“I had a bit of a shock because I’d just come from working with Yes, who had done 1,000s of live shows and were all brilliant players. Frankie Goes To Hollywood had done 5 shows and they could barely play”: Trevor Horn on the making of Relax

Trevor Horn.

Video Killed The Radio Star, according to The Buggles, but this was also the song that convinced the band’s singer and bassist, Trevor Horn, that his future lay behind a mixing desk rather than on the road

“I’d dragged my arse all the way round Europe with Video Killed The Radio Star,” says Horn in a newly uploaded 2024 interview with Top 2000 a gogo. “I’d been on so many TV shows in so many different countries, miming all the time. The boredom of having to do that over and over again put me off being an artist. I really wanted to get back in the studio because that’s really where I came from.”