Ultravox

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 until 1992 when they briefly re-united and then reformed again in 2008.

Links To Peel
Peel saw the band in the Reading Festival in the late 70's and would play several tracks from their albums between the late 70's and early 80's. He had different opinions of some of their songs, especially on the 15 August 1978 show where Peel mentioned liking the track 'Slow Motion' for the first time and hating it the second, but then liking it again for the third, but finally being undecided for the fourth. After his death, it was found out that he had 12 albums in his Record Collection: U.

Sessions
1. Recorded: 1977-11-21. Broadcast: 28 November 1977
 * My Sex / The Man Who Dies Every Day / Artificial Life / Young Savage

Other Shows Played

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