“Everyone says Vienna was an electronic track, but it’s mainly piano, violin and viola. Those strange combinations made us what we were”: You may think Ultravox were a synth-pop band. They know they were prog

Ultravox.

In 2020 Ultravox released a box set to mark the 40th anniversary of their breakthrough album Vienna. While they’re often regarded as one of the leading lights of 80s synth pop, Midge Ure and Billy Currie took the opportunity to explain why they always regarded themselves as closer to prog than new romantic.

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