VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR
Created on 16/06/2001Latest update on 15/02/2025
Artist: Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club
Author: Bruce Woolley/Trevor Horn/Geoff Downes
Label: K-Tel
Year: 1979
Times change. Meanwhile it's Internet Killed The Video Shop, Grand Theft Auto Hi-jacked MTV or even Downloads Tigerkidnapped The Record Business and most recently and totally unexplainable: Vinyl Killed cd's.
Covers:
- 1979:
Buggles [band of coauthors Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes; n°1 UK]
- 1979:
Ringo [as Qui est ce grand corbeau noir?]
- 1993:
Geoffrey Downes [solo]
- 1996:
Presidents Of The United States [and in film The Wedding Singer]
- 1997:
Asia [on Live In Osaka '92; again with coauthor Geoffrey Downes]
- 2003:
- 2005:
- 2018:
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox & ft. Cunio [Freddie Mercury style cover]
Also by The Offspring, Cyndi Lauper and The Lemonheads.
