Biography
A band was formed around 1973 on the initiative of vocalist, songster & keyboardist John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh). It were originally referred to as Tiger Lily, & were comprised of Foxx + Chris Cross (bass guitar), Billy Currie (keyboards/violins), Steve Shears (guitar) and Warren Cann (percussion). the class action freed of these lone within 1974, a handle of "Ain't Misbehaving", before changing their name to Ultravox!, with an exclamation mark (a reference to krautrock band Neu!, produced by Conny Plank, who later produced some Ultravox albums). On the nature and severity of their survive work, it signed to Island Records in 1976, releasing their debut album in Februrary of 1977.

Within green sustaining numerous more elastic which would last in to form Britain's punk and New Wave movements, Ultravox! drew their inspiration from either a art-school side of glam rock, from elastic like Roxy Music and The New York Dolls, plus David Bowie and Brian Eno's early pop albums. Their eponymic debut album was co-by Brian Eno (whose next job after these sessions was working by using Bowie in his Moo album) & Steve Lillywhite. Gross revenue were unsatisfying, & neither a album nor a associated individual The Sex managed to enter a UK stock and index charts.

Ultravox returned later on around 1977 by owning a punkier Ha!-Ha!-Ha!, although sales of both a album & its lead lone "ROckwrok" - which, despite a chorus featuring a lines "Come on, let's tangle in the dark / fuck like a dog, bite like a shark", was played in BBC Radio 1 - were still unimpressive, once more failing to chart. Steve Shears left a b& and indeed a music industry altogether. Although virtually all of a album was dominated by guitars & electrical fiddle, the final track, "Hiroshima Mon Amour", was a prototypic synth-pop song. It remains the critical & fan favorite of the class action's early incarnation, & was performed per class action on the Old Grey Whistle Test. When you took 1978 a class action quietly dropped a exclamation mark, becoming only Ultravox.

Their third album, 1978's Systems of Romance, was recorded under the ear of Conny Plank at his studio in rural Germany & featured fresh guitar player Robin Simon. It besides failed commercially & Island dropped a band. John Foxx left to pursue the solo career when Robin Simon left to join Magazine. Musically, a album was super similar to Ultravox's subsequent act, bringing synthesisers to the forefront of the class action's healthy. Island freed a compilation of highlights from either the class action's 1st 3 albums within 1979, Three Into One, which was until a mid-1990s the virtually all far flung of Ultravox's early releases.

Midge Ure, an already accomplished musician, asked to join the band. He experienced achieved minor profits by using semi-glam outfit Slik and Glen Matlock's more punk-inspired The Rich Kids, although in 1979 he was temporarily swimming using tough rock band Thin Lizzy. Midge Ure & Billy Currie got met in the Visage project, a band fronted by Steve Strange. Midge so replaced John Foxx for their next album, which would turn into their virtually all successful up to now; when sustaining Systems of Romance, it was produced within Germany by Conny Plank.

A band freed a album Vienna on the new label Chrysalis Records and achieved a material hit using a title track (inspired by Carol Reed's The Third Man), which was accompanied with the distinctive streaming video. It topped retired at total 2 (Joe Dolce's "Shaddap You Face" infamously saved it from either a top spot) on the UK top xl inside 1981. A album reached blunt 5, & was before long followed per dour Rage inside Eden, a band giving to Conny Plank's studio for what turned dead set become the hard recording session.

Ultravox team by using legendary producer George Martin for 1982's Quartet and this became their most successful album in the USA. A class action appeared at Live Aid.

Upon completion of 1984's Lament, Warren Cann left Ultravox to pursue a solo career, & a left members, along using Big Country's Mark Brzezicki, resurfaced with U-Vox in 1986 before going their separate ways. Billy Currie & Robaround Simon reformed a band in 1993 to record Revelation and Marcus O'Higgins lent his voice to their final release, Ingenuity (1996).

Discography
Albums
Ultravox! (1977) Ha! Ha! Ha! (1977) Systems of Romance (1978) Three Into Of these (1979) Vienna (1980) Rage around Eden (1981) Quartet (1982) Monument (1983) Lament (1984) The Collection (1984) [Comp] U-VOX (1986) Revelation (1993) Ingenuity (1996) The Island Years (1999) [Comp]

Singles and EPs
Dangerous Rhythm (1977) Young Savage (1977) Rockwrok (1977) Retro Survive EP (1978) Slow Motion (1978) Quiet Human (1978) Sleepwalk (1980) Passing Alien (1980) Vienna (1981) All Stood However (1981) The Thinly Wall (1981) The Voice (1981) Reap a Untamed Wind (1982) Hymn (1982) Visions within Blue (1983) We Come to Dance (1983) One Little Day (1984) Dancing sustaining Tears within The Eyes (1984) Lament(1984) Love's Nifty Adventure (1984) Same Old Story (1986) All Fall Down (1986 All around A single Day (1987)