Chords for Geoff Downes - the history of Video Killed The Radio Star

_ _ _ _ _ Radio kill radio star first video ever on MTV _ _
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_ written _ [Eb] _ _ above a monumental stone mason's in _ _ _ South
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ Bruce _ _ had a chorus
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[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ song [Eb] built up from their shovel would have the lyrics and _ _
We started to work on this
Music that _ was a pretty significant _ song
_ _ _ When _ _ we actually got around to recording it got signed by I am records [Ab] in 1979
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_ _ [A] _ _ I [Bb] _ [Gb] _
[A] _ _ _ _ went in the studio with Trevor and we
started to put together _
_ That we thought was [Eb] going to be a single that was gonna
get us on the map and _
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_ _ _ Essentially
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_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ Also like to spend his minor [Db] nights _ when [Eb] other people transcribe the song
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_ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ But it's not
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[Gb] straightforward
_ The _ song is [C] actually written in deep [Db] black _ a _ _ _ _ [Eb] lot of people [Db] think that it was [Gb] killed
_ _ _ [A] Radio star doesn't know she's just
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_ gives it a slightly different feel very hard [Gm] to harp on
That _ _ [Gb] was [Db] _ [Gb] _
one of the [A] things that was often transcribed on the other thing was
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_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Gm] [Ebm] They're _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ all added nights on those courts just _ [Ab] _ [Db] _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ like the intro
_ [Ab] _ [Db] So _ _ [Gb] _
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[Dm] we started [E] to build it up in a space around piano
Three of us cut a backing track me Trevor [Eb] Horn and Paul Robinson
_ We started off with that basic piano [Db] part
_ [Ebm] _ [Ab] Passing _
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note that goes down all the [Db] time
_ [Ebm] _ It's [Ab] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
going to like a seventh each time [Db] passing through _ _
Watch me playing it.
I'll slow it right down _ _
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_ [Abm] _ _ You
Stop passing [Eb] no going back down through G flat [Db] each time
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_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ I've [Db] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
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_ [Db] _ _ [N] got a robotic feel going around on that
_ _ _ _ So we have the basic backing track we have the bass the drums
_ _ And the piano that was really how we built this on up and then we started to add _
Certain lines to all certain.
It's all people's really apart from that.
So
I added the string line that went into us _ _ Absolutely _ _ _ _ _
_ Cascading string part we only [Eb] have I think like Selena and the mini move and a profit five
That was [Ab] all I had to actually create the orchestra.
[Db] So _ _
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[N] the chorus behind the vocals that was quite an important line because [Db] it
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Ice creamy kind [Db] of sir
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_ _ _ [Bb] Then I started to build up
[A] _ similar things to me
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_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ Sort of orchestral string part behind behind the piano.
[Eb] So what it when the lyric came _ _ they
By _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ machine the new technology and all these strings
_ [Db] _ [Ebm] In _ [Abm] _ a [Ab] very robotic for the string part
_ So that was another over [D] there
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_ _ [F] Though I started to write _ some other [A] sort of synth sounds _ like _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [B] So that was a very kind of I did that [Ab] was _ I did [Eb] that move some things _ to give it [Dbm] like a sort of horn
[A] _ _ [N] To give it like a horn sound
_ And added blocks.
I especially played _
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life
[A] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [N] So gradually we built it up and built it up until we just get a girl to come in and do one specific [Eb] local _ _ _
_ And eventually it started to come together and video
_ _ When we finished it, we were kind of
_ Three months we've virtually spent on that