Billy Currie
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| Homepage www.billycurrie.com |
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| Current Bands/Artist Name Ultravox |
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| Biog and News Yorkshireman Billy Currie is a prolific composer and widely known as the keyboard player with the 1980's New Wave band, Ultravox. All four members (Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie and Midge Ure) are this year reuniting for the first time since performing at Live Aid in 1985, for a UK Ultravox reunion tour entitled 'Return to Eden'. In the 80's Billy also collaborated with Gary Numan and co-write Visage's seminal hit 'Fade to Grey'. He went on to work on film projects and record solo albums on his own label 'Puzzle', the most recent being 'Accidental Poetry of the Structure' about which Billy says: "When I write I usually have two or three ideas on the go. Differing colours and emotions. It is only when I work on the structure that the sparks start to fly and accidental to this process of structuralising the piece the musical ideas come to life and speak! The poetry of music is accidental to this creative structural activity” Instruments Billy is noted for his use of analogue synthesisers and viola which was his original instrument whilst at music college. Past Bands/Collaborations
Bartok, Schoenburg, Honegger, Varese, Terry Riley Credits ~ with Ultravox
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