The Buggles shot to fame in 1979 when they came out with "Video Killed the Radio Star." Today, put your headphones on and check out their 1981 single "I Am A Camera"!
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WHO: The Buggles
GENRE: New wave, Synth pop
“I Am A Camera” was taken from the first page of “Goodbye to Berlin” – a novel by Christopher Isherwood. The original quote was “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
The Buggles wrote the song, but prog-rockers Yes first released it in 1980 under a different title – “Into the Lens.” A year later, The Buggles’s synth pop version was included in their second (and last) album – Adventures in Modern Recording.
There
By the waterside
Here
Where the lens is wide
You and me
By the sea
Take heart
I will never let you go
If you
Only let your feelings show
Lovers all
How you never broke your hearts
You lose them
When the feeling starts
(I am a camera)
(I am a camera)
(A camera)
I am a camera
I am a camera
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