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B-side
  
"Building"

Format
  
7" vinyl 12" vinyl

Length
  
4:10

Released
  
1984

Genre
  
Synthpop

Label
  
Chrysalis

"Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" is the second single from Lament, Ultravox's seventh studio album, released in 1984.

Contents

The single effectively put Ultravox back on the map, peaking at no. 3 in the UK Singles Chart, and reaching the top 10 in several European countries. The song also entered the Australian and Canadian Top 75 but failed to chart in the US.

The video is about a nuclear power plant meltdown. The music video depicts Midge Ure driving home after discovering that a nuclear explosion is imminent. The video ends with the power plant exploding, and the image of a home movie of Ure, his wife and their child, with the visual effect of a melting film.

The 7" single was released in three versions: with a standard picture sleeve, with a gate-fold booklet sleeve, and with a gate-fold booklet sleeve and a clear vinyl disc. All versions had the same catalogue number, "UV 1", and the same tracks. The 12" was released in two versions, with the same catalogue number "UVX 1": in a stickered gatefold sleeve containing a band poster and in a standard picture sleeve.

The B-side, "Building", is a piano ballad. "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" was the first song that Ultravox performed during the Live Aid charity event at the old Wembley Stadium, on 13 July 1985, for which Ure also played the lead guitar.

7" vinyl

  • UK: Chrysalis – UV 1
  • Germany: Chrysalis – 106 449
  • US: Chrysalis – VS4 42781
  • Canada: Chrysalis – CHS – 42781
  • 12" vinyl (UK and Europe)

  • UK: Chrysalis - UVX 1
  • Germany: Chrysalis - 601 322
  • 12" vinyl (North America)

  • US: Chrysalis - 4V9 42783
  • Canada: Chrysalis - CS 42783
  • Cover versions

  • German progressive metal band Dreamscape covered the song 1999 on their Very album.
  • German power metal band Freedom Call covered the song on their EP Taragon, released in 1999.
  • In 2004, German Eurodance project Novaspace released their version of "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" on a single, which was also included on their album Cubes.
  • Swedish band The Poodles covered the song on their debut album Metal Will Stand Tall in 2006.
  • German supergroup Avantasia covered the song on their EP Lost in Space Part II in 2007.
  • Swedish singer Velvet covered the song on her 2009 album The Queen.
  • Live cover performances

  • Guitarist Midge Ure played the song at "Rockpalast Fall 2006".
  • References

    Dancing with Tears in My Eyes Wikipedia