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 Ultravox (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The band released the album Vienna on the new label Chrysalis Records and achieved a substantial hit with the title track (inspired by Carol Reed's The Third Man), which was accompanied with a distinctive video.
Although most of the album was dominated by guitars and electric violin, the final track, "Hiroshima Mon Amour", was a prototypical synth-pop song.
The band was formed in 1973 on the initiative of vocalist, songwriter and keyboardist John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultravox_(band)   (782 words)

  
 Techno Guide: Ultravox
Their first album "Ultravox" was produced by Brian Eno and released in 1977 with influences from Kraftwerk, David Bowie and Roxy Music.
After this try the band split again and in 1993 there was another comeback with Billy Currie reforming the band with new members for the release of two more albums.
The international success of the band came with the album "Vienna" in 1981 which reached the Top 5 in the UK charts.
http://www.intuitivemusic.com/tguideultravox.html   (312 words)

  
 Collector Cafe - Register
The band’s debut album, the starkly titled ‘Ultravox!’, appeared at the height of the UK punk scene in early 1977.
The final album from Ultravox MK.1 was ‘Systems of Romance’, recorded by German music guru Conny Plank and pointing towards the synth-led music of the Ure-led incarnation of the band.
Ultravox are perhaps best known for their synth-driven New Romantic hit single ‘Vienna’, released back in 1981.
http://www.collectorcafe.com/article_archive.asp?article=630&id=2428   (357 words)

  
 Band Aid (band)
In 1986 the anarchist band Chumbawamba released the album Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records as well as an EP entitled "We Are The World", jointly recorded with US band A State of Mind, both of which were intended as anti-capitalist critiques of the Band Aid/Live Aid phenomena.
The recording studio gave Band Aid 24 hours free to record and mix the record on 25 November 1984.
Band Aid's exploits were parodied by The Simpsons in the episode Radio Bart.
http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/B/Band-Aid-(band).htm   (1973 words)

  
 Amazon.com: HA! HA! HA! [IMPORT]: Music
Ultravox in their original incarnation were the philosopher's stone between new wave and punk rock.
Overall, this is a good album not only for fans of the early band, but for anyone looking for something more new wave, punk-ish, and retro to add to their collection of albums.
This album, recorded with the band's original lead singer John Foxx, falls somewhere between punk and new wave.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000025XHU?v=glance   (1108 words)

  
 Ultravox Music and Discussion
Ultravox were the best musical group I have ever seen and still are as far as i'm concerned.
Ultravox is the back up band that plays on "Cars" for Gary Numan.
I do a brilliant Midge mime to all their tracks, I know most songs word for word.
http://www.gnoosic.com/discussion/ultravox.html   (385 words)

  
 Shadowplay Band Descriptions: U
The band -- more often a recording project, sometimes a performing unit -- writes and records surging, cavernous sounds that strike the listener like the slap of a velvet-gloved hand.
One can't help but feel that 4AD would be an ideal home for The Lovers, a band who freely acknowledge the UKs punk and post-punk guitar acts as being major influences on their sound.
They won an ARIA for best new band after their debut album in '91, toured the UK and US (twice) and have supported seminal alternative acts and kindred spirits The Cure and My Bloody Valentine.
http://www.geocities.com/dhouse12/shadowplay/bandsU.html   (1275 words)

  
 Ultravox - Ingenuity
Ultravox hasn't exactly been the most stable group since the split of the best known incarnation of the band back in 1987.
This was understandable, given the lack of common personnel, and the end result had a very different feel to previous Ultravox albums.
The new Ultravox lineup seems equally happy creating their own particular flavour of synth-rock or recalling the band's glory days in the early 80s.
http://www.awrc.com/review/u/ingenuity.html   (1698 words)

  
 dream giver redux tours simple minds 1978
The band would come on with their backs to the audience, to a tape of weird sounds put together by David Henderson, with a revolving police light in a perspex head casting a blue beam around the cramped environment.
By the end of the year, they were under the watchful eye of Bruce Findlay, had signed with Zoom Records, were a support band in demand (having supported The Only Ones, Ultravox, Generation X and The Strangers) and were ready to cut their debut album.
The band's fee was £25 plus a tray of filled rolls.
http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/tours/t1978   (895 words)

  
 Tentative Review by The Christopher Currie: Ultravox - Ingenuity
Armed with a second-rate band and a set of second-rate songs, Currie's Ultravox predictably produced a second-rate album.
From 1980-86, Ultravox were among the most notable synth-based bands in the British musical landscape.
But it was a credible Ultravox, featuring at least two strong musical talents and a solid songwriting approach.
http://www.tranglos.com/marek/yes/tr_70.html   (1376 words)

  
 Kim Wilde Encyclopedia: Ure, Midge
While still writing and recording with Ultravox, he recorded songs with Phil Lynott ("Yellow Pearl") and Mick Karn ("After A Fashion"), and in 1982 enjoyed a UK Top 10 solo hit with his version of "No Regrets", previously a hit for the Walker Brothers.
In 1987 Ultravox recorded their final album and broke up.
Guitarist/vocalist Midge Ure began his professional music career with Salvation, a Glasgow-based group that became the bubblegum band Slik in 1974.
http://www.kimwilde.com/kwe/ure.html   (458 words)

  
 Astradyne.Org - Article about Ultravox in the Record Collector
Where the band excelled was in the scope of their talent: Midge Ure and his cohorts could do edgy balladry, upbeat pop and sparse, spiky synthscapes at will.
Their Bowie and Roxy-influenced sound led to a deal with Island at the height of punk, and a major coup was scored when Brian Eno agreed to produce their eponymous debut album, which, however, failed to chart.
New Romantic was a journalistic term for the new generation of bands who were reacting against the New Puritanism of punk.
http://www.astradyne.org/e/rc_ultravox.htm   (753 words)

  
 Ultravox
Vienna, the band's first album with Ure, truly raised the bar for the synth acts that were to come, and Ultravox helped create the look and attitude of the new romantics that would follow their lead.
The second band was the '80s incarnation of Visage, with new friends Currie and Ure along with Cann and Cross.
Like contemporaries Kraftwerk, Ultravox had a hard time gathering a sizable audience, and after four years together the band members, unhappy with the band's progress, began looking for projects beyond Ultravox.
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/lyrics/ultravox.htm   (228 words)

  
 Resolution for objbuilder - 80sxchange.com
There was a band in the 80's that had a kind of techno/ambient sound.
After Midge Ure left the band in 1985, the remaining members shortened the band name to U-Vox and released some further recordings, but they never were able to continue their sucessful times again.
Their breakthrough and greatest hit was "Vienna" from the album of the same name released in 1980.
http://www.80sxchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2696   (717 words)

  
 Tentative Review by The Christopher Currie: Ultravox - Future Picture
That the band seems to be playing the track slower than the album version doesn't really help.
This may simply be a case of the band being "on" for certain tracks, and "off" for others.
The track merits its rating as a decent track by virtue of the fact that Currie's (somewhat lengthy) instrumental spotlight is quite listenable, especially with regards to the viola solo; the actual song is average at best.
http://www.tranglos.com/marek/yes/tr_71.html   (1359 words)

  
 Ultravox
UltraVox is a acoustical event recorder, automatically monitoring the occurrence of vocalisations within a user-defined frequency band.
Includes the UltraVox 4-channel software and a 4-channel audio filter.
Includes the UltraVox 1-channel software and a 1-channel audio filter.
http://www.tracksys.co.uk/Pages/Ultravox/Ultravox.htm   (1800 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Ultravox
Ultravox broke up in mid-'87, freeing Ure to complete his second solo album.
Originally lost in the gap between glam-rock and punk, Ultravox (initially operating, from 1974 to '76, as Tiger Lily) became prime movers of the electro-pop and new romantic movements when they combined synthesizer with the direct and danceable pop music of the new wave.
Ingenuity, the sole studio album by this version of Ultravox, is surprising in its non-wretchedness.
http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=ultravox   (1865 words)

  
 Stuart Adamson, Big Country, Barclay James harvest, John Foxx, Ultravox, Ewan MacColl and other Pop and Rock Music in ...
) in 1981, the band with whom he is best identified, as is the distinctive style of his guitar playing.
This in turn led to a contract with EMI as the band became one of the first signings to the Harvest label.
They have been plagued with controversy, financial problems, band members coming and going, yet they still continue as a band and as solo performers.
http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/celebs/popmusic8.html   (2256 words)

  
 New Romantic Downloads - Download New Romantic Music - Download New Romantic MP3s
Palmer left the band in the summer of 1983, as ABC was recording their second album.
Greatest showcased the band's early days of glam rock décor and new romanticism to the alluring sophistication Duran Duran exuded throughout the '90s.
http://www.mp3.com/new-romantic/genre/416/subgenre.html   (3359 words)

  
 Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage Unsung Reviews Ultravox - Systems of Romance
Ha!’ the misaligned, 3D starkness of the band, reeked of un-Romanised punk imagery, but yet it contained a psychedelic aloofness that was despised by the music press.
The first being; ‘Ultravox’ (1977) released at the height of punk.
John Foxx had planted a seed in my head at the end of Ultravox’s last album and I anticipated, what I hoped would be the greatest album ever recorded.
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1031   (1376 words)

  
 Caravan - Spirit of 66 - 14/12/2003
I also remember that Ultravox did not play because this was 1977 and Ultravox was still very much of a punk band rather than the polished Midge Ure band we all know from their worldwide hit ‘Vienna’.
In fact a lot of the band’s seventies material was performed with a decent selection coming from albums such as “For girls who grow plump in the night”, “In the land of grey and pink” and “If I could do it all over again, I’d do it all over you”.
On sunday the bands were Water, Livin Blues, Ultravox and Caravan.
http://www.prog-nose.org/engels/concertinpressions/caravan_spirit_141203.htm   (846 words)

  
 New Wave Complex - Ultravox
On the road they even made it down here to Australia where they spent some time in the studio reworking a couple of songs for single release and recording an unknown track that was never released with the band keeping all copies of the tapes.
They eventually came to some agreement with the record companies.The new band got a loan and went to the States to tour for six weeks.
This is surprising considering the departure of their passionate programmer John Foxx who, going by his first solo record 'Metamatic', took the blueprints with him and subsequently inproved on them.
http://www.lexiconmagazine.com/NWC/ultramidge.html   (1772 words)

  
 Search: Ultravox - Info.co.uk
Ultravox were amongst the most important bands of the early eighties...
UltraVox serves as a smart acoustical event recorder.
Reviews of albums, singles and so forth by the ever-so-wonderful Ultravox.
http://dpxml.infospace.com/infocom.uk/results?otmpl=dog/webresults.htm&qkw=Ultravox&CMP=KNC-3LS480536328&infoad=1   (282 words)

  
 Midge Ure: album reviews and ratings
Midge Ure started his solo-career in 1985, and since, has released four full-length albums of suave atmospheric sounds, none of which --unfortunately-- compares to his brilliant musical achievements with Ultravox.
The seventeen track include all seven of his solo singles released between 1982 and 1988, rare B-sides and a selection of live tracks.
"Except for a slightly increased guitar focus and the large proportion of instrumentals, Ure's one-man solo album (...)sounds enough like Ultravox in spots to unsettle his bandmates--it could easily be mistaken for a group effort.
http://www.musicfolio.com/modernrock/midgeure.html   (596 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Entertainment Music Midge Ure: Music's quiet man
The band enjoyed a chart-topping single with Forever and Ever in 1976, but Ure was unimpressed with the band's direction.
Midge Ure, who is made an OBE in the Queen's honours, is known for his hits with 1980s pop group Ultravox and as one of the forces behind Band Aid and Live Aid.
Both the singer and band evolved in 1974, with Salvation becoming Slik and Ure taking the name Midge - a take on "Jim" reversed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4078580.stm   (525 words)

  
 ZYNTH ZENTRAAL - ULTRAVOX history 2
Warren Cann is no longer with the band, the music is changed to a more acoustic, "back to basic" style wich was the reason for Warren leaving.
He meets the band, the chemistry works and in 1980 they release the album "Vienna", now at Chrysalis records.
Midge och Billy pays back the money they got, brings the melody to Ultravox, put some text to it and it just happens to be a hit song...
http://hem.passagen.se/mickeh/uvox/euvox2.html   (468 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Band Aid and Live Aid
On the anniversary of Band Aid, a new generation came together to rework the song as part of the ongoing battle to eradicate starvation...
Credited to Band Aid II, with the original recording on the B-side, the song again reached number one and brought the 1980s to a fitting close.
The runaway success of Band Aid and USA for Africa was followed by a series of one-off concerts which raised further money for the cause.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A447266   (1292 words)

  
 The Artist Shop's Import Catalog U to Z
Previously unreleased album from the band that formed when Venegoni left Arti E Mestieri in the 70's.
With twin lead guitars the band has expanded their musical vision to encompass neoclassical metal as well as symphonic speed metal.
Digitally remastered from the original master tapes, this is a reissue of the 1974 album by this glam/ pop band fronted by Roy Wood, the eccentric English multi-instrumentalist/ co-founder of both The Move and Electric Light Orchestra.
http://www.artist-shop.com/catalog/imports/u-z.htm   (15977 words)

  
 Ultravox Fan Sites and Music Photography Directory
Ultravox updates will be happening with more music and band photography sites soon.
Browse Ultravox sites below to find the music or photography sites you are looking for your favorite band or artist.
You can also find stuff to buy like Band and Music Photos at amazon.com.
http://www.zrank.com/music_u/Ultravox.html   (212 words)

  
 Biography and Discography - Ultravox
All of the music bands and artists above are listed alphabetically.
If there are particular band members or music catalogs that you need, we suggest contacting on of the sites below directly.
Below you will find previously reviewed links to sites containing music and band biographies for Ultravox along with any artist, band or singers discography.
http://www.iband.com/music/u_bios/Ultravox.html   (252 words)

  
 New Wave Complex - Ultravox
A new single was lifted from the album, Quiet Men/Cross Fade (3/10/78) and the band did some dates in the States.
Their first single, Dangerous Rhythm/My Sex is released through Island Records (19/1/77), both songs written by Foxx/Cross and recorded with the help of Brian Eno and Steve Lillywhite.
The band, who are Steve Shears playing an incredible bending Gibson guitar, Chris Alle, bass and the Canadian Warren Cann on drums, are loose and enjoyable and even their out of tuneness (on their second gig together) seems to contribute something to the overall atmosphere."
http://www.lexiconmagazine.com/NWC/ultrafoxx.html   (637 words)

  
 Midge Ure: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more Music.com
One of the key members of the new wave band Ultravox [+], guitarist/vocalist Midge Ure [+] began his professional music career with Salvation, a Glasgow-based group that became the bubblegum band Slik [+] in 1974.
The two wrote the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and assembled an all-star band of British musicians to record the single; it sold millions of copies over the 1984 holiday season and prompted Geldof to organize the benefit concert Live Aid in 1985.
Once he joined the band in 1980, Ure helped make Ultravox [+] a mainstream success; during this time he also worked as a producer, making records with Steve Harley [+] and Modern Man [+].
http://www.music.com/person/midge_ure/1   (532 words)

  
 BBC - Devon Music - Midge Ure at the Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe
Midge Ure fronted the band, and he went on to lead Ultravox...Vienna, All Stood Still, Dancing With Tears in my Eyes were the biggest hits, made notable by Midge's distinctive vocals.
Speaking recently, he said he's still amazed at the impact Band Aid had: "It was just magnificent, the whole thing.
He descibes the album as a lot more guitar orientated then previous ones, and says: "I’ve gone back and grabbed my synthesisers with great gay abandon again and I’ve started making all those lovely noise and atmospheres.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/music/2002/midge_ure.shtml   (540 words)

  
 Didja Know? - Ultravox - 80sxchange.com
Ultravox were one of those bands whose singles chart positions belied their popularity.
Before Ultravox, Midge Ure was in two bands, one of which reached the top (he never did reach the top with Ultravox, he was held at No. 2 in 1981 by Joe Dolce's "Shaddap You Face").
Warren Cann and Chris Cross from Ultravox also composed the music for the "Max Headroom" TV Movie, shown on Channel Four in the UK in 1983.
http://www.80sxchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17171   (1089 words)

  
 John Foxx & Ultravox MEGASTORE
Ultravox parallel Roxy Music in having had one career as innovators and another with a smoother, more commercial blend.
Gary Numan cited Foxx as his main influence, which was some consolation for the fact that Numan was having hits when Ultravox were dropped by Island Records in 1978.
Mick Karn After A Fashion '83, solo LP The Gift '85 with no. 1 single If I Was: he co-wrote most songs with Danny Mitchell, half of former Ultravox tour support the Messengers (he also played in Ure's live band that toured to promote LP).
http://www.leninimports.com/john_foxx.html   (899 words)

  
 Ultravox
LINKS RELATED TO Ultravox Mp3, Ultravox Music, Ultravox...
http://www.intothemusic.net/Music-Archive-Ultravox-0019210000002.html   (16 words)

  
 Midge Ure
He directed videos for Bananarama, is musical director for The Prince's Trust concerts and, most famously of all, instigated the Band Aid and Live Aid projects with Bob Geldof.
They will be most remembered, however, not for an album, but for the classic synth-pop single Vienna, which was famously kept off the top of the charts by Joe Dolce's novelty song Shaddap You Face.
He wasn't the only one, for in the space of just six years, Ultravox had seven Top 10 albums in the UK.
http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/midge-ure.htm   (1120 words)

  
 Steve Lillywhite: Joint-Managing Director of Mercury Records in the UK and International Record Producer
Ultravox wanted me to work on their first album (the eponymously titled Ultravox) after they had been signed.
I was a tape operator, and basically I would sit in a room and press buttons on a tape recorder and record bands.
They subsequently got a record deal with Island Records - their name was Ultravox.
http://www.musicjournal.org/02stevelillywhite.html   (2177 words)

  
 Ultravox MP3 Downloads - Ultravox Music Downloads - Ultravox Music Videos
Trading Foxx's glam rock stance for Ure's aristocratic delivery, Vienna recasts the band as a melodramatic synth pop chamber ensemble with most of the group doubling on traditional string quartet instruments and the synthesizers often serving to emulate an orchestra.
Trading Foxx's glam rock stance for Ure's aristocratic delivery, Vienna recasts the band as a melodramatic synth pop chamber ensemble with most of the group doubling on...
It was a bold move that took awhile to pay off (the first two singles, "Sleepwalk" and "Passing Strangers," went unnoticed), but when the monolithic title track was released, the Ure lineup became the band's most identifiable one almost overnight.
http://www.mp3.com/albums/16653/summary.html   (483 words)

  
 Ultravox Music CDs at Songsearch.com
Ultravox Music CDs, DVD Movies, Music Videos, Songs, and Song Titles
No-One Can Dispute That Ultravox Were One Of The Most Influential Groups Of The 80's, They Reached The Top Of The Charts With Such Classic Singles As Vienna And Dancing With Tears In My Eyes.
Ultravox - Quartet (Remastered + 4 Bonus Tracks)
http://www.songsearch.com/catalog/u/ultravox.html   (784 words)

  
 band aid: Midge Ure
The title track, a grandiose ballad, became Ultravox's best-selling single, reaching Number 2 and contributing to the album's 72-week chart run.
In 1986, Ultravox released a new album 'U-Vox', but the group gradually drifted apart as Ure concentrated on solo projects.
They released the groundbreaking album 'Vienna' in 1980.
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/iccp/2001/iccp15/midgeure.htm   (318 words)

  
 80’S ERA BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS
Midlands based band formed in 1998 and began gigging throughout the UK as an Ultravox Tribute Band.
A five piece band consisting of 4 males and one female.
A 5 piece band authentically recreate the best No. 1 hits of the 80’s.
http://www.normanphillips.co.uk/80s_era_bands_singers.htm   (348 words)

  
 Ultravox - Future Picture
Its interest is greater than that of a straightforward live album due to its mix of new and old material, and although it's not as good an introduction to the sound of the latest lineup as Ingenuity, it's cheaper (except in Germany) while still giving a feel for their new sound.
These songs are a decent mix of tracks that manage to capture the true Ultravox synth sound (
The new lineup, on this new live album (recorded in Italy in 1993) achieves both.
http://www.awrc.com/review/u/future_picture.html   (468 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Music: Ha Ha Ha
The only Ultravox track ever to feature a saxophone - courtesy of CC, a friend from another band, Gloria Mundi, two members of which, Eddie & Sunshine, later supported Ultravox live - the song has an atmosphere you can almost touch.
A beautiful, chaotic, messy album, and light-years away from the mannered, mannequin eleganza of later Ultravox.
I like to believe the song is a pointer to what they knew was coming next, the new electronic music.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000025XHU   (633 words)

  
 Amazon.com: If I Was: The Very Best of Midge Ure & Ultravox: Music
Ultravox had a number of good songs without Midge (when John Foxx sung).
Ultravox songs like "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" and "Reap The Wild Wind" were standards on stations like KROQ and 91X.
Check out my favorite new wave and synthpop bands: by J.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000DQNO?v=glance   (971 words)

  
 DVD.net : Midge Ure - Rewind: The Greatest Hits Tour - DVD Review
Ure's voice is still strong, and the band consists of fine musicians.
After a ten year break, Ure has released another solo album, Move On, and several of the tracks are included in the show, as well as enough Ultravox hits to ensure that all fans will be appeased.
He has written and performed a string of hits for Ultravox, Visage, Band Aid and for his solo career.
http://www.dvd.net.au/review.cgi?review_id=1830   (1355 words)

  
 Band Aid
The B-Side of the Band Aid single was an instrumental version, featuring overdubbed and improvised guilt trip proclamations by the ill-informed popsters.
However, back in 1984, it was virtually unheard of for our idols to all get together en masse, and sing a song for charity about how awful the world is. Band Aid was the brainchild of unwashed Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof, and former, stupidly-named, Ultravox frontman Midge Ure.
Simply hearing one utter the words "rainforest" is enough to have him forever labelled "out of touch old git".
http://www.bubblegun.com/culturepop/bandaid.html   (630 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Music: Vienna
Pity...for mainstream America that is. The only place you'd hear Ultravox at that time was on college radio, so mainstream America missed out on some amazing music.
Buy it and enjoy the great band Ultravox was.
What makes this track even more remarkable is that it was the original DEMO version sent to Chrysalis that made it onto the album.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RIWF   (1316 words)

  
 ZYNTH ZENTRAAL - ULTRAVOX history pt3
After a legal battle about the name Ultravox the band reenters the music stage.
Tihs is followed up by a live record and after the band gets yet another lineup with Sam Blue and others they release the album "Ingenuity"in 1994.
However, Warren Cann and Chriss Cross has started new carreers so Billy - the only remaining original member - hires Tony Fennelle and they releases the "Revelation" album in 1992.
http://hem.passagen.se/mickeh/uvox/euvox3.html   (88 words)

  
 MusicMoz - Bands and Artists: U: Ultravox: Links
Ultravox - Lyrics - Words to songs listed by album.
Band information and news, forum, chat, lyrics, audio/video clips, discography, gigography, and links.
Sonicnet: Ultravox - Audio clips, links, biography, and reviews.
http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/U/Ultravox/Links   (99 words)

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