Elstree (song)

"Elstree"
Single by the Buggles
from the album The Age of Plastic
B-side"Johnny on the Monorail (A Very Different Version)"
Released27 October 1980 (1980-10-27)
Genre
Length
  • 4:33 (album version)
  • 4:04 (single version)
  • 3:35 (special DJ edit version)
LabelIsland
Songwriters
ProducerThe Buggles
The Buggles singles chronology
"Clean Clean"
(1980)
"Elstree"
(1980)
"I Am a Camera"
(1981)
8 tracks
  1. Living in the Plastic Age"
  2. "Video Killed the Radio Star"
  3. "Kid Dynamo"
  4. "I Love You (Miss Robot)"
  5. "Clean, Clean"
  6. "Elstree"
  7. "Astroboy (And the Proles on Parade)"
  8. "Johnny on the Monorail"
Music video
"Elstree" on YouTube

"Elstree" is a song by English pop band the Buggles, released on their debut album, The Age of Plastic (1980). It was the fourth and final single released from the album, released on the 27th of October, 1980. The track, a new wave and synth-pop record, was written by group members Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, who also produced the song. Lyrically, the song is about the studio of the same name. Upon its release, the song was positively received by music critics. Commercially, the single charted at number 55 on the UK Singles Chart. The song's music video features Horn as a janitor who reminisces on his time as an actors for films in the titular studio.