Elstree (song)

"Elstree"
Single by The Buggles
from the album The Age of Plastic
B-side "Johnny on the Monorail (A Very Different Version)"
Released 27 October 1980
Genre Synthpop
Length 4:33
Label Island
Writer(s) Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes
Producer The Buggles
The Buggles singles chronology
"Clean Clean"
(1980)		 "Elstree"
(1980)		 "I Am a Camera"
(1981)

"Elstree" is a synthpop song by The Buggles recorded in 1980 and available on the album The Age of Plastic. Released on 27 October 1980, it was the fourth and final single from the album. "Elstree" refers to the Elstree Studios, in keeping with the film-making subject of the song.

Music video

A music video was filmed featuring Trevor Horn as a BBC janitor cleaning a cemetery set on a sound stage as he recalls his days as a bit player in Elstree Studio b-films. As Horn reminisces, black-and-white footage of his "films" play, illustrating the various roles he recalls in the song.

Cover versions

Gigi D'Agostino reused parts of the song's melodic structure for his 1999 hit "Another Way".

The Buggles
Studio albums
Singles
"Video Killed the Radio Star" • "Living in the Plastic Age" • "Clean Clean" • "Elstree" • "I Am a Camera" • "Adventures in Modern Recording" • "On TV" • "Lenny" • "Beatnik"
Categories
Albums • Songs