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The Buggles: how we made Video Killed the Radio Star

‘I heard Kraftwerk and had a vision of a future where record companies were manufacturing artists with computers in the basement’

I was playing bass in a cabaret band and built my own studio. Leicester City came in to make their 1974 FA Cup final single. I realised that the players couldn’t sing for toffee, so I brought some session singers in. Unfortunately, the week after it came out they got knocked out by an own goal, but I’d realised I wanted to become a producer.

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