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Coming up on episode number 1,496, it's time for another birthday tribute episode.

And who better than a guy that has produced some of your favorite songs,

whether you know it or not. I'm talking about a guy named Trevor Horn. And if you grew up in

the 80s, like I did, you had Trevor Horn all over your radio and in your ears and on your

cassettes and on your albums. We're going to find out just who this Trevor Hornfella is and more coming up right now on Coverville. The times are tough now, just getting tougher, whole world is rough, it's just getting

a rougher, cover me, come on baby cover me, well I'm looking for a little ho who will come on in and cover me.

Greetings from Coverville for a Thursday afternoon.

It is Thursday, July 18th, 2024.

My name is Brian Abbott.

Welcome to another cover story edition of Coverville.

Today, the music of Trevor Horn.

And when I say music, he's contributed to a lot of songs, either in front of the microphone,

behind an instrument, or back behind the boards as a producer.

As we go through today's episode, you're going to be surprised at the number of songs that

you're a fan of that you're familiar with that were produced or even had Trevor Horn's music in them, or vocals, for that matter.

Let's start things with a song that was introduced to the world or used as an introduction to the world, for a little television network, a cable

network that started just about 43 years ago next month. Wow, we're about two weeks away

from the 43rd anniversary of this thing. The video killed the radio star, of course, was the first

song played on MTV on August

1st, 1981, and originally done by the Buggles.

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