Appropriate.

The Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star

“Video Killed the Radio Star” (1979) with Thomas Dolby on keyboards.

The music video written, directed and edited by Australian Russell Mulcahy, was produced on a budget of $50,000. It was filmed in only a day in South London.

The video is best known as marking the debut of MTV, when the US channel started broadcasting at 12:01 AM on 1 August 1981.  It originally aired on the BBC’s Top of the Pops.

Hans Zimmer can be briefly seen wearing black playing a keyboard.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.