Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind

Interprète: Ultravox

Titre: Reap The Wild Wind

Année: 1983

Billboard: #27

Ultravox est un groupe britannique de pop électronique/new wave fondé en 1973 par John Foxx avec Chris Cross (de son vrai nom Christopher Allen) à la basse et Stevie Shears à la guitare, rejoint l'année suivante par Warren Cann à la batterie et Billy Currie aux claviers et au violon. Le groupe s'appelle alors Tiger Lily et changera son nom en Ultravox en 1976.

Inspirés par le glam rock et le punk, le groupe développe un son qui influencera la scène new wave, notamment Gary Numan. Avec l'arrivée de Midge Ure en 1979, en remplacement de John Foxx, Ultravox prend de l'ampleur et obtient plusieurs succès (comme Vienna, Hymn ou Dancing with Tears in My Eyes) jusqu'à sa séparation en 1988.

Entre 1992 et 1996 Billy Currie relance Ultravox avec de tout nouveaux musiciens et enregistre deux albums studio mais sans obtenir de succès.

En 2008 Ultravox se reforme avec cette fois Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Chris Cross et Warren Cann. Après une tournée en 2009 et la publication d'un album live, le groupe sort un nouvel album studio en 2012.

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, with the three remaining members in hiatus, 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 success lasting until the mid-1980s. 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 little success.

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. In November 2013, Ultravox performed as special guests on a four date UK arena tour with Simple Minds.