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Billy Currie
Currie performing in 2009
Background information
Birth name
William Lee Currie
Also known as
Billy Curry
Born
(1950-04-01) 1 April 1950 (age 74)
Origin
Huddersfield, England
Genres
New wave
art rock
post-punk
synthpop
glam rock
cosmic music
new-age
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Viola
violin
piano
keyboards
Years active
1974–present
Formerly of
Tiger Lily
Ultravox
Visage
Tubeway Army
Musical artist
William Lee Currie (born 1 April 1950[1]) is a British multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Huddersfield, England. He is best known as the keyboard and strings player with new wave band Ultravox, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1980s.
^Ultravox.org.uk Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
released in 1994. Both albums were commercially unsuccessful. Since 2001 BillyCurrie has released several solo albums on his own label. These include Unearthed...
rehearsing with the band from April of that year) after he and keyboardist BillyCurrie worked in the studio project Visage. Ure revitalised the band and steered...
produced by Plank. Among Ultravox's own repertoire, antecedents included BillyCurrie's distinctive synthesizer work on "The Man Who Dies Every Day" and the...
Cherie Ann Currie (born November 30, 1959) is an American singer, musician, actress and artist. Currie was the lead vocalist of The Runaways, a rock band...
Dave Formula, John McGeoch and Barry Adamson, and Ultravox keyboardist BillyCurrie, and the band signed briefly to Radar Records for the release of their...
guitarist Stevie Shears, drummer Warren Cann, and violinist/keyboardist BillyCurrie. After playing gigs from 1974 to 1976, in the latter year the band renamed...
station in the United Kingdom. Band members Chris Cross, Warren Cann and BillyCurrie play workers and a police officer at the power station, with Midge Ure...
the Pops on 24 May 1979. The band, now including Ultravox keyboardist BillyCurrie, Chris Payne, Paul Gardiner and drummer Cedric Sharpley, appeared all...
working only with drummer Rusty Egan and a trio of newer musicians. BillyCurrie (the Ultravox keyboardist who had been part of Visage for their first...
dance rock band Kava Kava, the birthplace of the synthpop musician BillyCurrie (of Ultravox and Visage), and the hard rock bassist John McCoy who played...
that kind of works." All songs written by Warren Cann, Chris Cross, BillyCurrie, and Midge Ure. Original release: CHR 1338 Side A: "The Voice" – 6:01...
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