Origin: London, England
Genre(s): New Wave, Synthpop, New Romantic
Years Active: 1976-1988, 1992-1996
Website: www.ultravox.org.uk
Members: Midge Ure, Chris Cross, Billy Currie, Warren Cann
Ultravox are a British New Wave band that rose to prominence in the late 1970s/early 1980s. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s. The band was particularly associated with the New Romantic movement, although it both pre- and post-dated New Romanticism by several years. They are arguably best known for the song Reap the Wild Wind in the United States and Vienna elsewhere.
This band had two major periods (1973 to 1979, and 1980 to 1986) in which it was, literally, "managed" by two different band leaders, who were never in the band together. In the first period the frontman was John Foxx, now a successful electronic musician, who oriented the band to experimental sounds and changes of styles (glam, punk, industrial, synthpop, art) until 1979, when he decided to quit to become a soloist and dedicate to electronic and synthpop music; in the second period, Midge Ure was the frontman, and who oriented, along with Billy Currie, the band to a more pop and electronic sound and a commercial success, until 1988, when the group decided to disband. A third major period existed, from around 1992 to 1996, being Billy Currie, the only member who remained in Ultravox since the beginnings, who oriented the band, but with new members but without any success.
Ultravox's Chart Position's In The U.K.
Singles Pos.
Vienna 2
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 3
All Stood Still 8
Hymn 11
Love's Great Adventure 12
Reap The Wild Wind 12
The Thin Wall 14
Visions In Blue 15
The Voice 16
We Came To Dance 18
Lament 22
One Small Day 27
Sleepwalk 29
All Fall Down 30
Same Old Story 31
Slow Motion 33
