John Foxx

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John Foxx
Birth name Dennis Leigh
Born (1947-09-26) 26 September 1947 (age 65)
Chorley, Lancashire, England
Genres Glam rock, synthpop, New Wave, psychedelic rock, ambient, electronic
Instruments Vocals, keyboards, guitars, percussion
Years active 1970–present
Associated acts Tiger Lily, Ultravox, Nation 12, Blitz, Louis Gordon, Harold Budd, Benge, John Foxx and the Maths
Website http://www.metamatic.com

John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh,[1] 26 September 1947)[2] is an English singer, artist, photographer and teacher. He was the original lead singer of the band Ultravox, before leaving to embark on a solo career with Midge Ure taking his place. Primarily associated with electronic synthesizer music, he has also pursued a parallel career in graphic design and education.

Allmusic noted that Foxx "was one of those cult figures known more through the recordings of others rather than those of his own making. His detached, jolting vocal style inspired mainstream and underground artists across the decades, from synth pop superstar Gary Numan to electro-techno duo Adult".[2]

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Life and career [edit]

Early life [edit]

Dennis Leigh, later known as John Foxx, was born in Chorley, Lancashire.[2] His father was a coal miner and pugilist, his mother a millworker. He attended St Mary’s Primary and St Augustine’s Secondary schools.[3] During his youth in the 1960s he embraced the lifestyle of a mod and a hippy.[4] He experimented with tape recorders and synthesisers while on a scholarship at the Royal College of Art in London.[5]

His first band, formed whilst at art college in Preston, was called Woolly Fish.[6]

Prior to 1973, he was singing and playing a 12 string guitar, and occasionally supported Stack Waddy in Manchester, from where he later moved to London in order to escape what he saw as a lack of musical stimulus.[7]

Tiger Lily [edit]

In 1973 he formed a band that would eventually be called Tiger Lily, composed of bassist Chris Allen and guitarist Stevie Shears, with Canadian drummer Warren Cann joining shortly afterwards, in early 1974. The band played their first official gig at the Marquee club in August 1974. After the gig Billy Currie was recruited as violinist.

Tiger Lily released a single on 14 March 1975 on Gull Records, the A-side of which was a cover of the Fats Waller track "Ain't Misbehavin'". It was commissioned for (but not subsequently used in) a soft porn movie of the same name. The B-side of "Ain't Misbehavin'" was the group's own song - "Monkey Jive". The small amount of money they received for recording this single was used to buy Billy Currie an electric piano.[8] Tiger Lily played frequently in London pubs between 1974 and 1975.

Ultravox [edit]

After several name-changes, including Fire of London, The Zips and The Damned, the band became Ultravox!, in July 1976. The group's style fused punk, glam, electronic, reggae and New Wave music. Around this time, Leigh adopted his stage name of John Foxx (while Chris Allen, who had briefly gone by the name Chris St. John, changed his name again, to Chris Cross).

Once the band signed to Island Records, they released three albums during 1977-1978. The first Ultravox! single, "Dangerous Rhythm", backed with "My Sex", was released on 19 January 1977. Their first album (the self-titled Ultravox!) was released shortly afterwards, produced by Steve Lillywhite and the band, with assistance from Brian Eno. It was followed by their second album Ha!-Ha!-Ha!, which included the single "ROckWrok", although both were commercial failures.[citation needed]

For their third album, Systems of Romance, Ultravox abandoned the exclamation mark in their name. Also missing was their first guitarist, Stevie Shears, who was replaced by Robin Simon, from Neo. The album was co-produced by Conny Plank. Two singles were released from the album, "Slow Motion" and "Quiet Men". Sales were modest, but the album did gain the band exposure to a wider audience, including the United States.

During the recording of Systems of Romance, a song of the same name was written, but the band had no time to record it. It was later included on Foxx's second solo album The Garden.[9] At Systems of Romance gigs, Foxx began to perform with the band three future solo songs, "He's a Liquid" and "Touch & Go" (later included on Metamatic, Foxx's first solo album) and "Walk Away" (included on The Garden album). The latter song was not performed again by Foxx until 1983.[10]

Despite being dropped by their record label at the beginning of 1979,[11] Ultravox undertook a self-financed tour of the United States in February. During the tour, the band performed two new songs, "Touch and Go", which Foxx later recorded for Metamatic, and "Radio Beach", which was never recorded in the studio.[12]

Foxx had informed the band that he wished to leave. The band came to a parting of the ways at the end of the tour on the west coast of the United States, Robin Simon deciding to stay on in New York and Foxx announced his plan to go solo upon returning to England.[11] Without a lead singer, the band went into hiatus, Billy Currie joining Gary Numan's touring band and contributing to his 1979 album, The Pleasure Principle.[13] Currie rejoined the group, whilst Foxx was replaced by Midge Ure,[14] whom Currie had met whilst working with Visage. This Ultravox line-up lasted another nine years.[15]

Solo [edit]

After signing to Virgin Records, Foxx achieved minor chart success with his first solo singles, "Underpass" (UK No. 31) and "No-One Driving" (UK No. 32).[16] Its parent album Metamatic was released on 17 January 1980, and peaked at No. 18 in the UK Albums Chart.[16] Foxx played most of the synthesisers and "rhythm machines", as they were listed on the sleeve. One of the album's songs, "Metal Beat", takes its name from a CR-78 drum machine sound used on the record. Virgin released the album under the imprint name Metal Beat Records, which was used for Foxx releases throughout his contract with them.[17]

Foxx's next album was The Garden, released in September 1981. It reached No. 24 in the UK Albums Chart.[16] The Garden's starting point was "Systems of Romance", written by Foxx for the earlier album but not released at the time.[9]

In 1982, Foxx set up his own recording studio, designed by Andy Munro, also called The Garden, housed in an artists' collective in Shoreditch, East London, in a former warehouse also occupied by sculptors, painters and film makers. He produced some demo recordings for Virginia Astley's first album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.[18] Artists such as Depeche Mode, British Electric Foundation, Brian Eno, Trevor Horn, Bronski Beat, The Cure, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tina Turner, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Tuxedomoon also recorded in Foxx's studio.[citation needed]

In 1983, Foxx provided some music for the soundtrack to Michelangelo Antonioni's film Identification of a Woman (Identificazione di una Donna).[19] In September that year, his third solo LP The Golden Section was released (UK No. 27).[16]

The album In Mysterious Ways was issued in October 1985, which spent one week at No. 85 in the UK chart.[16] Musically it was not considered a significant advance on the sound of his three previous releases, nor was it a commercial success although the album's lyrics are far more romantic than any of his previous albums.[20] Foxx later said that at the time he felt divorced from any contemporary musical influences. However, he did produce, co-write and play on Pressure Points, by Anne Clark, the same year.[21]

Withdrawal from the music scene [edit]

After In Mysterious Ways, Foxx temporarily gave up his career in pop music.[22] He sold his recording studio and returned to his earlier career as a graphic artist, working under his original name of Dennis Leigh. Examples of this work include the book covers of Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh,[2] Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry, Anthony Burgess' A Dead Man in Deptford,[2] and several books in the Arden Shakespeare series.

Foxx began to find inspiration in the underground house and acid music scenes in Detroit and London. With Nation 12 in the early 1990s, Foxx released two 12-inch singles, "Remember" and "Electrofear". The first was a collaboration with Tim Simenon, best known for his Bomb the Bass project.[2] The group also wrote the music for the Bitmap Brothers computer games Speedball 2 (1990) and Gods (1991). He also worked with LFO and made the music video for their eponymous debut single.[2] Around this time, Foxx also taught on the Graphic Arts & Design degree course at Leeds Metropolitan University.[citation needed]

Re-emergence with Louis Gordon [edit]

On 24 March 1997, Foxx made a return to the music scene with the simultaneous release of two albums, Shifting City and Cathedral Oceans on Metamatic Records.[23] Shifting City was Foxx's first collaboration with Manchester musician Louis Gordon.

On 11 October 1997, Foxx played his first public gig since 1982 at The Astoria, London. A limited edition twelve-track CD (1,000 numbered copies only) entitled Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour was available for purchase by ticket holders. Foxx and Gordon continued to work together, performing live on the Subterranean Omnnidelic Exotour in 1997 and 1998 and releasing a second album The Pleasures of Electricity, in September 2001. Two years later they toured again, to promote the album Crash and Burn, released in September 2003 on Foxx's own Metamatic Records.

Three collaborative albums with Louis Gordon were released in late 2006: Live From a Room (As Big as a City), a 'live' studio album from the 2003 tour (released in association with an interview CD entitled "The Hidden Man") in October; the studio album From Trash in November and a further album from the same sessions a few weeks later during the accompanying mini-tour. This two-CD package, entitled Sideways, included ten original tracks plus two extended versions of songs on From Trash. The second disc contained an extensive interview with Foxx describing the making of From Trash which was available only at concerts on the 2006 tour.

The "live in the studio" recordings originally distributed in limited edition during the 1998 Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour were later made available through the the double-CD issue "The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Exotour" (2002) and the double CD re-issue of "Shifting City" in 2009. The album "Retro Future" (2007) is a live on stage performance recorded on the Exotour, on 10th January 1998 at Shrewsbury Music Hall. It was released for John Foxx’s 2007 Metamatic tour, and originally limited to 1000 pressings.[24]

Cathedral Oceans [edit]

The first volume of Cathedral Oceans was released at the same time as Foxx's comeback collaboration with Louis Gordon and the Shifting City album. In stark contrast to the latter, Cathedral Oceans is a more ethereal, ambient work combined with Foxx's own artwork of overgrown natural settings superimposed onto faces of statues. 2003 also saw the release of the second volume of Cathedral Oceans as well as another ambient record, the double CD Translucence and Drift Music with Harold Budd.[2] In 2004, from September through October, a collection of Cathedral Oceans images was exhibited at BCB Art, Hudson, New York, and in the following year Cathedral Oceans III was released.[citation needed] A second surround sound DVD of Cathedral Oceans was released in March 2007. This contained his artwork made into a film intended as a "slowly moving, hallucinogenic, digital stained glass window, intended to be projected as big as possible onto architecture and in public places." The work was premiered in November 2006 at the Leeds International Film Festival. In July 2007, Foxx exhibited some of his Cathedral Oceans artwork as large format digital prints at Fulham Palace as part of the RetroFuture exhibition hosted by ArtHertz. On the opening night, Foxx performed a piano piece accompanying a reading from his unpublished novel The Quiet Man in front of an audience for the first time.

work with Jori Hulkkonen [edit]

In April 2005, Foxx guested on Finnish DJ Jori Hulkkonen's album Dualizm, where he provided vocals for "Dislocated" which Hulkkonen had written for him. A month later, Foxx appeared on stage at the Brighton Pavilion with Harold Budd and Bill Nelson as part of a concert to celebrate the work of the retiring pianist, which led to the announcement in October that year that Foxx would be involved in collaborations with Jah Wobble, Robin Guthrie,[2] Steve Jansen and Nelson. The following month an album's worth of salvaged Nation 12 material was finally issued under the title Electrofear.[citation needed]

Tiny Colour Movies [edit]

In June 2006, Foxx released an instrumental solo album, Tiny Colour Movies, consisting of fifteen instrumental tracks inspired by short art films he saw at a private screening. His official website described these as having the "filmic, atmospheric approach" of the Metamatic-era instrumental B-sides "Glimmer", "Film One" and "Mr No". On 18 November 2006, Foxx gave a performance of the work at the Duke of York's cinema in Brighton, where Tiny Colour Movies was premiered as part of the city's Film Festival. Edited versions of the movies were shown on a big screen for the first time with Foxx playing a mix of live and recorded accompaniment from the album. This 'film' was shown again at Fulham Palace in July 2007, and in a slightly revised format at the ICA and as part of the 21st International Film Festival, in Leeds during November that year.[citation needed]

In September 2007, a remastered edition of Metamatic was released as a two-CD pack containing the original album, plus most of the associated B-sides and extra tracks from the period, including two 'new' songs re-assembled from original music recorded at the time.[25] In the same month, a showcase of Foxx's work was held at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, where he performed another version of Tiny Colour Movies and hosted a question-and-answer session. This was followed by the first live performance of the entire Metamatic album, during which Foxx and Louis Gordon were accompanied on stage by Steve D'Agostino. Later in the evening, the DVD of Cathedral Oceans was shown in one of the ICA cinema studios. In October, Foxx and Gordon toured the UK with Metamatic, culminating in a show at Cargo in London. The year ended with two shows at the Luminaire in London. A live album titled A New Kind of Man, culled from the Metamatic performances in 2007, was released on Metamatic Records on 28 April 2008.[26]

Foxx presented three different pieces of his solo work in the space of one week in June 2008. This began with a showing of Tiny Colour Movies at the Caixaforum in Barcelona on 14 June 2008, followed by a performance of Cathedral Oceans III inside the Great Hall at Durham Castle, England on the 18 June. He then travelled to Italy and presented an extract from The Quiet Man at the 14th Festival Internazionale di Poesia in Genoa.[27]

Further solo work [edit]

In March 2013, Foxx took part in the On Vanishing Land project, a work by British sound artists and theorists Mark Fisher and Justin Barton. Described as a magisterial audio-essay On Vanishing Land evokes a walk undertaken by the artists along the Suffolk coastline in 2005, from Felixstowe container port to the Anglo-Saxon burial ground at Sutton Hoo. The work integrates new compositions by John Foxx and other digital musicians Baron Mordant, Dolly Dolly, Ekoplekz, Farmers of Vega, Gazelle Twin, Pete Wiseman, Raime and Skjolbrot. As part of the vent presentation, on 7 March, Foxx premièred a new piano work entitled Electricity and Ghosts with accompanying films made by himself and Karborn.[citation needed]

Tributes and recognition [edit]

In the run up to the John Foxx and the Maths Interplay tour in October 2011, Artrocker ran a series of articles on Foxx, including a filmed interview taken at The Garden studios in London. Special features during the "John Foxx Week" also contained quotes and comments about his work from a variety of different musicians and film-makers, including The Orb, Vincent Gallo, members of Ladytron and Duran Duran, director Alex Proyas, and Awaydays creator Kevin Sampson. The corresponding printed version Artrocker (Issue 115) also featured Foxx and Gary Numan together in an in-depth interview.[28] The magazine contains further tributes by Philip Oakey of The Human League and Jim Kerr of Simple Minds.

John Foxx and the Maths [edit]

In December 2009, the Metamatic website announced the new musical project John Foxx and the Maths, the name given to the work written and produced by John Foxx and Benge.[29] Benge had already broken the news on his own blog in November calling The Maths "a new album project".[30] An initial download-only single, "Destination" / "September Town", was released in December 2009 by Townsend Records[31] and later via iTunes.

The duo continued to work in Benge's studio throughout 2010 and some new tracks were previewed at the Short Circuit electronic music festival at The Roundhouse in London on 5 June 2010.[32] A new album entitled Interplay was announced in January 2011[33] and released on 21 March. The album gained critical acclaim[34] with The Quietus calling it "one of the finest electronic records you'll hear in 2011." [35] The Quietus also launched a remix competition to coincide with the release of the album. Stems of the album track Shatterproof were made available for download, remixing and re-uploading via the Soundcloud site. The competition was won by Dave Poeme Electronique.[36][37] The release of the album was preceded by a remix of Shatterproof on YouTube.

Another live event featuring John Foxx and the Maths was held in April 2011. Back to the Phuture was billed as a special electronic music event – featuring live sets from Foxx, Gary Numan, Mirrors and Motor – plus a DJ set by Daniel Miller.[38] Again, a selection of tracks from the new album and Foxx's past works were played.[39]

A cover version of the Pink Floyd track "Have a Cigar" was recorded for a tribute CD issued by Mojo magazine with their October 2011 issue. It was announced shortly afterwards that the version on the CD was not the completed version, and a free download of the finished version was offered via the Mojo website.[40]

A nine-date UK tour by John Foxx and the Maths was announced in July 2011, plus live performances in Poland and Belgium. A second album, The Shape of Things, was also announced prior to the tour and was initially only available for purchase at tour venues.[41]

In January 2013, it was announced that John Foxx and the Maths would be the support act for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's spring English Electric tour. The 13-date tour ran from 30 March to 14 April 2013. Further live shows have been announced for June 2013 in Brighton, and at The Playground Festival in London's Brixton Academy.[citation needed]

Underpass revisited [edit]

Over the years John Foxx's first solo single Underpass, originally released in 1980, has come to be considered a milestone in the development of popular electronic music, and has gained recognition as iconic in the development of the electro-pop genre. In March 2010, Berlin producer Mark Reeder remixed the track Underpass (Reeder Sinister Subway Mix)[42] for John Foxx's CD/DVD retrospective compilation Metatronic. Reeder not only remixed his versions from the original master tapes in stereo for the CD, but he also made 5.1 mixes of his own remixes and Foxx's original 1980s version.[43]

The track will also be re-issued in May 2013 as a special edition 12 inch vinyl only on Metamatic Records. The disc features two new remixes namely the _UNSUBSCRIBE_ REMAKE MIX by Dave Clarke and Mr Jones and the Oh The Gilt Mix by John Tatlock and John Doran. The sleeve features new artwork created by Jonathan Barnbrook who has designed the covers of all the John Foxx And the Maths releases.[44]

Work outside music [edit]

In 2000, a Porcupine Tree release called Lightbulb Sun was issued with cover art by Foxx.

In December 2007, Foxx exhibited some of his photographic works in an exhibition called Cinemascope at the Coningsby Gallery in West London. The images were part of three collections, "Grey Suit Music", "Tiny Colour Movies" and "Cathedral Oceans".

His design work was the subject of an article in the UK monthly Creative review in September 2010.[45]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums [edit]

with Ultravox
Solo and collaborations
  • 1980 - Metamatic
  • 1981 - The Garden
  • 1983 - The Golden Section
  • 1985 - In Mysterious Ways
  • 1997 - Shifting City (with Louis Gordon)
  • 1997 - Cathedral Oceans
  • 1998 - Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour (500 copy numbered edition with Louis Gordon. From the rehearsals for the 1998 UK tour - 15/04/1998)
  • 2001 - The Pleasures of Electricity (with Louis Gordon)
  • 2003 - Cathedral Oceans I + Cathedral Oceans II (02/06/2003)
  • 2003 - Translucence + Drift Music (with Harold Budd 25/08/2003)
  • 2003 - Crash and Burn (with Louis Gordon)
  • 2005 - Cathedral Oceans III (08/08/2005)
  • 2005 - Electrofear (as Nation 12 14/11/2005)
  • 2006 - Tiny Colour Movies
  • 2006 - The Hidden Man (2CD interview set, a reading from The Quiet Man and three new songs.)[46]
  • 2006 - From Trash (with Louis Gordon)
  • 2006 - Sideways (with Louis Gordon. 2CD companion piece to From Trash, containing new tracks and an interview CD.)
  • 2007 - Metal Beat (2CD interview set between Steve Malins and John Foxx, discussing the making of Metamatic.)
  • 2008 - Impossible (with Louis Gordon. Remix album 16/10/2008)[47]
  • 2009 - My Lost City (23/02/2009)[48]
  • 2009 - A Secret Life (with Steve D'Agostino and Steve Jansen 23/03/2009)[49]
  • 2009 - Mirrorball (with Robin Guthrie 04/05/2009)[50]
  • 2009 - The Quiet Man (Extracts from the ongoing Quiet Man book read by Justin Barton, together with a new piano score by John Foxx - 27/07/2009)
  • 2010 - D.N.A. (06/2010)
  • 2010 - The Complete Cathedral Oceans (10/2010)[51]
  • 2011 - Interplay John Foxx and the Maths with Benge
  • 2011 - Nighthawks - John Foxx & Harold Budd featuring Ruben Garcia
  • 2011 - Torn Sunset - John Foxx & Theo Travis
  • 2011 - The Shape of Things John Foxx and the Maths with Benge
  • 2012 - Evidence John Foxx and the Maths with Benge

Live albums [edit]

  • 2002 - The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Exotour (02/12/2002)
  • 2006 - Live From a Room (As Big as a City) (with Louis Gordon 16/10/2006)
  • 2007 - Retro Future (with Louis Gordon)[52]
  • 2008 - A New Kind of Man[53]
  • 2008 - Neuro Video (with Louis Gordon 16/10/2008)[47]
  • 2009 - In the Glow (05/10/2009)
  • 2012 - Analogue Circuit: Live At The Roundhouse CD/DVD package as John Foxx And The Maths
  • 2013 - Rhapsody recorded live in the studio by John Foxx And The Maths

Compilation albums [edit]

with Ultravox
Solo

EPs [edit]

with Ultravox
  • 1978 - Retro (7" 10/02/1978)
  • 1988 - "The Peel Sessions" (12") (Recorded for the John Peel Show, BBC Radio 1, 21 November 1977 - 04/1988)
with Louis Gordon
  • 1997 - Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour (1000 copy numbered edition, with Louis Gordon. From the 1997 UK tour - 10/10/1997)[54]
  • 2003 - Drive EP (with Louis Gordon 09/09/2003)

Singles [edit]

with Tiger Lily
  • 1975 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" - 3:12 / "Monkey Jive" - 3:36 (7" 14/03/1975)
with Ultravox
  • 1977 - "Dangerous Rhythm" - 4:14 / "My Sex" - 3:01 (7" 04/02/1977)
  • 1977 - "Modern Love" (live) - 2:31 / "Quirks" - 1:38 (7" included free with the first copies of the album Ha!-Ha!-Ha!)
  • 1977 - "Young Savage" - 2:58 / "Slipaway" - 4:09 (live at The Rainbow) (7" 28/05/1977)
  • 1977 - "ROckwrok" - 3:33 / "Hiroshima Mon Amour" - 4:54 (7" 14/10/1977)
  • 1978 - "Slow Motion" - 3:27 / "Dislocation" - 2:55 (7" and 12" 04/08/1978)
  • 1978 - "Quiet Men" - 3:15 / "Cross Fade" 2:56 (7" and 12" 20/10/1978)
  • 1981- "Slow Motion" / "Quiet Men" / Hiroshima Mon Amour (7" reissue)
  • 1981- "Slow Motion" / "Quiet Men" / "Hiroshima Mon Amour" / "Dislocation" (2 x 7" reissue, also issued on one-sided cassette)
with Nation 12
  • 1990 - "Remember" / "Remember" (Sub Dub Mix) / "Listen to the Drummer" / "Remember" (12")
  • 1991 - "Electrofear" (Beastmix) - 4:20 / "Electrofear" (Shemsijo Mix) - 4:20 / "Electrofear" (Dogmix) - 3:56 (12")
  • 1991-92 -"Gods - Soundtrack (video game by Bitmap Brothers)"
Solo
  • 1980 - "Underpass" - 3:18 / "Film One" - 4:00 (7" 10/01/1980)
  • 1980 - "Underpass" (full length) - 3:56 / "He's A Liquid" (alternate) - 3:06 (12" promo 10/01/1980)
  • 1980 - "No-One Driving" (Remix) - 3:42 / "Glimmer" - 3:35 / "This City" - 3:05 / "Mr. No" 3:12 (double 7" 20/03/1980)
  • 1980 - "Burning Car" - 3:12 / "20th Century" - 3:04 (7" 11/07/1980)
  • 1980 - "My Face" - (single sided yellow 7" flexi-disc given free with Smash Hits October 2 - 15, 1980 issue)
  • 1980 - "Miles Away" - 3:17 / "A Long Time" - 3:49 (7" 29/10/1980)
  • 1981 - "Europe After the Rain" - 3:37 / "This Jungle" - 4:41 (7" 20/08/1981)
  • 1981 - "Europe After the Rain" - 3:59 / "This Jungle" - 4:41 / "You Were There" - 3:49 (12" 20/08/1981)
  • 1981 - "Dancing Like a Gun" - 3:38 / "Swimmer 2" - 3:30 (7" 30/10/1981)
  • 1981 - "Dancing Like a Gun" - 4:11 / "Swimmer 1" - 5:08 / "Swimmer 2" - 3:30 (12" 30/10/1981)
  • 1982 - "Endlessly" - 3:51 / "Young Man" - 2:53 (7" 16/07/1982)
  • 1983 - "Endlessly" (Remix) - 4:18 / "A Kind of Wave" - 3:39 (7" 17/06/1983)
  • 1983 - "Endlessly" (Remix) - 4:18 / "Dance with Me" - 3:31 (7" 17/06/1983)
  • 1983 - "Endlessly" (Remix) - 4:18 / "Ghosts on Water" - 3:12 / "A Kind Of Wave" - 3:39 / "Dance with Me" - 3:31 (double 7" 17/06/1983)
  • 1983 - "Endlessly" (12" version) - 7:40 / "A Kind of Wave" (12" version) 4:58 (12" 17/06/1983)
  • 1983 - "Your Dress" - 3:59 / "Woman on a Stairway" - 4:28 (7" 15/09/1983)
  • 1983 - "Your Dress" - 3:59 / "Woman on a Stairway" - 4:28 / "The Lifting Sky" - 4:44 / "Annexe" - 3:04 (double 7" 15/09/1983)
  • 1983 - "Your Dress" - 4:26 / "The Garden" - 7:14 (12" 15/09/1983)
  • 1983 - "Like a Miracle" - 5:11 / "The Lifting Sky" - 4:44 (7" and 12" 28/10/1983)
  • 1983 - "Like a Miracle" (extended version) - 8:11 / "Wings & a Wind" - 5:17 (7" and 12" 28/10/1983)
  • 1985 - "Stars on Fire" - 4:52 / "What Kind of a Girl" - 4:40 (7")
  • 1985 - "Stars on Fire" - 4:52 / "What Kind of a Girl" - 4:40 / "City Of Light" - 3:38 / "Lumen de Lumine" - 2:36 (double 7")
  • 1985 - "Stars on Fire" - 7:15 / "City of Light" - 3:38 / "What Kind Of a Girl" - 4:56 (12")
  • 1985 - "Enter the Angel" - 3:58 / "Stairway" - 5:00 (7" 20/09/1985)
  • 1985 - "Enter the Angel" - 5:52 / "Stairway" - 5:54 (12" 20/09/1985)
  • 2004 - "Mr No" / "Mr No" (Joakim Remix) (12")[55]
  • 2008 - "Burning Car" (20th Century) / "Burning Car" (Dubterror remix) (12" 22/09/2008)[56]
  • 2013 - Underpass (_UNSUBSCRIBE_ REMAKE MIX) (by Dave Clarke and Mr Jones) / Underpass (Oh The Gilt Mix) (by John Tatlock and John Doran) - special edition 12" vinyl only.[44]
with The Maths
  • 2010 - "Destination" - 5:11 / "September Town" - 4:26 (download only)

Box sets [edit]

  • 2008 - Cinemascope

(Features Crash and Burn, Cathedral Oceans III, Tiny Colour Movies, From Trash, Electrofear and the second edition of the Cathedral Oceans DVD.) The albums and DVD are re-packaged in cardboard wallets, featuring alternative artwork to the original pressings. Six art prints of John Foxx's artwork are also included.

Notes [edit]

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  4. ^ "The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Exotour" CDs Booklet (2002)
  5. ^ "John Foxx - Ultravox : music + art school (1987)". Artdesigncafe.com. 2011-06-23. Retrieved 2012-12-28. 
  6. ^ The Hidden Man CD, 2006
  7. ^ "A Quietus Interview | John Foxx Interviewed - The Quiet Man Speaks". The Quietus. Retrieved 11 July 2009. 
  8. ^ "Ultravox - Ultimate Discography: 1975-2004". Discogs.h17.ru. Retrieved 2012-12-28. 
  9. ^ a b Raggett, Ned. "The Garden - John Foxx : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-12-28. 
  10. ^ "John Foxx official website (Metamatic) : Archive". Metamatic.com. Retrieved 11 July 2009. 
  11. ^ a b "Warren Cann/Ultravox interview". Discog.info. Retrieved 2012-05-13. 
  12. ^ [2][dead link]
  13. ^ Prato, Greg. "Billy Currie - Music Biography, Credits and Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-12-28. 
  14. ^ "Thin Lizzy". Classicbands.com. Retrieved 2012-05-13. 
  15. ^ "Ultravox". Nme.com. 2008-11-10. Retrieved 2012-05-13. 
  16. ^ a b c d e Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 211. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 
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