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The Gift (Midge Ure album)

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Released
  
October 1985

Release date
  
October 1985

Label
  
Chrysalis Records

Artist
  
Midge Ure

Producer
  
Midge Ure

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Recorded
  
1985 in Music Fest Studio, London

The Gift (1985)
  
Answers to Nothing (1988)

Genres
  
Electropop, New Romanticism

Similar
  
Midge Ure albums, New Romanticism albums, Other albums

Midge ure the gift


The Gift is the first solo album by former Ultravox frontman Midge Ure, released in 1985. It was released while Ultravox were taking a break; the band would go on to release U-Vox before splitting. The album reached #2 in the UK Albums Chart partly due to the large attention drawn to it by the single "If I Was" which reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1985. "That Certain Smile" was released as the second single in November 1985, and "Wastelands" was released as the third single in January 1986.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "If I Was" (Midge Ure, Daniel Mitchell) - 5:22
  2. "When the Winds Blow" (Ure, Mitchell) – 4:07
  3. "Living in the Past" (Ian Anderson) - 4:35
  4. "That Certain Smile" (Ure, Mitchell) - 4:08
  5. "The Gift" (Ure) - 5:00
  6. "Antilles" (Instrumental) (Ure) - 4:08
  7. "Wastelands" (Ure, Mitchell) - 4:40
  8. "Edo" (Instrumental) (Ure) - 3:24
  9. "The Chieftain" (Instrumental) (Ure) - 4:45
  10. "She Cried" (Ure, Mitchell) - 4:12
  11. "The Gift (Reprise)" (Ure) - 1:45

Bonus tracks for 1996 UK re-release:

  1. "Mood Music" - 3:30
  2. "Piano" (Ure) - 2:28
  3. "The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie) - 5:37
  4. "The Gift (Instrumental)" (Ure) - 5:11

Bonus disk for 2010 Remastered Definitive Edition:

  1. "No Regrets"
  2. "Mood Music"
  3. "If I Was" [Extended Mix]
  4. "Piano"
  5. "The Man Who Sold the World"
  6. "That Certain Smile" [Extended Mix]
  7. "The Gift" [Instrumental]
  8. "Fade to Grey" (Recorded live at Wembley Arena, 23 Dec 1985)
  9. "Wastelands" [Extended Mix]
  10. "When the Winds Blow" (Recorded live at Wembley Arena, 23 Dec 1985)
  11. "After a Fashion" (Recorded live at Wembley Arena, 23 Dec 1985)
  12. "The Chieftain / The Dancer" (Recorded live at Wembley Arena, 23 Dec 1985)
  13. "Call of the Wild" [Extended Mix]
  14. "That Certain Smile" (Recorded live at Wembley Arena, 23 Dec 1985)
  15. "The Gift" (Recorded live at Wembley Arena, 23 Dec 1985)

Personnel

  • Midge Ure - vocals, instrumentation, production
  • Mark King - bass guitar (tracks 1, 3, 9)
  • Mae McKenna, Lorenza Johnson, Jackie Challenor - backing vocals (tracks 4, 7)
  • Mark Brzezicki - drums (track 7)
  • Nigel Ross-Scott - bass guitar (tracks 4, 10)
  • Lindsay Elliott - drums (track 4)
  • Glenn Gregory - backing vocals (track 6)
  • Paul Mosby - mizmar (track 10)
  • Brian Tench - mixing engineer
  • Rik Walton - recording engineer
  • John Hudson - co-producer (track 12)
  • George Hurrell - photography
  • Peter Saville Associates - design

    • Songs

    1If I Was5:21
    2When the Winds Blow4:08
    3Living in the Past4:36

    References

    The Gift (Midge Ure album) Wikipedia
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