The Buggles were Trevor Horn. They were his attempt to make a faceless group. Sadly, they wanted a music video for it, so they (directed by Russell Mulcahy - later to direct Highlander and Highlander II, attempting to Alan Smithee the second) knocked one up of him dicking about in half an hour and it was the first video ever shown on MTV.
Trevor Horn tried again with the faceless group and came up with the Art of Noise (along with Anne Dudley, JJ and Gary Langan). The Art of Noise were modestly successful and probably still my favourite group of ever and had collaborative hits with Tom Jones (Kiss), Duane Eddy (Peter Gunn), the Mahotella Queens (Yebo!) and Max Headroom (Paranoimia) - as well as bizarrely penning the theme to the Krypton Factor and the Dragnet movie.
However, more bizarrely than that, the faceless and all-white group were once (according to Anne Dudley) voted the US's second best new black act...