Trevor Horn

Trevor Horn is a British producer, songwriter and musician whose work helped shape the sound of 1980s pop. After working as a bassist and session musician, he formed the Buggles with Geoff Downes and recorded Video Killed the Radio Star.

His production work included ABC’s The Lexicon of Love, Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock, Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Relax and Two Tribes, and Grace Jones’s Slave to the Rhythm. He also co-founded ZTT and contributed to the Art of Noise. Later work with Seal extended a career in which elaborate arrangements and new recording technologies became central elements of commercially successful British pop.