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BIZARRE: Ultravox - What They Never Told You

“We had no money, no management, and we’d been dropped by the label. But when we plugged in and played, it was the most magnificent thing”: Midge Ure’s prog moments with Ultravox, Robert Fripp, Kate Bush, Jethro Tull and, indirectly, Steven Wilson

Taking the same attitude to keyboards that he’d first taken to guitar, he regards his best 80s work as “synth prog” – and it’s difficult to disagree

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“It was too long, too slow, too boring and it had a viola solo... It was the antithesis of a single”: Midge Ure talks us through the making of Ultravox’s iconic Vienna

Ultravox’s stately powerhouse was an unlikely hit single - but its classically-inspired uniqueness was key

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“We're all fragile little creatures. You sit down, lick your wounds and think - is there any point in going through this whole process again?”: We speak to Midge Ure

Midge Ure reflects on fame, resilience and reinvention as he returns with new music and a cinematic live touring experience

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Midge Ure announces new album A Man Of Two Worlds and releases lead single Just Words

Ultravox icon will launch 21-date tour when the half-instrumental LP arrives on May 8

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“Originally a career-staller, this version really is essential”: Ultravox’s The Collection – Deluxe Edition

Revisited with deep attention to detail, Midge Ure and co’s imperial phase reissue is a genuine audio-visual banquet

Louder

Ultravox will release a Deluxe Edition of The Collection in December, featuring new Steven Wilson remixes

Ultravox also share video for new reconstruction version of Love's Great Adventure

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Midge Ure Health Update: Why Did The Ultravox Singer Cancel His Tour?

The 71-year-old singer cancels European and Australian shows for urgent medical treatment, prioritising health over upcoming performances.

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Midge Ure postpones upcoming tour dates due to urgent health treatment

In an announcement that has shocked his fans, Midge Ure has said it is with “great sadness and difficulty” he is postponing upcoming tour dates due to urgent treatment for a health issue discovered during a routine medical check-up.

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Bob Geldof receives special Official Charts award for Just For One Day - the Live Aid Musical album

Bob Geldof has been recognised for the chart achievements of the artists that contributed to the Live Aid musical.

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Midge Ure on reinvention, legacy and the Brexit backlash

IT would be fair to describe Midge Ure as a music legend. Born in Cambuslang, he joined the Glasgow band Stumble in 1969

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“Everyone says Vienna was an electronic track, but it’s mainly piano, violin and viola. Those strange combinations made us what we were”: You may think Ultravox were a synth-pop band. They know they were prog

Midge Ure and Billy Currie aimed to create timeless music by crossing previously-closed musical borders – and they argue that their biggest hit worked because of human imperfections rather than digital precision

Louder

Bob Geldof quips he gets 'blue in the face' listening to 'f***ing Freddie Mercury' at Live Aid

The Live Aid co-founder was promoting the new album, 'Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical (Original Cast Recording)', which sees hits by Queen, David Bowie, Sir Elton John, U2, The Police, Madonna and more reimagined by the show's cast.

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‘We created a monster’: Midge Ure reflects on Live Aid as musical heads to West End

Ahead of a London theatre run in May, Ultravox singer says 1985 charity gig probably couldn’t happen today because of low attention spans

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“Phil Lynott said, ‘Gary Moore is out the band. Could you come over tomorrow?’ My initial reaction was, ’I’m not the guy you should be asking’”: When Midge Ure joined Thin Lizzy on a make-or-break US tour, he had just one day’s notice and no rehearsals

The Live Aid orchestrator and Ultravox synth-pop pioneer looks back at his trial by fire with Thin Lizzy, swapping out his Yamaha electric because it wasn’t cool enough, refusing to join the Sex Pistols, and how The Edge might have changed Band Aid’s charity single

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“Digital is obedient, which is useful in certain circumstances, but analogue misbehaves and that wildness is appealing”: John Foxx on spearheading the synthpop movement and the anniversary of Metamatic

“Digital is obedient, which is useful in certain circumstances, but analogue misbehaves and that wildness is appealing”

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“Lavish yet controlled angst… for what was then considered regular pop music, it’s fearlessly miserable”: Ultravox’s 40th anniversary edition of Lament

Classy reissue package includes contributions from Steven Wilson and Moby, plus live show that proves they could deliver on stage too

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Midge Ure Continues To Honor Ultravox's Legacy Through Music.

Explore Midge Ure's impactful journey from Ultravox to solo success, honoring synthpop legacy through innovative live performances.

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Steven Wilson remixes Ultravox's 1984 album Lament

Ultravox will release eight-disc 40th anniversary deluxe box set of Lament in Septmber

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"Spandau Ballet, Visage, Ultravox… there's some good music going down": In 1981, Rush's Geddy Lee was ready to blow the boundaries of progressive rock wide open

From Led Zeppelin copyists to sword and sorcery maestros to purveyors of über-prog, Rush have always pushed the envelope

Guitar World

“You were the glue that held the band together. You were the logic in the madness and the madness in our lives”: Ultravox bassist and Vienna co-writer Chris Cross dies at 71

The bassist helped found the UK new-wave band and co-wrote their biggest hit

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"You were the glue that held the band together": Ultravox bass player and Vienna co-writer Chris Cross dies aged 71

Chris played bass and co-wrote many hits in various lineups of the band stretching back 50 years

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Ultravox bassist Chris Cross has died, aged 71

Ultrabox bandmate Mide Ure hails Cross as "the glue that held the band together"

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"It should eventually end up in a museum": The true story behind Hans Zimmer and his giant Moog is even more extraordinary than the original photo of them together, and it turns out the monster modular could be the most important synth ever made

The real story is about who owned the synth originally (and that we've unearthed some more cracking shots of it)

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"It was the machine that made electronic music accessible": The 5 vintage synths that gave us synth-pop

These are the machines that rocked the 1970s and popped the 1980s.

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