Items from Ultravox’s Live Aid performance nearly 40 years ago are to go under the hammer. Bass player Chris Cross’s guitar from the Wembley concert, his Live Aid security pass, ticket stub and ...

Still connected to his Visage and Ultravox classics, along with his extensive solo catalog of songs, the enigma of Ure’s socio and political songwriting is in its “lovely” delivery. “Music should be ...

Midge Ure has been playing music professionally for more than 50 years, so hitting the studio or going on the road for a North American tour at age 70 is as natural as “blinking or breathing.” “At the ...

The film of the Hot Rods show catches the nature of their audience. Long-ish hair, denim, male – not punk, not tribal, nothing to do with fashion. The band's set drew heavily from Teenage Depression ...

The Collection featured 14 singles from Ultravox’s run of Chrysalis Records releases—Vienna (1980), Rage in Eden (1981), the George Martin-produced Quartet (1982), and Lament (1984)—and sold more than ...

Midge Ure has led tributes to his Ultravox bandmate and ‘Vienna’ co-writer, Chris Cross, who has died aged 71.The new wave group’s bassist – whose real surname was Allen - sadly passed away on March..

On Ultravox’s seventh album – the fourth of the Midge Ure era – the quartet continued pondering the question of how to avoid diminishing returns after the all-conquering Vienna. Billy Currie had been ...