Trevor Horn has now spent more than 40 years defining, shaping, and progressing the sound of British and American pop music.

Dubbed ‘the man who invented the 80s’, Horn rose to fame in 1979 with The Buggles’ prophetic UK number one Video Killed the Radio Star – even from the very beginning, Horn only had his eyes on the future.

Now aged 76, the super-producer and songwriter – responsible for several crucial entries in the big British songbook – has finally allowed himself time to look back on the past, and at his stellar career.

A talking tour of smaller venues across England commences in October, before a short run of three live musical performances in Newcastle, Manchester, and London gets underway in December.

Speaking from his home in north London, Horn tells Metro: ‘When you get t

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