Ultravox  (English, Paperback, Source Wikipedia)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Ultravox albums, Ultravox members, Ultravox songs, John Foxx, Midge Ure, Vienna, Warren Cann, Robin Simon, Billy Currie, Systems of Romance, Ha -Ha -Ha , Chris Cross, Dancing with Tears in My Eyes, Rage in Eden, Tiger Lily, Stevie Shears, Ultravox , Sam Blue, U-Vox, Mark Brzezicki, Quartet, Young Savage, Lament, ROckWrok, The Thin Wall, Hymn, Visions in Blue, Love's Great Adventure, Vinny Burns, We Came to Dance, All Fall Down, One Small Day, The Voice, Passing Strangers, Sleepwalk, All Stood Still, Revelation, Quirks, Reap the Wild Wind, Quiet Men, Ingenuity, Frozen Ones, Heart of the Country, All in One Day, Same Old Story. Excerpt: John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh) is an English singer, artist, photographer and teacher. He was the original lead singer of the band Ultravox before being replaced by Midge Ure, when he left to embark on a solo career in 1979. Primarily associated with electronic synthesiser music, he has also pursued a parallel career in graphic design and education. Foxx was born in Chorley, Lancashire. His father was a coal miner and pugilist, his mother a millworker. He attended St Mary's Primary and St Augustine's Secondary schools. During his youth in the 1960s he embraced the lifestyle of a mod and a hippy. He experimented with tape recorders and synthesisers while on a scholarship at the Royal College of Art in London. His first band, formed whilst at art college in Preston, was called Woolly Fish. Prior to 1973, he was singing and playing a 12 string guitar, and occasionally supported Stack Waddy in Manchester, from where he later moved to London in order to escape what he saw as a lack of musical stimulus. In 1973 he formed a band that would eventually be called Tiger Lily, comprising initially bassist Chris St. John (real name: Christopher Thomas Allen) and guitarist Stevie Shears, with Canadia...