Ultravox, August 1980

"You can bang your head against the wall with a synthesizer as much as you can with a guitar."

I was sent to London to interview Ultravox in the summer of 1980, just before they got big.

Here’s an outtake from my memoir:

I was in Midge Ure’s flat in Chiswick nosing through his record collection, and I saw that it was full of Beatles LPs. Midge seemed a bit embarrassed when I mentioned it and said that he’d got them free from the record company.

I’d…