Video Killed the Radio Star

Is

the video called The Radio Star 80s? Yeah.

Oh, it might have been 70s, but that was

The Buggles.

It's a documentary.

It's, it's almost like Video Killed the Radio Star.

Um, b- it's broke into three parts.

Bam, bam, bam.

But the

first video was Video Killed the Radio Star.

I wonder how many times they play that that day, too.

One of the most

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And with the title of this newsletter, I apologize to the editor of Podnews, James Cridland, who has been the world's principal archivist of lazy Video Killed the Radio Star headlines.

Oops, I did it again.

I've spent this week going through brand-new The Podcast Landscape 2026 data, looking for something I could give you before Podcast Movement that wouldn't spoil the keynote, and I found it at the bottom of the device table, where it has been sitting for years, eroding away.

He did Total Eclipse of the Heart.

He did Video Killed the Radio Star and many more.

I could go on.

Well, yeah, you can kind of tell, like, for an 80s action film, like, it zips along.

The Red Rocker wrote and performed it while his first marriage to his wife Betsy was really falling apart, tied to her severe anxiety and mental health struggles.

Now, Sammy admitted he was very uneasy being filmed for music videos because he didn't want his performances to look fake, you know? As he put it on the UK TV show, Video Killed the Radio Star, he said, the more you watch yourself on video, the more obvious it becomes when you're faking it.

And it just really looks stupid.

So instead of lip syncing, the Red Rocker turned things up.

Billy Joel, Culture Club.

He did Video Kill the Radio Star.

So he was the director of the first video.

He's like