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Ultravox
In the latest issue, ahead of the Pet Shop Boys’ stunning singles boxset SMASH, we have a world exclusive career-spanning interview with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe that sees them…
Ultravox – album by album
We take a look through the albums of Ultravox, from their earliest days with John Foxx, to their last record – to date – from 2012… Ultravox!, 1977 First coming…
Midge Ure interview: This means everything to me
In 2018, as Midge Ure hit 65, we talked to the sometime Ultravox frontman… Asked which song casts a shadow over Midge Ure’s life, most people would probably guess at…
Ultravox to release deluxe boxset of Rage In Eden
Following the success of 2020’s deluxe reissue of Vienna, on 30 September Chrysalis Records will release a boxset of Utravox’s second album with Midge Ure, Rage In Eden. Originally released in October 1981,…
Ultravox – The Complete Guide
From their origins as art-rock innovators with John Foxx to their seminal success as synth-pop saviours with Midge Ure, Ultravox may have changed their sound and their line-up but their…
John Foxx: Howling Into The Void
In 1980, John Foxx predicted a terrifying dystopian future with his incredible synthetic masterpiece Metamatic. The future he predicted is now here, and it’s worse – far worse –…
Early Ultravox! concert recording to be released after 44 years
This February, some 44 years after the original lineup of Ultravox! supported their Island Records label mates, Eddie And The Hot Rods at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, Island/UMC…
Making Vienna – Ultravox
John Foxx was out, Midge Ure was in for Ultravox: Vienna… By Mark Lindores Were it not for Ultravox: Vienna sleeve designer Glenn Travis’ bold typography reassuring fans that the…
Classic Pop Issue 62 is on sale now
In Classic Pop Issue 62, we speak to Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill about the madness of Street Fighting Years and how they’re planning to return to their…
Ultravox Interview: ‘We were only two narcissists down but we still had three left’
Wildly inventive, fearlessly experimental and ahead of their time, the first three Ultravox albums cleared a trail that many others would follow. Four of those who were there – John…