I rolled it out saying to the band, ‘What about this, then?’ and began the ‘Vienna’ rhythm.”īillie Currie remembered in an interview with Mojo magazine, “We were all being very arty, discussing the composer Max Reger, and Midge walked up and said in his Glaswegian accent, ‘This means nothing to me,’ and turned away. I had a drum machine/synth pad pattern in mind that I’d wanted to do. Cann, the band’s drummer recalled, “The song came together very quickly. Vienna was co-written by all members of the band who were, in addition to Ure, Chris Cross, Billie Currie and Warren Cann. He joined Ultravox in the spring of 1979 and they signed a new deal with Chrysalis records and the hits started coming beginning with Sleepwalk and Passing Strangers. Ure had been a member of the chart-topping Scottish teeny-bop outfit Slik, before teaming up with Rusty Egan and the former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock in The Rich Kids. However the arrival of Midge Ure heralded an unlikely revival of fortunes. Ultravox began in the mid-seventies with John Foxx as their lead singer, but when Foxx left in 1979 and they were dropped by their record company, Island, the future looked bleak. But the fact that Vienna stayed where it did for such a long time and it outsold both records – it elevated the band from cult status, playing the college unions, up to where we could play Crystal Palace or Wembley, which was great.” It was such a bizarre scenario where you went from the sublime to the ridiculous and both kept us off number One. People tend to forget that John Lennon was shot at the same time and Imagine and Woman went to Number One as well. When Midge Ure, Ultavox’s lead singer, was asked recently if it still irked him, he replied, “No. There have been worst crimes, but novelty records have a tendency to do that, because, by definition, that’s what they are and people generally love novelty. A highlight for any visit to Vienna.Whenever there is talk about songs that were kept off number one in the chart, almost always, the most famous is generally cited as Vienna by Ultravox, which was kept off the top by Joe Dolce’s Shaddup You Face.
It's really quite something to be right in the middle of history.an absolutely unforgettable experience. Right in front of the church is a large circular enclosure (for lack of better verbiage), which entombs all of Austria's former presidents. The church on the grounds was designed by Klimt and it is masterful - standing in silence looking up at his depiction of the sky in the central dome is nothing short of spectacular. What I did learn from our most awesome tour guide is that there is a TON of history related to the Cemetery: how it came to be, what it is now, and how it has evolved over history. It had always been a bucket list item of mine to pay my respects.and now that I have, the feeling of sheer awe and elation still resonates with me. I was just blown away to be in the presence in the spirit of such musical behemoths. In one spot, some of the biggest names in music are in their final respective resting places: Brahms, Strauss, Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven. Nothing could prepare me for what I experienced. On a private tour of Vienna, I requested that we detour to the Central Cemetery, as my family are huge classical music fans.
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