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Hi Sarah

I don't recall this clip, but I'm wondering if its the Spanish TV interview you are referring to?

If so, yes, it is truly crunge-making.

Mmm, I've got the Spanish one, the one with the woman with the enormous hair on 'Le edad d'oro' or something like that. Translators at the ready...

This other one is a very short clip, and it's a different show. It's all done in English. The only reason I thought it might be French is because at the end of the interview, just as the clip cuts off, you hear a voice say 'et maintenant'. Puzzling.

Thanks for replying though, Martin. We'll have to dig a bit deeper.....

Sarah

Hi Sarah - long time no mail

I think I've got the stripey shirt interview on an Ultravox compilation, and am pretty sure it was Old Grey Whistle Test mid-80s.

I'll try and put it on You Tube - if I can work out how!

Hi Steve - great to hear from you!

Have you got the full interview? I've got about one minute! Please put it on You Tube!

I've got it on an Ultravox compilation too! Was it really the Whistle Test? Sheesh..

Thanks for replying!

Sarah

Only about a minute, I'm afraid - it's probably the same e-bay compilation that I have then! I would check, but it's in the garage!

No worries, Steve!

Certainly sounds like the same compilation to me!

I have got a disc with a really atrocious quality interview on it from France. I think the sound isn't too bad, but the picture is appalling - all black and white and fuzzy. It just features John sitting in a chair talking about (amongst other things) leaving Ultravox and (if I remember correctly) referring to being in a band like 'being married to four people, and being married to one person is too much'. Or something along those lines. I don't know if you or anyone has got this in better quality?

Cheers!

Sarah

That's not john Foxx! Surely it's Swedish tennis ace Mats Wilander!
Cheers

Cheers, Brian - I've seen that interview before, but that's a better quality version. Absolutely hilarious, and also very interesting to see John talking during the Ultravox era. I've only ever seen/heard later interviews.

Sarah - I've seen a transcript of the French one you mentioned online (remembered the quote). It's quite a lengthy interview, and he says a bit more than usual about the circumstances of his leaving the band, if I remember rightly. Never heard about the Spanish one, though, from 'The Golden Age' or whatever it's called...

Hi Sarah - I've had a rummage, and found that I too have the black and white interview you mentioned above, from 1980. Cut with excerpts from the Underpass and He's A Liquid videos. And a transcript also somewhere. Isn't it from Belgium?

But I don't have the French "stripey shirt" interview as far as I know, so I'd be very happy to see that

It really is a very short clip, and possibly from the Whistle Test. I've got it on the end of an Ultravox! disc (although it's mainly Midge era), and I think I may have it on another disc too. I'll have a good root round. When I find it I'll watch it again and let you know.

Sarah