I keep getting Emails from people asking me to re-upload the links and music etc. I think people are just getting to those particular pages so are not reading the reason for the dead links.
So I am putting this in place so hopefully people will read it and stop Emailing me about it.
The reason the links are dead is that my account with Media Fire has been closed with all 11,000 files lost. That is why you can not download the things and No I can not re-upload them.
Eventually I will start doing that again when I have found something suitable. In the meantime this blog will be information only blog.
Thank you all
Michaael
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'After A Fashion' was a one-off single released by Ultravox lead singer Midge Ure and Mick Karn bassist for the art rock band Japan, from 1974 to 1982.
The song peaked at number 39 on the UK singles chart in 1983.
The cover for the single was taken by Linda McCartney.
I have included the video that was taken from the Timmy Mallet Saturday program as this is the only version that has surfaced on You Tube (to my knowledge). The quality is not great. If any one has a much better quality that does not have the programe info at the end then please let me know. Thank you in advance.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Extended Version Textures - B-side
'Tar' is the debut single by the British pop group Visage. It was initially released on Radar Records on 7 September 1979, before the band had signed to Polydor. Although not a chart hit, the track is also available on Visage's eponymous debut album released in 1980.
The lyrics are centered around the habit of smoking cigarettes.
The b-side to the single is 'Frequency 7', a rapid synth song with robotic vocodor vocals. This version of 'Frequency 7' has never been re-released in any form since the original release of Tar in 1979 and is a rarity.
The more commonly-circulated 'Dance Mix' of the song is stripped of all vocals. This is also the sole Visage song where bassist Barry Adamson receives a writing credit.
Click the link below to download the following: Single Version Frequency 7 - B-Side
'Whispers' is a Japanese only single, which is particularly interesting because it contains a unique edit of Whispers that is not found any where else.
In 1982 TDK Japan made two TV adverts featuring Steve Strange, using Night Train and Whispers, both later released as singles in Japan.
Interesting feature is also the colour picture insert of the band photographed in the gardens of Munich's Schloss Nymphenburg with Japanese text biography and lyrics printed on the reverse of the vinyl.
The track was featured on the album Anvil.
Click the link below to download the following: Single Version The Horseman - B-Side
Band Aid were a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' for the Christmas market. The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release. Two subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts.
The original was produced by Midge Ure. The 12" version was mixed by Trevor Horn. The name 'Band Aid' was chosen as a pun on the name of a well known brand of adhesive bandage, also referring to musicians working as a band to provide aid and alluding to the fact that any help stemming from their efforts is likened to a band-aid on a very serious wound. The group has formed on three occasions, each time from the most successful British and Irish pop music performers of the time, to record the same song at the same time of year.
The original 1984 Feed The World logo was based on a pencil sketch by Bob Geldof after watching a BBC television news report by Michael Buerk from famine-stricken Ethiopia. Geldof was so moved by the plight of starving children that he decided to try and raise money using his contacts in pop music. Geldof enlisted the help of Midge Ure, from the group Ultravox, to help produce a charity record.
Ure took Geldof's lyrics, and created the melody and backing track for the record. Geldof called many of the most popular British and Irish performers of the time (Kool & The Gang and Jody Watley were the only Americans present at the original recording), persuading them to give their time free. His one criterion for selection was how famous they were, in order to maximise sales of the record. He then kept an appointment to appear on a show on BBC Radio 1, with Richard Skinner, but instead of promoting the new Boomtown Rats material as planned, he announced the plan for Band Aid.
The recording studio gave Band Aid no more than 24 free hours to record and mix the record, on 25 November 1984. The recording took place between 11am and 7pm, and was filmed by director Nigel Dick to be released as the pop video though some basic tracks had been recorded the day before at Midge Ure's home studio. The first tracks to be recorded were the group / choir choruses which were filmed by the international press. The footage was rushed to newsrooms where it aired while the remainder of the recording process continued. Later drums by Phil Collins were recorded, including the memorable opening 'African Drum' beat. But in reality, the introduction of the song features a slowed down sample from a Tears for Fears' track called 'The Hurting', released in 1983.
Tony Hadley, of Spandau Ballet, was the first to record his vocal, while a section sung by Status Quo was deemed unusable, and replaced with section comprising Paul Weller, Sting, and Glenn Gregory. Paul Young has since admitted, in a documentary, that he knew his opening lines were written for David Bowie, who was not able to make the recording but made a contribution to the B-side (Bowie performed his lines at the Live Aid concert the following year). Boy George arrived last at 6pm, after Geldof woke him up by 'phone to have him flown over from New York on Concorde to record his solo part. (At the time Culture Club was in the middle of a US tour.)
The following morning, Geldof appeared on the Radio 1 breakfast show with Mike Read, to promote the record further and promise that every penny would go to the cause. This led to a stand-off with the British Government, who refused to waive the VAT on the sales of the single. Geldof made the headlines by publicly standing up to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and, sensing the strength of public feeling, the government backed down and donated the tax back to the charity. The record was released on 29 November, and went straight to No. 1 in the UK singles chart, outselling all the other records in the chart put together. It became the fastest- selling single of all time in the UK, selling a million copies in the first week alone. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks, selling over three million copies and becoming easily the biggest-selling single of all time in the UK. It has since been surpassed by Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind 1997' (his tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales) but it is likely to keep selling in different versions for many years to come.
After Live Aid, 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' was re-released in late 1985 in a set that included a special-edition 'picture disc' version, modeled after the Live Aid logo with 'Band' in place of 'Live'. An added bonus, 'One Year On' (a statement from Geldof and Ure on the telephone) was available as a b-side. 'One Year On' can also be found in transcript form in a booklet which was included in the DVD set of Live Aid, the first disc of which features the BBC news report, as well as the Band Aid video.
The original Band Aid ensemble consisted of (in sleeve order):
Adam Clayton (U2) Queen Phil Collins (Genesis, solo) Bob Geldof (The Boomtown Rats) Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet) Chris Cross (Ultravox) John Taylor (Duran Duran) Paul Young Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17) Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran) Simon Crowe (The Boomtown Rats) Marilyn Keren Woodward (Bananarama) Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet) Jody Watley (Shalamar) Bono (U2) Paul Weller (The Style Council) James "J.T." Taylor (Kool & the Gang) George Michael (Wham!) Midge Ure (Ultravox) Martyn Ware (Heaven 17) John Keeble (Spandau Ballet) Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) Roger Taylor (Duran Duran) Sarah Dallin (Bananarama) Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama) Pete Briquette (The Boomtown Rats) Francis Rossi (Status Quo) Robert 'Kool' Bell (Kool & the Gang, whose members were the only Americans to participate) Dennis J. T. Thomas (Kool & the Gang) Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) Jon Moss (Culture Club) Sting (The Police) Rick Parfitt (Status Quo) Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) Johnny Fingers (The Boomtown Rats) David Bowie Boy George (Culture Club) Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings) Stuart Adamson (Big Country) Bruce Watson (Big Country) Tony Butler (Big Country) Mark Brzezicki (Big Country)
Click the link below to download the following: Video Band Aid Story - 3 Part Documentary Single Version 12 inch Mix by Trevor Horn Standard Mix Feed The World - B-Side One Year On - Feed The World - B-side
'Passing Strangers' is Ultravox's second single from the band's first album with Midge Ure, released on Chrysalis Records on 15 October 1980.
A fast-paced guitar track recalling early John Foxx-era Ultravox, Passing Strangers ultimately failed to live up to the top 30 success of its predecessor Sleepwalk. It stalled at number 57 in the UK singles chart despite having a music video (directed by Russell Mulcahy and featuring Barbie Wilde and Tok from Tik & Tok) and released on 12" format alongside the regular 7", both of which Sleepwalk lacked.
The single contains two live b-sides; 'Face To Face', an original Ultravox track that was never recorded in studio and 'King's Lead Hat', a live cover of the Brian Eno song.
Click the link below to download the follwing: Video Single Version Face To Face - Live - B-Side
Visage was formed in 1979 by Steve Strange, Rusty Egan, Midge Ure and later Billy Currie and was quickly linked to the burgeoning New Romantic movement of the early 1980’s. In March 1981 Visage released their fourth single ‘Mind of a Toy’. It was backed by ‘We Move’. The A-side was a remixed version of a song that first appeared on their self titled debut album. The B-side ‘We Move’ was a non album track. The single reached number 13 in the UK charts.
Click the link below to download the following:
Video Single Version MP3 Dance Mix MP3 We Move - Dance Mix MP3 Frequency 7 (Dance Mix) MP3
Following their earlier success, Strange struggled to reunite the band's members again to record a second album because of their commitments with their respective bands (Ure and Currie with Ultravox, Formula with Magazine, and McGeoch with Siouxsie and the Banshees). However, in the autumn of 1981 all musicians (except McGeoch) went into the studio again and recorded the album ‘The Anvil’. The album was released in March 1982 and became Visage's first (and only) UK top ten album, producing two top twenty singles with "The Damned Don't Cry" and "Night Train". The Damned Don’t Cry made it to number 11 in the UK charts continuing the earlier success of the band.
Click on the link below to download the following:
Video Single Version Mp3 Dance Mix MP3 Motivation MP3
'No Regrets' is a song by folk and blues singer Tom Rush. It is the final song on his 1968 album The Circle Game
'After A Fashion' was a one-off single released by Ultravox lead singer Midge Ure and Mick Karn bassist for the art rock band Japan, from 1974 to 1982.
'Moon Over Moscow' is a strange single as it was only ever released in Japan, in 1981, and does not always appear on
Visage's Discographies.
'Tar' is the debut single by the British pop group Visage. It was initially released on Radar Records on 7 September 1979, before the band had signed to Polydor. Although not a chart hit, the track is also available on Visage's eponymous debut album released in 1980.
'Night Train' is the sixth single by the British pop group Visage, released by Polydor Records on 11 June 1982.
'Whispers' is a Japanese only single, which is particularly interesting because it contains a unique edit of Whispers that is not found any where else.
'Visage' is the fourth single by the British pop group Visage, released by Polygram Records on June 29, 1981.
Band Aid were a British and Irish charity supergroup, founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing the record 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' for the Christmas market. The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release. Two subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts.
Smash Hits - Happy Christmas From The Stars was a flexi disc given away free in a copy of Smash Hits magazine December 1982.
'Passing Strangers' is Ultravox's second single from the band's first album with Midge Ure, released on Chrysalis Records on 15 October 1980.
Visage was formed in 1979 by Steve Strange, Rusty Egan, Midge Ure and later Billy Currie and was quickly linked to the burgeoning New Romantic movement of the early 1980’s. In March 1981 Visage released their fourth single ‘Mind of a Toy’. It was backed by ‘We Move’. The A-side was a remixed version of a song that first appeared on their self titled debut album. The B-side ‘We Move’ was a non album track. The single reached number 13 in the UK charts.
Following their earlier success, Strange struggled to reunite the band's members again to record a second album because of their commitments with their respective bands (Ure and Currie with Ultravox, Formula with Magazine, and McGeoch with Siouxsie and the Banshees). However, in the autumn of 1981 all musicians (except McGeoch) went into the studio again and recorded the album ‘The Anvil’. The album was released in March 1982 and became Visage's first (and only) UK top ten album, producing two top twenty singles with "The Damned Don't Cry" and "Night Train". The Damned Don’t Cry made it to number 11 in the UK charts continuing the earlier success of the band.
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