"Video Killed the Radio Star"

I heard you on the wireless back in '52
lying awake intent on tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through

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

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Pictures came and broke your heart...

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...

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
in my mind and in my car
we can't rewind we've gone too far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put the blame on VCRs...

Lyrics quoted from Rick Altman, "Television/Sound" in Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture, ed. Tania Modleski, Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1986.