LOVE IT! Listening in 2024 ❤

A Scottish man, dressed as a leather biker / LeatherMan (Wonderful piece of subversion) singing about the grandeur of being in Vienna - what could be more captivating?! A song everyone thinks was a No.1 single in the U.K. although it didn't quite make it. Midge Ure removed the heavy leather jacket early in the performance as it was probably just too hot too wear under those intense BBC studio lights! I think he looks like he really enjoyed the role (And about as "butch" as Midge ever got!). I remember seeing this performance (I was 6 years old), but like a sponge, I knew that being a singer looked so cool if I could perform dressed like that and sing such wonderful songs! So glad that it is still available to watch today, years later.

Who's listening in December 2021.What a tune

Wow love Midge Ure's outfit. It is so New Romantic!!!!!

OMG I guess he got a style tip from Steve Strange that day. I have never seen this!

To Chris, bassist. We had happy days and sad days to this song 🎵. RIP. UK 🇬🇧

Legendary!

Let's face it, if you wrote this tune, then performed it on Top of the pops you could wear a spud sack and still look far king awesome.. This tune just kicks arse!!!!

@hermanmunster3358

10 ай бұрын

But instead, he chose to dress as a leather clad gay icon! Or maybe he was heading out into town for a few Bacardi and Cokes after the show.

Midge Halford

@perryroobay

3 жыл бұрын

underrated comment😂

@trqsdays1

2 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh man...

Impressionnant j'avais 5 ans cela passait à la tv

Wow!

Classic

3.50 to end, most amazing, best part of song!

I'm surprised no one ever tried to "remake" this song all these years later. I bet it could be a hit in more modern generation too.

@user-yc5um2pl5v

2 жыл бұрын

Thank God nobody did (except Ultravox themselves!). Some songs must stay in their original form and not be tainted be "cover versions" and suchlike krapp.

@dragandraganic

Жыл бұрын

There are actually quite a few cover versions (check wikipedia), but it's true, none comes close. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gKVnxaqlkrCYe8Y.html

More music from Ultravox: Ultravox.lnk.to/Listen

Why is he dressing like Depeche Mode/Village People 😂

@dlusman

5 жыл бұрын

Because its Christmas . Do you not dress up at Christmas ?

@marguskiis7711

5 жыл бұрын

Spoofing Depechr

Not so mystic, but still soulful...here.

Looks like Rob Halford. Strange

I have a memory a concert performance on TV where a drummer was centre stage with one or two drums with a huge audience. It was indoor so not LiveAid. It was so cool and I always thought the drummer was one of the star performers and that there were two 'leader's of the group. But I can find what I remember anywhere. I think it was later in the 80s. This TOP version comes closest as the drummer is featured, but this was like one or two drums set up centre stage and I don't remember the rest of the band. I'd love if someone has an idea about it?

@perryroobay

3 жыл бұрын

Rush

@bethrad1519

Жыл бұрын

I think you mean this, check out at 9:21 on the clip. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nXie1MiYosXKn6Q.html

@dragandraganic

Жыл бұрын

Im 100% positive what you mean is from the Monument Tour 1983, which resulted in a live album called "Monument - the Soundtrack", and a video release of the Hammersmith Odeon concert. But the drummer wasn't centre stage, he remains in the back - it's the other 3 members who at a point start playing electric drum solo / outro - front-stage: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gG2p27ZqYdm-gNo.html

Rob Halford called

¿Qué le pasa a Migde? ¿Le afeitaron la cabeza y se cubrió con lo primero que encontró?

I find Midge's going to a gay bar look quite arousing!

@jemmajames6719

3 жыл бұрын

Karen Mason I know! Guess it wasn’t the look he was going for! 😂🤣

@Cosford869

Жыл бұрын

I always find Midge arousing. Especially his moustache in this.

@robburdlow4301

9 ай бұрын

@@Cosford869He made me realise which team I batted for…..gorgeous!

@Cosford869

9 ай бұрын

@@robburdlow4301 Same here Rob. I realised that I was playing for the other team when I was seeing men like Midge on TOTP as a six/seven year old. Not really understanding about sexuality at that age but knowing I was drawn to men. Midge is still a sexy guy at age of 70 I think. But back then he was so hot!

@robburdlow4301

9 ай бұрын

@@Cosford869Have to say you are rather cute with your moustache!

Rob Halord haha

A bit S+M Midge..

Spoofing Judas Priest, maybe Depeche Mode.

@paulmajor8865

Жыл бұрын

Or the village people

The costume was a mistake -- let s recognize this …

@ajs41

Жыл бұрын

It's a New Romantic costume like what Steve Strange used to wear, and this is a New Romantic classic.

@fedm6296

6 ай бұрын

Nope

I wonder if he realized that this look would later be adopted by fetish loving homosexuals?

@christopherfraser9098

6 жыл бұрын

Um, you got this the wrong way round. "Fetish loving homosexuals" had been wearing that gear for decades before he copied them. Freddie Mercury also copied the gay leather man look on TOTP wearing the leather Muir cap popular in leather bars all over the West.

@homeboy2166

6 жыл бұрын

Sooooo, you are speaking from experience?

@christopherfraser9098

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. As an ageing gay leatherman I know exactly what I was wearing in the late seventies and early eighties - full leather with a Muir cap. I saw Freddie in the leather bars of Munich and even ( my main claim to fame ) was chatted up by him in a night club in Earls Court.

@homeboy2166

6 жыл бұрын

Well, each to their own.

@arizonaidiot1250

5 жыл бұрын

@@christopherfraser9098 He was hardly "copying" homosexuals......do some research before you post this BS!!!!!

Freddie Mercury inspired outfit......not great!