Way way ahead of their time! no one sounds this way in 77! Still amazing… ! John Foxx wrote one of the best lyrics in the history of rock and pop music!
It's ridiculous how underrated this band is. I found them through my brother in the next room. Roxy, Big Youth and then this. Oh i found my music and it was called ULTRAVOX
Loved the John Foxx led Ultravox! In 1999 I was lucky enough to have been invited onto the bus with John and Louis Gordon for the "Subterranean Tour". The atmosphere, in particular at the Glasgow Barrowlands, Manchester Apollo and Shepherds Bush Empire was more akin to a football crowd. He's loved. Massive cheers met "Just for a Moment", "My Sex" and "The Man Who Dies Everyday". At the end of tour party in West London, John played some of his songs on a piano in the hotel lobby. Extremely talented and genuinely friendly gentleman 🧡
I listened to it live that night and taped it and had it on my Walkman at school and I'm 59 in July where did the time go great to hear it again and bring back so many memories thanks
I think it's an RMI organ, he didn't have a polysynth until later. He's doing the solos on the ARP Odyssey and the high sustained string sounds in an Ella, Rhapsody)?).
The chime at the very end of My Sex is so important. There's also a great Huddersfield Poly version where the crowd clap along at the end 'getting' it. I saw them supporting Eddie and the Hot Rods at Norwich St Andrews Hall around this time and loved them. John Foxx wore the full length leather coat from the front of the Ultravox! album.
Here after hearing singer/musician Gary Numan ("Cars") in a number of different interviews where he declares Ultravox's "synth-electronic, pop music" as a big influence in his career.
Yet tons of people say he's a Bowie or Kraftwerk knock-off. Phhht. He never sounded at all like Kraftwerk, and he was a big fan of Bolan, but not Bowie. The Ultravox! influence is pretty clear up through Replicas, after that I no longer hear it.
Way way ahead of their time! no one sounds this way in 77! Still amazing… ! John Foxx wrote one of the best lyrics in the history of rock and pop music!
This is fantastic! Sounds like Vanda and Young, of Flash and The Pan, were listening also. I hear a lot of this style in their debut LP.
Never been anyone like them and never again will we hear such innovative, raw and beautiful music. It's just ridiculous how ground breaking they were
It's ridiculous how underrated this band is. I found them through my brother in the next room. Roxy, Big Youth and then this. Oh i found my music and it was called ULTRAVOX
Loved the John Foxx led Ultravox! In 1999 I was lucky enough to have been invited onto the bus with John and Louis Gordon for the "Subterranean Tour". The atmosphere, in particular at the Glasgow Barrowlands, Manchester Apollo and Shepherds Bush Empire was more akin to a football crowd. He's loved. Massive cheers met "Just for a Moment", "My Sex" and "The Man Who Dies Everyday". At the end of tour party in West London, John played some of his songs on a piano in the hotel lobby.
Extremely talented and genuinely friendly gentleman 🧡
He can play the piano well?
@@rachelar Hi Rachel. Yes, very well.
Concert pianist level I would venture 🧡
I listened to it live that night and taped it and had it on my Walkman at school and I'm 59 in July where did the time go great to hear it again and bring back so many memories thanks
UltraFoxx! ♥️♥️♥️
Vulture Ox!
Without listening to this it's a guarantee to be bloody brilliant😉
Superb!
Such an amazing band!
I remember taping this off the radio😊😊 all those years ago when I was 15. Now 61 and still love them. 😊
Chris Cross - bass, synthesisers, backing vocals
John Foxx - lead vocals
Stevie Shears - guitar
Warren Cann - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Billy Currie - keyboards, viola, violin, synthesisers
Best version of "My Sex", period. Billy's synth is fire! This one should've been the original.
I think it's an RMI organ, he didn't have a polysynth until later. He's doing the solos on the ARP Odyssey and the high sustained string sounds in an Ella, Rhapsody)?).
Oh and massive thanks vibracobra... Legend!!
One word BRILLIANT
The chime at the very end of My Sex is so important. There's also a great Huddersfield Poly version where the crowd clap along at the end 'getting' it. I saw them supporting Eddie and the Hot Rods at Norwich St Andrews Hall around this time and loved them. John Foxx wore the full length leather coat from the front of the Ultravox! album.
Here after hearing singer/musician Gary Numan ("Cars") in a number of different interviews where he declares Ultravox's "synth-electronic, pop music" as a big influence in his career.
Yet tons of people say he's a Bowie or Kraftwerk knock-off. Phhht. He never sounded at all like Kraftwerk, and he was a big fan of Bolan, but not Bowie. The Ultravox! influence is pretty clear up through Replicas, after that I no longer hear it.
Got the first LP in '79 and love it! Never heard the Peel Sessions until now.. This is outstanding and very refreshing!
The original line up of Ultravox and the John Peel show. Both huge for me as a kid. Thanks for posting this awesome session 👍
I wonder how many know to whom you're referring with your nickname here.
Another total peel gem!!
😀😀😀😀😀😀YOU CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH OF JOHN FOXX!!!😀😀😀😀😀😀
😀😀😀😀😀😀THANKS FOR UPLOADING THIS!!! I WASN'T AWARE THAT JOHN FOXX HAD DONE A PEEL SESSION!!!😀😀😀😀😀😀
😀😀😀😀😀😀I CAN FEEL THE FEAR IN THE WESTERN WORLD!!! AND I AM GOING TO BLOODY DO IT ANYWAY!!!😀😀😀😀😀😀
Thanks mate. Never got to hear this. Absolutely thrilling
The man who dies every day
Young Savage!!!!
" You always played that phony pack of cards without an ace "
Read this just has he sang it. Weird or what?
On fire, the Ure lineup never readhed these heights
Great version
Amazing!! Thank you 🙏🏼
If anyone needed proof that this band was actually good at one time, well hear --- here it is !
PRESSUREWORKS I always considered them two different bands and both brilliant in their way.
More than one time only
@@rachelar they needed first to be good at one time. Then proceed. Mr Anorak.
John Foxx uvox-punk/synth.midge ure uvox-metal/synth.both great bands!
great punk music
I'm tempted to say this means nothing to me! but i'd be lying
Hahahaha!!
@@MrMrwazHa! Ha! Ha! Surely
Hahaha!