“It was too long, too slow, too boring and it had a viola solo... It was the antithesis of a single”: Midge Ure talks us through the making of Ultravox’s iconic Vienna

Vienna.

If you ventured outside right now and asked a random person on the street to name you an Ultravox song, you can bet your bottom dollar that (if they're not too startled) they’ll say Vienna.

Ultravox's 1981 single is not just the group’s most recognisable cut, but has become one of the most beloved tracks of the 1980s. It was also the proof that Ultravox had much more to give after the departure of its foundational mega-mind, John Foxx.