Ultravox was an English new wave band, first fronted by John Foxx on the 1977–78 Island releases Ultravox!, Ha!-Ha!-Ha!, and Systems of Romance. Their early music encompasses ambient vocal numbers (“My Sex”), post-psych chamber rock (“I Want to Be a Machine”), punk (“Young Savage”), and pioneering examples of electro-pop (“Quiet Men”). Midge Ure headed the […]
Visage was an English electronic supergroup that made a 1980 self-titled album and charted with “Fade to Grey” and “Mind of a Toy,” defining hits of the New Romantic movement. Further chart and club hits followed with their 1982 release The Anvil, including “The Damned Don’t Cry” and “Night Train.” Both albums feature then-current members […]
What would Jon Lord, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Rod Argent, Manfred Mann, Tony Banks, Tony Kaye, John Tout, Kerry Minnear, Vince Crane, Peter Bardens, John Evan, and Richard Wright think of Dave Greenfield, Barry Andrews, Jimmy Destri, Billy Currie, Johnny Fingers, Jools Holland, Greg Hawkes, Allen Ravestine, Steve Nieve, Eddie Rayner, Gary Numan, Dave Formula, […]
Vienna is the fourth album by English art rock/New Wave band Ultravox, released in 1980 on Chrysalis Records. Tracklist: A1. “Astradyne” (7:07) A2. “New Europeans” (4:00) A3. “Private Lives” (4:06) A4. “Passing Strangers” (3:49) A5. “Sleepwalk” (3:10) B1. “Mr. X” (6:33) B2. “Western Promise” (5:44) B3. “Vienna” (4:52) B4. “All Stood Still” (4:23) B-side: “Passionate Reply” […]
Visage is the debut album by the namesake New Wave supergroup comprised of Ultravox and Magazine personnel and fronted by Blitz Club impresario Steve Strange. Forwarded by the singles “Tar” and the Euro smash “Fade to Grey,” the album was released in November 1980 on Polydor. Computer programming is done by ex-Easy Street drummer and Landscape […]
