MIDGE URE

The Gift CHRYSALIS

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Versatile Ultravox man’s debut expanded. While he’s hardly synonymous with the genre this publication is dedicated to, there are few styles that Midge Ure hasn’t dipped a musicianly toe into over the years. His appreciation for prog is reflected in his choice of cover on this debut album, released at the height of his post-Band Aid fame in 1985 and now reissued as a 58-track deluxe edition. His take on Jethro Tull’s Living In The Past boldly filters it through an electro-funk reimagining, but what Ure clearly understood is that its percussive structure means it can withstand this kind of rebuild. The rendition of the central flute hook on an airy synth shouldn’t work, but it does. No.1 single If I Was is a pomp-pop earworm familiar to millions, but…

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Prog Italia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 144

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