Wa-hey! This slinky version never made it to Saturday morning video shows in Australia, let me tell you. The 1983 video for their single “Visions In Blue” features two young females in an arty soft focus bathing scene in between performance shots of frontman Midge Ure singing with an incredibly pained look on his face (cheer up son, you’re still a year away from working with Bob Geldof on “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”!). Ultravox are best known for the stark and shimmering synth sounds of 1980 single "Vienna", but it seems they also liked to pimp up their later New Romantic output with some soft porn.
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A G-rated cut where the breasts were swapped for a studio audience debating screen violence proved far more popular at TV stations. Warhol, who always had a penchant for voyeuristic recordings (he once asked The Doors’ Jim Morrison if he could film him having sex), created a version featuring model cars ‘driving’ over shirtless models’ chests. The video for The Cars’ 1984’s “Hello Again”, the opening track of 1984’s Heartbeat City, was directed by pop art provocateur Andy Warhol. The uncut butt scene, recreating a moment from 1953 flick From Here To The Eternity, finds Bowie looking more ‘engaged’ with his co-star Geeling Ng than he’d been in most of his actual film appearances. "China Girl" was a big hit single from 1983’s Let’s Dance, but a recut video was required to remove the Bowie buttocks from the closing scenes. While it’s been argued Bowie’s late ‘80s output was a load of arse, it was a literal load of arse causing the Thin White Duke issues with MTV at the beginning of the decade.
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