This page is for those of you who continue to celebrate the music of Ultravox. Their official website, Ultravox.org, has been up for 10 years, which testifies to the band’s popularity. Go and poke around - they’ve added a chat room and have pdf files of all 20 fanzines available for download. Very cool!
FYI, Vienna and Rage in Eden have been re-released and remastered. Vienna is costly, but considering it’s the debut of Ultravox with Midge Ure, it’s a must-have. Personally, I prefer Rage in Eden. It helped to change my musical tastes forever.
The first time I saw or heard Ultravox, I was in Florida, visiting a friend, who had MTV on the tube. When “The Voice” video came on, everyone in the room stopped talking to watch it. The visual art was stunning, unlike other stuff being produced at the time. It was mind blowing, New Wave (Old School) at its finest.
John Foxx: In a word, wow. Early Ultravox fans can find John Foxx’s website at Metamatic.org. I’ve included videos from his time as lead singer because I love both incarnations of the band. Wonderful stuff. See my post: “The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned” (1-19-08). Scroll down to see John Foxx videos. A uniquely talented artist!
For your pleasure…
Here are a selection of videos, most of them on YouTube. Enjoy!
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Ultravox, with Midge Ure
Vienna 1980
Vienna, LIVE (rare)
Passing Strangers 1980
Astradyne 1980
Sleepwalk 1980
Reap the Wild Wind 1982 (LIVE)
The Voice 1981
The Thin Wall 1981
Hymn 1982
Mine For Life (LIVE) 1982
Mine for Life (Old Grey Whistle Test) April 1982
We Came to Dance 1983 (great a/v on this one)
Visions in Blue (banned in the UK) 1983
Thanx to HeBen.
New Europeans 1983
Dancing, With Tears in My Eyes 1984
Lament 1984
Dancing…Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, 1985
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John Foxx (Solo / with Ultravox)
Young Savage - John Foxx and Ultravox 1977
Wide Boys- John Foxx w/Ultravox live
I Won’t Play Your Game (German TV) 1978
Hiroshima, Mon Amour John Foxx (live in Milan)
Slow Motion - John Foxx & Ultravox (on Old Grey Whistle Test)
Dangerous Rhythm - John Foxx & Ultravox 1978
The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned - John Foxx & Ultravox 1978
Quiet Men- John Foxx & Ultravox (live)
Underpass- John Foxx (B&W version)
He’s a Liquid - John Foxx solo, 1980 (Thx to anTONYM2M2)
No One Driving - John Foxx (Thx to secondhanddaylight)
Euorope After the Rain - John Foxx Solo 1981
Endlessly (Promo video) - John Foxx
The Hidden Man- John Foxx Live on Spanish TV 1983
Twilight’s Last Gleaming - John Foxx Live on Spanish TV 1983
Stars on Fire John Foxx - (short promo clip) 1985
Burning Car John Foxx - (Live TV) 1998
John Foxx - My Sex - (RARE, Live 2003: Foxx does this early Ultravox song as encore to LaScala gig. Thx to CoZzMiX )
John Foxx - Cathedral Oceans DVD (Track 10) (recent material)
Thx to karborn
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I hope you’ve enjoyed these videos. A huge thanks to all who uploaded their collections to YouTube so I and others like me can link to them. If I didn’t mention your name, please forgive me. I will add it, just leave a comment. :)
~ Morgan (page and links updated 3-20-08)
hi morgan,
my friend james, an expat aussie living in london, interviewed john foxx recently. you can find it here if you are interested http://goingdeafforaliving.blogspot.com/ i haven’t followed johns career at all since he left ultravox but was quite enlightened after reading james’s interview.
you will also find an interview he did with nick cave when they were both home in australia in december 2006. hope you like it.
kind regards
debra
By: debra on May 30, 2008
at 5:13 am
Thanks very much, Debra. Your friend James is a wonderful writer; I appreciate you pointing me toward his blog.
John Foxx is a unique talent, an intelligent man with a long-range artistic vision. He’s right not to partcipate in Eighties tributes that tend to eulogize music from that era as if it were frozen in time and space.
Music is a continuum, a specific mode of artistic expression and form that is elastic and evolving: it builds upon or destroys what came before and influences what comes after, both artistically and culturally. Sometimes culture shifts are influenced by music (as were the Sixties protest and antiwar movements); but oftentimes music itself becomes the agitating force that provokes the cultural shift (as with Elvis in America and Punk in Britain).
I’ll check out James’ interview with Nick Cave in a bit. Thank again for the comments and link.
Yours,
Morgan
By: Morgan Wolf on May 31, 2008
at 1:37 pm
Morgan's Musings offers uncensored observations on a wide variety of topics in culture and society. *Mature Content*
Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum. (Without music, life would be a mistake.)
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
