25 years ago now John Foxx quit Ultravox
April 27th, 2004 by Koldo Barroso
25 years ago today, on April 27th 1979, singer John Foxx announced he was quitting Ultravox to pursue a solo career.
John Foxx is one of the most significant and unique figures in the early New Wave scene of the 70’s. Foxx was founder member of Ultravox in 1974, recorded the first three albums of the band, and later became an essential figure in the London underground New Wave and Synth Pop scene.
After leaving Ultravox, Foxx founded his own Metal Beat label and he released two of the most representative works of Synth Pop in the early 80’s, which are “Metamatic”(1980) and “The Garden” (1981). In 1983, John Foxx quit the music business for a long silence in which he concentrated in visual art and poetry and then re-appeared in 1997 with a series of ambient works with keyboardist Louis Gordon. His album “The Pleasures of Electricity” in 2002 recovered the electronic and more experimental side of John Foxx.