ULTRAVOX – U-VOX LP – Nr MINT UK INDIE ELECTRONICA

Ultravox – U-Vox
(Chrysalis Records  1986  CDL1545)
Matrix No’s: A3/B1 – UK Pressing

PVC Printed and Sticker Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
Sleeve & Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Ultravox (formerly known as Ultravox!) are a British new wave band, formed in London in 1974 as Tiger Lily. Between 1980–86, they scored seven Top Ten albums and seventeen Top 40 singles in the UK, the most successful of which was their 1981 hit “Vienna”.

The band has been led by two different frontmen who never played together in the band at the same time. From 1974 until 1979, singer John Foxx was frontman and the main driving force behind Ultravox. Foxx left the band to embark on a solo career and, following his departure, Midge Ure took over as lead singer, guitarist and frontman in 1980 after he and keyboardist Billy Currie worked in the studio project Visage. Ure revitalised the band and steered it to commercial chart success lasting until 1987. Ure left the band in 1987 after establishing his own solo career and the group disbanded for a while.

A new line-up, led by Currie, was formed in 1992, but achieved limited success, with two albums failing to chart and one solitary single reaching 90 in the UK Singles Chart.

The band’s best-known line-up of Currie, Ure, bassist Chris Cross and drummer Warren Cann reformed in 2008 and performed a series of reunion shows in 2009 and 2010 before releasing a new studio album, Brill!ant, in May 2012 which reached 21 in the British Album Charts. In November 2013, Ultravox performed as special guests on a four date UK arena tour with Simple Minds.

U-Vox is the eighth studio album by British new wave band Ultravox, released on 13 October 1986 by Chrysalis Records. It was the band’s fifth album during the Midge Ure era, and the final one featuring the band’s 1979 lineup, with the exception of Warren Cann, for nearly 26 years. The Ure-era lineup would eventually reform in 2008. It was also the last Ultravox album to reach the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number nine.

Track listing

All songs written by Chris Cross, Billy Currie and Midge Ure.

1. “Same Old Story” – 4:38
2. “Sweet Surrender” – 4:34
3. “Dream On” – 4:47
4. “The Prize” – 5:37
5. “All Fall Down” – 5:09
6. “Time to Kill” – 4:26
7. “Moon Madness” – 3:28
8. “Follow Your Heart” – 4:53
9. “All in One Day” – 5:09

Personnel

Ultravox

• Chris Cross – bass, synthesizer, backing vocals
• Billy Currie – keyboards, violin, synthesizer
• Midge Ure – guitar, lead vocals

Guest musicians

• Mark Brzezicki – drums
• Beggar & Co Horns – brass on “Same Old Story”
• Carol Kenyon – backing vocals on “Same Old Story” and “The Prize”
• Kevin Powell – bass on “Sweet Surrender”
• Derek Watkins, Gary Barnacle, John Thirkell, Pete Thoms – brass on “The Prize”
• The Chieftains – featured on “All Fall Down”
• George Martin – arranger and conductor on “All in One Day”