I am a music lover of the 70s and 80s, Ultravox is a group of revolutionaries who turned the directions of punk rock and became the ancestor of the culture of music, I love ULTRAVOX and listen to it with pleasure so far and I am 65 years old ...
An absolute phenomenal classic from the electro synth era early eighties. Beautifuly haunting and poignant it brings back the memories of my younger days. Wonderful wonderful wonderful. 🙏❤🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤🙏💎💎💎
Maybe it's just me, but I don't feel he's ever really got the credit he deserved as a vocalist, in the UK. The notes in this song are so hard and he hits them with every live performance I've watched on RU-vid.
Vienna is still my all-time favourite song by Ultravox soon as I hear it on the telly or the radio I turn it up full boar, it still gives me the goosebumps this song! just love it!❤❤❤
Absolutely classic. One of the most beautiful melodies I heard from the past century. I never was a techno music fan but when you've got a strong tune, no matter how style you put it in, it will be great anyway.
Just everything! This song is amazing and always has been. What a great early version, from the ways he works the microphone to that crazy finger work on the piano. Midge Ure is a smooth human 😍
And SO difficult to switch back and forth. Violin 🎻 must be perfectly in tune or intonation is a freakin’ nightmare. The volume must also be loud enough to the player to make sure the notes are in tune. Billy was the best. That violin part should’ve really been much longer, a bridge..
If i won millions on the lottery.....i would gladly spend it on getting these guys back together for a one off special concert performing in my garden on a bontempi special!!! Well worth the cash.
Creo que soy la única de mi generación que conoce y ama este tema. No sé que tiene esta canción que me estremece poniendome la piel de gallina cuando escucho esos violines mezclados con el piano.
Es una de las mejores canciones de su estilo. Quizá la mejor. Yo nací dos años después de su publicación y la he oido y amado desde siempre. Cuando niña y adolescente era una fan loca de las canciones de los 80, hoy, ya adulta, muchas de esas canciones me parecen horribles, pero Vienna me gustará hasta el día que me muera.
+drsnypejsek must been a bitch with this old equip. just saw a a 2 year old docu on Conny Plank and his son Stefan said that many adjustments and gadgets were assembled to make all this tech work circa 1980/81. amazing that it did work mostly but complicated with the eras limitations.
Not short lived at all? it stayed in the charts for ages, though unfortunately just kept off number 1. It's a very very famous song and the band were pretty big back then.
Recently went to an A-ha concert in Germany and felt the same way. The audience just sat there but I got up and moved-how can you not. The same with Ultravox-they strike something visceral in me.
My other half is Eastern European, try explaining Ultravox, Gary Numan, U2, John Foxx, Human League and OMD I WANT SOOOOOOOOO Much to take her to a concert of one of these groups lol....ps let me know.
Fantastic performance...do you know the date it was broadcasted?. I am a great Ultravox fan and i am collecting all of their TV performances and this one is VERY RARE...
+Vincent de Guard I nearly fucking choked to death laughing at the daft sod!! Fair enough this was 35 years ago but seriously, dressing like that required some balls, a bet or a shit load of stupidity!
This looks to be 100% live to me. Regarding the violin solo, Billy Currie picks up the violin just before he plays the solo, and Midge Ure fills in on keyboards. At the end of the solo, Currie has a couple bars to hand the violin to an assistant, and he resumes playing keyboards. It's almost possible to see in this video, but if you watch Ultravox's performance at Live Aid, the violin hand off is well documented.
I think the crowd is dead inside! 😒...Why aren't they moving at all?! 🤨 I'm alive inside when I hear Vienna, so I don't know what kind of sedatives they took or why they hate extremely beautiful music? 🤷♀️ 🤷 🤷♂️
