The Buggles: Video Killed The Radio Star?

So did Video end up Killing the Radio Star?

My daughter is doing EduDance this term at school, and this is the song which their dance instructor has chosen for their performance.

I loved this song – it had a really weird vibe and never quite made sense! I just liked singing the end chorus bit.

Here is some interesting information about this song:

This song relates to concerns about mixed attitudes towards 20th-century inventions and machines for the media arts.
It is in the key of D flat major
The tempo is 132 beats per minute
Topped 16 international music charts
Based on 6 basic chords
Is musically complicated though because of it’s key of D flat major, suspended and ninth chords
The song includes instrumentation of drums, bass guitar, electric guitar, synth strings, instruments, piano, glockenspiel, marimbas and other futuristic, twinkly sounds, and vocals
The male voice echos are supposed to sound like they are coming through a telephone
It has rarely been performed live
There have been 22 successfully recorded cover versions.