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Foxx subsequently signed to Virgin Records and released his album Metamatic in January 1980. By this time, Billy Currie had been recruited by the rising star Gary Numan in 1979 to do a performance at The Old Grey Whistle Test show with his band Tubeway Army. Numan had been a fan of Ultravox and Currie was also asked to play on Numan's début solo album, The Pleasure Principle, and its subsequent tour. Warren Cann went to work for Zaine Griff, while Chris Cross did some shows with James Honeyman-Scott (of The Pretenders) and Barrie Masters (from Eddie and the Hot Rods). Quartet was Ultravox’s third album with Midge Ure on vocals, which followed two hugely successful albums, “Vienna” and “Rage In Eden”. On 6 November 2008 the official announcement came: Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie and Midge Ure reformed Ultravox again, for a 15-date UK tour in April 2009, entitled "Return to Eden". [18] This would be the first time the classic line-up of the band had performed together since Live Aid in 1985. The first show was played at Edinburgh Playhouse 10 April 2009. Great that this is coming. Looking forward to the remix of this one, as I always found the original mix a bit thin. And a full 1982 concert at last!

Filename Z:\OdW\Ultravox\2010 - Return To Eden (C2DV1011)\CD1\Ultravox - Return To Eden (C2DV1011) CD1.wav News". Ultravox.org.uk. Archived from the original on 29 January 2009 . Retrieved 30 December 2014. This new 2023 Stereo Mix has been undertaken by renowned musician and producer Steven Wilson, along with it an exclusive to this release, his instrumental mixes of the album.

Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped, etched. variant 4): CDL 1394 B // 3 ▽ 420 P 1 1 1 3 CDL 1394 B-3 John Foxx and Ultravox!". Mojo. September 2006. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014 . Retrieved 25 December 2014. LP1 - Quartet: Original 1982 Analog Master: Reap The Wild Wind / Serenade / Mine For Life / Hymn / Visions In Blue / When The Scream Subsides / We Came To Dance / Cut And Run / The Song (We Go) Now, I haven't listened to them yet, but just because they have been remastered, they would technically not be unreleased then, as the exact same live performance was issued before. Most of the album that would become Vienna was ready to record by the time Ultravox signed a new record deal with Chrysalis Records. Vienna, heralded a major change of direction and would become their most successful to date, far surpassing any of the previous Ultravox (or Foxx) albums. As with Systems of Romance, it was produced by Conny Plank.

After three albums produced by Conny Plank, Ultravox dropped their longtime producer. Vocalist/guitarist Midge Ure explained, "It was getting a bit safe. We knew if we recorded with him again it would be great and we'd be really happy. But there would be no excitement." [5]It was done at probably the highest level we’d ever worked at. I wasn’t disappointed with the album but I was very disappointed with a certain element that criticised us for using George Martin. They completely misunderstood. They saw it as being safe and conservative and thought we’d sold out by going dull and commercial and we just scratched our heads at that." There is a 'kind of' live version of Serenade on YouTube, it's from a TV show and is live vocals over the album recording music, i think the program was called 'Getting set' or something like that. Ankeny, Jason. "Ultravox | Music Biography, Streaming Radio and Discography | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 25 December 2014.

The band undertook a major world tour, the Monument Tour, which was recorded and released as a live LP and video in 1983, which also reached the UK top ten. Not at Hammersmith in '82 at any rate. I can't recall Serenade ever being played live (could be wrong) and WCTD wasn't a live staple until Set Movements in '84. The keyboards/pianos are razor sharp, as are the vocals - not only Midge's but frankly, it's more obvious here that the other boys were filling in quite a lot. There iscrowd noise and i does not sound like a studio take at all, it is very live indeed, but where Monument is monumentally :) reverbarting the crowd, and not like you were in the crowd, cause that would sound specifically different, but the new mastering rather delivers what believably is how the music actually sounded, with all quirks present, apart from a staggering and thunderous meltpot experience, maybe?Ultravox (earlier styled as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in April 1974 as Tiger Lily. Between 1980 and 1986, they scored seven Top Ten albums and seventeen Top 40 singles in the UK, the most successful of which was their 1981 hit " Vienna". Filename Z:\OdW\Ultravox\2010 - Return To Eden (C2DV1011)\CD2\Ultravox - Return To Eden (C2DV1011) CD2.wav