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Song title:      Video Killed The Radio Star
Original Album:  English Garden (The Camera Club)
Other Albums:    The Age of Plastic (Buggles)
                 Whatever And Ever Amen (Ben Folds Five)

Words and Music by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley
Copyright © 1979 Epic Records
Published by Sony Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)



INTRO:
Chords:
G6    3x2000    Dmaj7  xx0222
D/F#  2x023x    A      x02220
Em7   020030


[play: 4/4| G6 | D/F# | Em7 | Dmaj7 |

          | G6 | D/F# | Em7 | A |]




VERSE1:
Chords:
D/F#  2x023x    Asus4  x02230
G6    3x2000    A      x02220


| D/F#          G6            | Asus4         A
    I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty-Two

| D/F#     G6           | Asus4        A
    Lying awake intent on tuning in to you

| D/F#       G6             | Asus4           A
    If I was young, it didn't stop you coming through


| D/F#    G6 | Asus4  A |
    Oh-a, oh




VERSE2:
Chords:
D/F#  2x023x    Asus4  x02230
G6    322000    A      x02220


| D/F#            G6            | Asus4         A
    They took the credit for your second symphony

| D/F#        G6           | Asus4         A
    Rewritten by machine and new   technology

| D/F#          G6          | Asus4            A
    And now I understand  the problems you can see


| D/F#  G6   | Asus4        A
 (Oh-a, Oh-a)    I met your children

| D/F#  G6   | Asus4          A |
 (Oh-a, Oh-a)    What did you tell them?




CHORUS1:
Chords:
D    x32010    A/C#   x4222x
G    3x0003    Asus4  x02230
G/B  5x5433    Bm     x24432


| D              | G
  Video killed the radio star

| D              | G
  Video killed the radio star


| D        A/C#   | G/B
  Pictures came and broke your heart,

| Asus4       | Bm |
  Oh,   oh, oh, oh 




VERSE3:
Chords:
D/F#  2x023x    Asus4  x02230
G6    322000    A      x02220


| D/F#         G6        | Asus4         A
    And now we meet in an abandoned studio

| D/F#          G6            | Asus4          A
    We hear the playback and it seems so long ago

| D/F#        G6        | Asus4           A
    And you remember, the jingles used to go:


| D/F# G6    | Asus4        | A
 (Oh-a Oh-a)     You were the first one

| D/F# G6    | Asus4        | A
 (Oh-a Oh-a)     You were the last one




CHORUS2:
Chords:
D    x32010    A/C#   x4222x
G    3x0003    Asus4  x02230
G/B  5x5433    Bm     x24432


| D              | G
  Video killed the radio star

| D              | G
  Video killed the radio star


| D     A/C#   | G/B
  In my mind and in  my car

 | D        A/C#      | G/B
We can't re-wind, we've gone too far

| Asus4      | Bm
  Oh-a, oh, oh oh

| Asus4      | Bm |
  Ow-a, oh, oh oh




INSTRUMENTAL OVER:
Chords:
G6    322000    Bm     x24432              A5  x022xx
A     x02220    F#/A#  6446xx or 6xx676    B5  x244xx
D/F#  2x023x    D/F#   2x023x              G5  355xxx
G     3x0003    Em7    020030


[play: 4/4| G6 A | D/F# G |

          | G6 A | D/F# G |

          | G6 A | F#/A# Bm |

          | G6 | D/A | Em7 | A5  B5  G5 | B5  G5  A5 |]




CHORUS3:
Chords:
D     x32010    D/A    x00232
G     3x0003    A      x02220
A/C#  x4222x    G*     xx5433
G/B   5x5433    Gadd9  x0000x or 3x0203



| D              | G
  Video killed the radio star

| D              | G
  Video killed the radio star


| D     A/C#   | G/B
  In my mind and in  my car

 | D        A/C#      | G/B
We can't re-wind, we've gone too far

| D        A/C#    | G/B
  Pictures came and  broke your heart,

| D/A     A      | Gadd9
  Put the blame on V  -  C  -  R


  | D/F#    G6   Asus4  | A   | D/F#  G6  Asus4
You are________________ a radio star___________


  | D/F#    G6   Asus4  | A   | D/F#  G6  Asus4 |
You are________________ a radio star___________



OUT-CHORUS:
Chords:
D  xx0232
G  3x0003


| D              | G
  Video killed the radio stars

| D              | G
  Video killed the radio stars

| D              | G
  Video killed the radio stars

| D              | G
  Video killed the radio stars


[repeat and fade]