Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn must have known they were on to something special as they marched around London from studio to studio perfecting "Video Killed the Radio Star."

“We were like a pair of nomads wandering around with our multitrack under our arm. If you look at the original 24-track recording, we did so many overdubs on it that the oxide had virtually come off it because we used to travel round to different studios and add bits and pieces here and there.”

At point in the production Downes decided to use his Minimoog Model D to come up with some horn lines to help carry the orchestration through the middle section of the track.

“I started to get into trying to emulate orchestral instruments and that was really how I started out. I’d use something like a sawtooth to get an oboe. Or a sine wave with slightly detuned oscillators with a slow attack time to get a horn sound when you put it through a delay, so it started me off on a whole episode of emulating orchestral instruments but also having your own stamp on things as well. It was heavily used on the Buggles stuff. It was really a great instrument for experimentation.”

When the track was used to kick off the launch of MTV two years later, the song literally heralded one of the biggest shifts in the music industry since Punk had safety-pinned itself onto the mid-70’s.

“The Buggles were really a groundbreaking concept, an electronic pop duo working towards the end of the seventies.”