All The Rage

Forty-one years ago, Ultravox entered Conny Plank’s studio in West Germany to record the follow-up to the hugely successful Vienna. They had no songs and no ideas, but over the course of several months, the experimental Rage In Eden began to take shape. Midge Ure, Billy Currie and Warren Cann reminisce over the creation of an album that not only reached the UK Top 5 but also earned them comparisons to Genesis!

Jeremy Allen

The song Vienna might have been held off the No.1 spot by a novelty song about a rebellious Italian boy, but its huge success gave Ultravox carte blanche to experiment for as long as it took with a bearlike German. Conny Plank, the éminence grise of krautrock, was rehired to oversee Ultravox’s fifth studio album, and this time it would take more than three months to come to fruition at his converted pig farm in Wolperath, near Cologne. The band went into the studio with nothing, and opened themselves up to the whims of inspiration. The result of that gamble was 1981’s Rage In Eden and, for Ultravox fans (of the new testament variety), it’s the pinnacle of the band’s creativity. Furthermore, it’s a cornerstone of progressive pop, and became…

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