The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star (The Prince's Trust: Produced by Trevor Horn, 2004)
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- Watch Trevor Horn perform "Video Killed The Radio Star" for The Prince's Trust at Wembley Arena on the 11th of November, 2004.
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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.😪💔
I was wondering why the original back up singers weren't in some of the new performances
Iconic
She's so amazing
The Ooh-wah-ooh's sounded so intensely sexy to me back in the day. I'd play it on the local coffee shop's juke box and I had to be careful not to let anyone see me lip-sync to them lest people get a wrong idea about me.
Amazing that she sounds exactly the same in this live recording.
The back up singers sound even better than on the record, fantastic!!! 😘
Video Killed the Radio Star, you will never be forgotten. The dawn of MTV. Wether you were alive at the time or look back, iconic.
Nostalgic sounds of better times.
RIP Linda Allen, she had a beautiful voice.
Agree 100%
I was thinking what a fabulous voice she had as I watched this video!
Not many songs out there will ever be as immortal as this one.
Money for nothin’
Probably in the top 5 iconic songs for Gen X. I watched Night Flight religiously hoping for Buggles.
Walk of life
True…
1st MTV song
44 years on and this song still sends shivers down my spine, particularly Linda's solo vocal. True future nostalgia.
Takes me back, beautiful memories
I met Linda here in Adelaide South Australia about 14 years ago and she was a lovely person.
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'.
I get chills when I hear her solo. Simply elegant
@@SoulHackerOfficial absolutely..
Oh 😢 Rip i didnt know, its so hard to find any information on her, she has such a good voice.
There was a better version of this exact same 2004 performance on CZcams, 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.
@@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".
Im having a 1980 backflash when life was simple and not complicated
... and now it's "AI killed the radio star" (the more things change)... Glad we grew up in a time when this was ALL REAL, musicians had actual talent and music wasn't as manufactured.
Nah, life was pretty complex. You just were more innocent and naive back then
It was a huge hit in 1979 Dominique !.
It's rare to have a live performance hit so close to the recorded one. Amazing.
1979
Yes close but it's too fast I think
@@hoihoi9866 I think this one is better than the original but to each his own
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.
Its better, the little variations are really adding to it. Consummate musicians at the pointy end of their craft. Just being fantastic.
I was watching when MTV played its first video of this song. I have loved this song ever since. To see them perform it all these years later and sound so awesome is fantastic.
This is one of the best live performances I've ever seen on CZcams. It's musical perfection.
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.
Honestly, when she starts singing at 2:22, my heart moves.
ikr, so powerful🔥
I get chills. My favorite part of the video!
I also love her vocalization at 1:03
@@bluesailormercury same😊
100% agree she’s fabulous
I feel you
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.
The keyboard player is the original also. Loved this song for many many years
Linda Allen had a beautiful voice. R.I.P.
Best live version ever, drummer Paul Robinson is brilliant on this live set. RIP Linda Allen, Debbie Doss a legend too.
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.
Is Linda the pretty brunette on the right? She had curly hair in the 1979 version.
@@mjohncole77Yes.
@@travcollierOn point comment.
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.
Linda Allen has got probably the most recognizable voice in pop that most people have never heard of. Her voice will live on forever in this classic.
Rest in peace Linda
A stunningly beautiful piece of music! RIP Linda Allen - the voice of an angel 🙏
まさに、色褪せない名曲。
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
It's 2023 and this song still sounds futuristic to me.
it ,makes me cry in 2024
Perfect pitch, perfect performance, perfect song. Thank you, Trevor, for your gift to us. 💕
love this live version than the original one
Trevor Horn.... you and Linda Allen will live on in our hearts ....forever.... you are immortal, thank you for your music 🙂
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.
This is real
I love how it sounds futuristic even 40 years later, but when you listen to the piano and strings underneath it's classical music. ❤
2:20 goosebumps 💛💙💛
RIP, Linda Allen. I bet she is she singing with the other angels. 44 Years later this song is still awesome just like it was way back then.
This Lady at 2:22 is the damned hell of a background voice.
Just OUTSTANDING!
RIP Linda Allen - may G-d rest you gently.
@@Dov_ben-Maccabee I couldn't know that! I stand by what I said - but I would use other expressions! Kind regards
BOrn in 74 in Morristown NJ, raised in Sparta, and God Almighty, I remember this! 😊
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..
When I was young, Trevor Horn signature on any song was a quality seal.
There was no exception. Kudos master!
For some reason I watch this every night.
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.
Im 1971 … i remember being in my dads Datsun parked outside Woolworths and it was on the radio 😮😮😂😂
I was on a little date with a friend… we went to a play together and this played when we were heading out to grab dinner :)
What a phenomenal performance…sounds so much like the original…such amazing talent. Trevor Horn, you are a living LEGEND ✨✨
I actually like it better than the original recording.
Ive watched this over and over again. It really is that good.
RIP Linda, fabulous solo
There was an even better version of this 2004 performance on CZcams, the exact same performance, but in Full HD and with even better sound reproduction. That seems to have been taken down.
And in it Trevor had a nice call out to those amazing ladies and the band, all cut from this upload. Why?
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.
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
And there was me thinking the same
They took it done😕
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 !
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
Great song, makes me happy and sad at the same time. Brilliant live performances, considering the passage of time.
They even got Debbie Doss and Linda Allen!
I know exactly what you mean, I wish I could go back to when I 1st heard it, in the 70's ☺😪😪
This has got to be one of my favourite live performances ever. You guys completely nailed it.
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.
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.
Amazing PoP … groundbreaking
Exactly! The chorus is like ear candy!
I absolutely bloody love this song even after all these years 😳❤️❤️
What an amazing performance. And keeping the backing vocalists instead of replacing them it does give it a beautiful touch
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!
One of the best songs ever created. It can be played a hundred times and you never get sick of it.
How is this even better than the studio version??
Probably because he's a musical genius
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”
best live performance ever..very talented producer ..love it
Still loving it in June 2023
Debbie's and Linda's amazing vocals. rest in peace, you had the voice of an angel. all my love.
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.
Because they were Buggles too.
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
❤
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
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”👌😎👍
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!
Driver's Seat and Sausalito SummerNight are awesome songs--two of my favorites too!
Love this song..loved this 2004 concert..Trevor Horn is the very best.
I just love this song.
My sweet lord what a live performance...magical
a timeless iconic super song
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!
I never get tired of hearing this song, and I love the piano solo version too!
Am i the only 15 year old that absolutely adores this song😂😂??
Lillie Parkinson, you are destined for greatness
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
What a lineup -- a musician's musician's murderers row. Superb arrangement -- and those three bass chords during the short breakdown 🤩
Yeah he's playing some nice voicings in that spot
Here it is 2024 and this song still rocks. Trevor, you are a musical genius!!!
ROCK ON.
The piano and backing vocals. Just beautiful. ❤
Thank you. The song inspired me very very much. ❤❤
GREAT SONG!
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.
How hard it is to believe so much time has passed.
I like Linda's chorus because it's powerful.
Thank you
Linda was awesome. RIP
Me too
Sigh long live the 80s!
If you look closely off to the side at 0:34 you can see Bruce Woolley on guitar! He co-wrote the song with Trevor and Geoff in 1978 and went on to form the Camera Club with names like Thomas Dolby and Matthew Seligman in 1979! Really cool that he's kept up with them after all these years. He even did backing vocals on Trevor's Solo album in 2018!
Trevor Horn - the man who invented the 80s.
Like "gold dust", this great song came out of the radios back then and was so much better than almost anything else.
Great song, Great Era in music and some geeat memories growing up in the 80's! This song never gets old! Thanks Trevor!!
Think about how much truth there is in this song.
Still love this song!!!
Trevor Horn and this song is like a fine wine. Just gets better with age.
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.
The anthem of the best decade ever. 80s forever!
One of the best pop songs of the 20th century! An iconic classic!
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
The first single i ever bought.
Ma génération merci beaucoup 🙋♀️😘😘😘
I met Linda and Trevor and... well everyone... on this gig twenty years ago... and it was an incredible night for me - though, at the time, I was working on it as the 'showcaller', so I didn't really get to glory in what was happening to me until I saw it back afterwards on the DVD. It was a crazy night since it was an unrehearsed one off gig... pretty much with every band I had loved growing up, and still do - all of course produced by Trevor.
Linda I remember specifically since she introduced herself to me and I had no idea who she was until months after the gig. Her voice, and this specific song / refrain of hers, was of course etched into my very being before I'd even left primary school. I wish I'd known she'd sung this song when I was chatting to her... I was somewhat preoccupied with Trevor trying to make this show fly at the time! - I consider this evening one of the greatest of my life actually.. but strangely, I had to understand this retrospectively!
for the first time when i heard this sweetest song i felt like i was flying to another world of innocence and beauty just in 1980 in the rtve espagnol chanel it was a saturday called applauso how so sweet ! old s gold .but now even if you have money you see the world upset
Wow, breathtaking. All the performers at the very top of their game. Superb.
This is fantastic! I've still got the single from 1979..this performance is timeless!!
Fantastic version of this timeless classic. The arrangement was beautiful.
Damn, Trevor Horn and his friends/team gave us so much brilliantly made, composed and produced music - what a musical hero this man is✌! This playlist is nothing but magical.
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🥰
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 🇯🇵🤗
Fantastic version :)
One of the best songs of all time.
Thank you, Trevor and Geoff, still hits today. Bravo for being one of those rare, Soundtrack to our Lives songs.
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.
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
Brings back my home ,youth and many nights out ..alas we all age but music makes us younger
Simply amazing Trevor 🎉❤