THE YEAR IS 1979!
- Trevor Horn wrote this song after reading a science fiction story about an opera singer in a world without sound (she was rendered obsolete).
- Lead singer spoke of his life before success as a band. “Before I started Buggles I was a sort of loser record producer, I spent four years producing records for various people without ever making any money out of it or having any success at all.”
- his was the first video to air on MTV. The network launched August 1, 1981, and this provided the first evidence that MTV was going to make it.
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The female singers on the record were Debi Doss and Linda Jardim (later Linda Allan). Doss had toured with The Kinks as a backup singer; Jardim had sung on a single for The Northampton Development Corporation that was released nationally by EMI, entitled “60 Miles by Road or Rail,” in an attempt to generate publicity for the growing town.
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