“Visions in Blue” by Ultravox

Ultravox cut "Visions in Blue" for Quartet, their 1982 album, at AIR Studios on Montserrat, with George Martin producing and Geoff Emerick engineering, and the writing credit is split four ways between Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann. Chrysalis put it out in March 1983 as the album's third single, and it climbed to number 15 in Britain.

It's electronic pop at its most grand and brooding, and it split the pop press down the middle: one Smash Hits reviewer heard the band at their most polished, another heard nothing but a dirge. The video had troubles of its own. The BBC and MTV banned it over a moment of nudity, and an edited version was later supplied to Top of the Pops. A live take surfaced afterwards on the CD edition of Monument, the band's 1983 concert album.

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