Everyone knows the story: at the stroke of midnight on August 1, 1981, the new cable station Music Television (MTV) first aired, playing a steady stream of heretofore little-seen “music videos” that redefined pop music for the rest of the decade. Their first, of course, was The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”: a prescient choice, though not even a single from the ’80s (it topped the U.K. charts and dented the U.S. Top 40 in 1979!) – and, as a new collection from Cherry Red underlines, The Buggles didn’t record it…
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