Good Old Radio

I have been listening to radio right from my young age. Belonging to a generation in which television entered into the drawing rooms slowly, I was fortunate enough to enjoy listening to radio before satellite TV spread its tentacles far and wide and almost pushed radio to the brink. Thanks to FM, radio is once again finding favor with many sections of the population.

The song featured "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles exemplified the takeover of video generation. "Koi yahaan naache naache" from Disco Dancer is a dead lift from "Video Killed the Radio Star" - Bappi Lahiri blatantly lifted everything from the robotically sung verse melody to the unmistakable "oh-wa-oh"s.

I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you.
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through.

Oh-a oh

They took the credit for your second symphony.
Rewritten by machine and new technology,
and now I understand the problems you can see.


Oh-a oh

I met your children
Oh-a oh

What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.


Pictures came and broke your heart.
Oh-a-a-a oh


And now we meet in an abandoned studio.
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
And you remember the jingles used to go.


Oh-a oh


You were the first one.
Oh-a oh


You were the last one.


Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
Oh-a-aho oh,
Oh-a-aho oh


Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.


In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far.
Pictures came and broke your heart, put the blame on VTR.


You are a radio star.
You are a radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.


Video killed the radio star. (You are a radio star.)