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 […]
The Rich Kids were an English rock band that made the 1978 EMI album Ghosts of Princes in Towers. Original Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock led the band with ex-Slik guitarist/singer Midge Ure, who left after one album with drummer Rusty Egan to form the electro-rock supergroup Visage, which led Ure into Ultravox. Members: Glen […]
Slik was a Scottish pop-rock quartet that released five singles and a 1976 album on Bell Records. They hit No. 1 with “Forever and Ever” and scored a second hit with “Requiem.” After their prescient followup single “The Kid’s a Punk,” they morphed into the punk-oriented PVC2 for the 1977 EP Put You in the […]
Midge Ure — aka James Ure (born Oct. 10, 1953) — is a Scottish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and songwriter from Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, who fronted the bands Slik and the Rich Kids during the mid-to-late 1970s. In 1979, he replaced John Foxx in Ultravox, releasing five albums with the band between 1980 and 1986. At the […]
The Gift is the debut solo album by Ultravox-frontman Midge Ure, released in 1985 on Chrysalis. Tracklist: A1. If I Was (5:20) A2. When the Winds Blow (4:05) A3. Living in the Past (4:34) A4. That Certain Smile (4:09) A5. The Gift (4:58) B1. Antilles (4:07) B2. Wastelands (4:23) B3. Edo (3:24) B4. The Chieftain […]
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 […]
