Development
| "I Am a Camera" | ||||
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| Single by The Buggles | ||||
| from the album Adventures in Modern Recording | ||||
| B-side | "Fade Away" | |||
| Released | October 1981 | |||
| Format | 7", 12" | |||
| Genre | Synthpop | |||
| Length | 4:32 | |||
| Label | Carrere ZTT |
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| Writer(s) | Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn | |||
| Producer | Trevor Horn | |||
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The first version of the song was a demo, recorded on a Sunday afternoon when songwriters Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes started working on the second Buggles album in 1980. When they joined Yes, it gained input from other members Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White, and therefore, "Into the Lens" features a more distinctive "prog rock" sound. When Horn and Downes resumed work on the Buggles album which would become Adventures in Modern Recording, the song was reworked as "I Am a Camera" - now with a tendency towards the characteristic synthpop style of that group. Trevor Horn said about the two versions:
The song "I Am a Camera" was a Buggles track and we had adapted it into a Yes track. It became "Into the Lens" and, naturally, slightly more overblown. I don't mind "Into the Lens"—the melody's unadulterated while the arrangement's a lot more complicated—but I still prefer The Buggles version. I think Geoffrey's brilliant on the The Buggles version.
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