Chris Cross Ultravox Death, London, Uk Musician And Bass Guitarist For Ultravox Band has died

Chris Cross Ultravox Obituary –  We have learned of the passing of Chris Cross, who was a member of the Ultravox band and played both the bass and the keyboard. Our hearts are filled with profound sorrow.one of the most important aspects of the band’s overall sound…at this time, our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends..

The William Forster Comprehensive High School, which is connected to Belmont Secondary Modern School, was where Cross had his secondary education. Small Faces, Desmond Dekker, and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown were among the most significant musical influences that he encountered in his formative years. The neighborhood of Tottenham, which is found in North London, was the place where he began his career as a musician by performing in a number of different bands.

Eventually, he became a member of Stoned Rose, a band that was located in Preston, Lancashire. Stoned Rose was comprised of Pete Hughes and Mick Carroll, both of whom would go on to establish Ritzi for themselves. 2 [2] On the other hand, he also made the choice to enroll in college in order to pursue a degree in psychology, which was a subject that he had been interested in for a considerable amount of time.In 1973, he returned to London in order to enroll in Art College, where he began his studies in both Art and Psychology.

He eventually became a successful artist. At the same time, he responded to the call for members to create a new band by recruiting Dennis Leigh, an art student in London. He did this in order to respond to the advertisement. Tiger Lily was formed as a consequence of this, and the next year, guitarist Stevie Shears, drummer Warren Cann, and the inclusion of violinist and keyboardist Billy Currie were all members of the band.

During the course of a year, Tiger Lily spent their time in Modrenos, a mannequin refurbishment factory located in Kings Cross, London. It was there that they constructed, arranged, and practiced their songs, the majority of which were composed by Leigh. Both the band’s decision to alter their name to Ultravox! and their signing of a recording contract with Island Records took place in the year 1976. Since that time, they have been doing live performances between the years 1974 and 1976.

With the Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, one of Cross’s favorite guitar players, Eddie and the Hot Rods vocalist Barrie Masters, and The Rods drummer Steve Nicol, Cross collaborated on another “Purely for Fun” project in 1979. This time, Cross was working on the project on a part-time basis. Ultravox! (1977), Ha!-Ha!-Ha! (1977), and Systems of Romance (1978) were the three albums that came before this one. Although they were not economically successful, they proved to be significant.

Furthermore, following a tour that took place in both the United States of America and Canada, the original vocalist John Foxx and guitarist Robin Simon, who had taken over for Stevie Shears the previous year, decided to leave Ultravox. The band Ultravox went on to concentrate more on establishing their characteristic synthesiser sounds when they were recording their extremely hit album Vienna. This was a direct outcome of Midge Ure’s decision to join Ultravox.

It was at that point in time that he and Ure had developed a close friendship, and they had worked together on the direction of a number of music videos, such as “Shy Boy” by Bananarama and “The Telephone Always Rings” by Fun Boy Three. The song “The Bloodied Sword” was written by Cross, who was also a participant in the Band Aid video and was responsible for writing the music behind it. He asserts that the band “never got around to working on Ultravox” after a string of other successful albums, such as Rage in Eden (1981), Quartet (1982), Monument (1983), and Lament (1984), as well as a tour in 1987. He says this since the band had already released a number of other albums. Even though it was released in 1987, the band’s most recent album, titled U-Vox, was not as successful as the other albums they had made.