Seaside, CA. Nesmith's "RIO" in 79 was the BIRTH OF MTV,by way of PBS? Something like that. To much quality time in Carmel Valley and Big Sur.
Technically there were music videos made sporadically during the 1960's, with the Beatles releasing "I Am the Walrus", Procul Harum releasing "A Wider Shade of Pale", and Bob Dylan releasing "Subterranean Homesick Blues". Queen also released several music videos during the 1970's.
MTV was on in my house from sun up till sun down in the 80's. It is a shame we can't watch Music on it anymore. A damn shame.
Dude, it literally hit the Top 40 here in the US. How is that *NOT* a hit?
Literally Video Killed The Radio Star is on my playlist I love it
Good job on this mini-documentary ... it told me lots that I didn't know.
I was a few years late getting MTV. Finally got it in 85 when my parents bought a satellite dish. Eventually MTV made it to everyone with cable. I always loved watching the evening news commercial breaks. MTV is unrecognizable now.
I was there watching. Another favorite from the Buggles, "Clean Clean".
Got it on vinyl, roller skated to it early 80s
It was a hit in NZ as well we had a local show called RTR or Ready To Roll long before MTV
The video was on tv in Australia 2yrs before MTV
Video Killed the Radio star is one of the Greatest songs and Videos of All Time. The House beat in this song is Sick!
I ve always thought it was Money for Nothing, but now I guess it was because of its lyrics.
That would’ve been cool!
If only MTV had held off for 4 more years then...yeah...However, it WAS the first video when MTV decided to expand in 1987 (I think) with "MTV Europe"
I remember the The Tubes She's a Beauty. Lol
I missed the moment by about an hour. Spent about six hours watching the same handful of music videos over and over, though. I sort of miss MTV, even though CZcams delivers all the music videos ever, there's something about how not knowing what the next song/video will be that is fun.
should be mentioned that later Trevor Horn did awesome stuff with his ZTT label.
Man I miss MTV / VH1. Literally they are unrecognized today. The world is really going to shit...
Life imitates art, the process and struggle behind doing a music video that broke barriers, almost proving that video DID in fact kill any radio star LOL. I was like WTF? when you mentioned Hans Zimmer!
*MTV* 🕴🏻💃🏻🕺🏻 🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵
R.I.P. 😞
My parents first got cable around 82 or 83. This video was still in heavy rotation on MTV even then.
Actual real music video was Gowen's Criminal mind. 81. Full music video
Haven't watched MTV since the mid 90's.....shame it was awesome once
I remember seeing this video before MTV came out on a show called Pop Clips on Nickelodeon
Ah back when MTV actually played videos!!!!! I remember watching for what seemed like forever to see my favorite video!
Ahh.. Back when Mtv actually played music..lol..Damn I miss Head bangers Ball!
When this happened the cable channel selecter was on a cord with like 30 butttons. lol
On August 1 1981 , the first day of MTV there was 62 music videos ....
Yes I remember when MTV came about.
I heard that Toni Basil was supposed to be the first with "Mickey" but that is only talk. MTV was a big thing and deservedly so back in the day.
I think Trevor Horn did okay career wise ;)
So did Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) and Danny Elfman (Oingo Boingo). They're both big time Hollywood composers now, as well as that other keyboard player for the Buggles, Hans Zimmer.
To say that this song is significant is not giving it enough credit. It was played for the Prince of Wales! I met my first girlfriend listening to it while rollerskating in Tempe Arizona.
I was there for the launch of MTv. It changed a generation.
The beginning of the end for MTv was when artists started making big budget videos. The true classic videos were low budget minimalistic videos like The Buggles.
I saw it on HBO Video Jukebox a couple of years before MTV went live.
As I recall, there was a community television station in Broomfield Colorado before MTV. They had a video music show that we all watched. They had a contest to name the show and the winning contestant's entry was MTV. Later the name was bought by the MTV guys.
Geoff Downes is the current keyboardist for YES and Trevor Horn is still producing YES music. They are still a team to this day.
MTV would brain wash the Generation X with non-stop music videos 24/7. I mean, what was Michael Nesmith thinking?