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Maxwell Hall, Civic Centre, Market Square, Aylesbury

 

Saturday October 14th 1978

 

Ultravox!

Doll by Doll    Heartbeat

John Foxx Billy Currie Chris Cross Warren Cann Robin Simon

 

   

   

 

Ultravox were such an influence on the young Gary Numan that when he toured The Pleasure Principle in 1979 (including Friars), he borrowed Billy Currie for his band.

 

After John Foxx left to pursue a solo career (Underpass, No One Driving etc), and Robin Simon had also gone, the remaining core three employed a Scotsman called James 'Midge' Ure. His pedigree had been The Rich Kids and...er...Slik. They went on to be huge and in a last throw of the dice, they put out Vienna as a single and the rest is history. Ultravox ended in acrimony though. Ure is still a successful solo artiste. Billy Currie is a solo artiste and also toured as U-Vox. Chris (Cross) St John is now a psychotherapist. Cann is living back in the US.

The Ure/Cross/Currie/Cann line up reunited for the first time in 25 years in 2009 for a UK tour and continues into 2010.

 

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