The Buggles

The transition from the 1970's to the 1980's was dominated by new wave and synthpop music. These genres were characterized by synthesizers and keyboards, giving this transition a futuristic and science-fiction-like soundtrack. An iconic song of this era would be "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. In addition to its ~ this song expresses a theme of older technology being overshadowed by newer, more advanced technology. Trevor Horn met Geoffrey Downes at an audition for Tina Charles’ backing band in 1976. While neither of them got the part, the two got along and kept up communications. In 1977 the two got together to form the group The Buggles with Downes on the keyboard and Horn on vocals. The duo worked on writing and recording…

On August 1, 1981, a brand new wave of the music industry launched on cable television. The first music video premiering on this channel was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles (cite). While at the time, no one could predict the success of MTV, this song seemed to foreshadow the impact of this new music television. Music videos, while having been around for a long time, had never had a format all to themselves on television. MTV provided artists who could harness the full capabilities…

Radio and television/film certainly had a huge impact on the rise of rock and roll. Perhaps if technology hadn’t advance different music styles would still remain regional. As the radio era had allowed cultural diffusion since each region had a slightly different variety of music than the next. When radio stations started broadcasting nationally, it influenced the rise of different styles of music. Instead of only being exposed to the type of music near them; people could now hear variations of…

because of his father's death. At such a young age Hans had to deal with a lot of heartache from losing his father. But it was through his father's death that Hans really fell in love with music.He doesn't really have any real musical studies, but does play a lot of different instruments, 6 in total. That is a lot of instruments. The reason why he is able to play so many instruments is due to the fact that he lost his dad when he was young. He found his way to cope with his pain through music.…

Hans Zimmer is known for recording music for over 150 films, including The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Last Samurai, and Interstellar. He started out using keyboards and synthesizers and was briefly in a The Buggles’ music video, “Video Killed the Radio Star”, which was the beginning of his career. He went on to other bands, playing the keyboard, bands such as The Damned, where he helped produce an album called the Black Album where his efforts were described as…

Big hair, neon clothes, and parachute pants are some things you might about when you hear someone mention the 1980s. Nothing was understated and image became more important than ever, especially in the music world, during this decade. New music and new inventions in the 80s would change the way we listen to music forever. The creation of MTV was a big deal in the 1980s. MTV was the first television channel to only showcase music videos, the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” being the very…

We agreed it's pretty reasonable for a new company to use them but for big companies like Avea it's a bit absurd. Or is it? The subject of logo usually buggles my mind. I know how much it takes to design a really good logo, but on the other hand I keep asking questions like what it is good for. I don't mean commercially, but like, overall. Okay, ­most people don't exactly help world peace with their jobs but we are so directly working for the market, whatever meaning and creativity logo has in…

Because of the major harms and inefficiency of the status quo, it is my personal opinion that drugs should be legalized. It is both the best solution in the short term, with freed up taxpayer dollars, taking off the heavy burden from the prisons, and less power to illicit drug traders, as well as the long term, with less drug use, less deaths as a result of drug use, more money freed up that compounds year after year, a safer environment, potentially better education system, and less drug…

A girl named Savannah, from South Texas, was only ten years old when she was first introduced to drugs. By the time she was fifteen she found herself in juvie, not even recognizing who she once was. Teens just like Savannah are getting caught up in a world of drugs at such a young age. Teen drug use is a very large problem in America, but people are actively trying to diminish the effect of drugs on teens. Drugs in general are a very dangerous thing, not only just to teens. Drugs have been the…

What happened at 12.01 in the morning on August 1st 1981 would define music television and change the way a generation felt about music. MTV headquartered in New York City was the first channel to feature music video’s 24 hours a day 7 days a week invaded the airwaves of cable television. With footage of the first space shuttle launch countdown of Columbia and the launch of Apollo 11 as the words Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll played over the footage, followed by the MTV theme song. From…