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Post by Lydia Purple on Jan 3, 2014 8:45:47 GMT -8
No.100 of the 100 Songs That Changed History: Future super-producer Trevor Horn spent his prime as a jobbing sessions man and part of the house band at the Hammersmith Palais. He was 30 years old (which is like 99 in pop years) when he donned a pair of giant specs and wrote his Delphian masterpiece about how the rise of the pop video would spell doom for the less photogenic performer. It was, fittingly, the first video aired on the then new-fangled cable channel MTV, thereby fulfilling its own prophecy. Ironically, Horn had precisely the sort of radio-friendly look that would soon be edged out by the Milli Vanillis and New Kids On The Blocks of the new pop era. Although his colossal glasses would, these days, give him a chance at a comeback with a Shoreditch electropop outfit. (Source: Time Out London)
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