Music Video
The music video for the song, directed by Australian Russell Mulcahy, was first released in 1979. Hans Zimmer can be seen playing a keyboard; Debi Doss and Linda Jardim, who provided the female vocals for the song, are also seen. It is best known as marking the debut of MTV, when the U.S. channel started broadcasting at 12:01 AM on 1 August 1981. On 27 February 2000, it became the one-millionth video to be aired on MTV. It also opened MTV Classic in the UK and Ireland, which replaced VH1 Classic on 1 March 2010, at 6 AM. The video marked the closing of MTV Philippines before its shutdown on 15 February 2010 at 11:49 PM.
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