How we made Ultravox's Vienna

‘We were extremely arrogant and a bit too prog rock. We wanted to sound like Elgar and Grieg’First and foremost, we weren’t trying to create a hit song, just an interesting piece of music. Ultravox had been dropped by their label, our management had disappeared and we had to scrape around for money just to get into a rehearsal studio. It was cold and miserable, as all these studios are, with sticky carpets and a smell. And that’s where we wrote Vienna.Continue reading...