{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Midnight Wire | type = Studio album | artist = Curved Air | cover = Curved_Air_Midnight_Wire.jpg | alt = | released = 1975 | recorded = August 1975 | venue = | studio = Ramport Studios (London) | genre = Progressive rock, folk rock | length = 35:18 | label = BTM | producer = Ron and Howard Albert for FAT Productions | prev_title = Curved Air – Live | prev_year = 1975 | next_title = Airborne | next_year = 1976 }}

'''''Midnight Wire''''' is the fifth studio album by Curved Air and was recorded in 1975. It marked another line-up change in the band, with Darryl Way and Sonja Kristina recruiting new musicians after the end of the reunion tour marked by the ''Curved Air - Live'' album. Kristina's friend Norma Tager, who had helped design the costumes she wore on stage from Curved Air's reunion in 1974 to their breakup in 1976,<ref name="cherry">{{cite web | author = | date = 14 September 2008| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K7M_oXwYtk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/1K7M_oXwYtk |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live| title = Cherry Red TV interview | publisher = Cherry Red Records | accessdate = 2009-09-30}}{{cbignore}}</ref> contributed all the lyrics to the songs.

==Background and recording== The album's recording was marked by intense and bitter arguments between the band and producers Ron and Howard Albert, who often vehemently criticized the band members.<ref>Sutcliffe, Phil & Fielder, Hugh (1981). ''L'Historia Bandido''. London and New York: Proteus Books. {{ISBN|0-906071-66-6}}. p. 16.</ref>

==Track listing== ===Side one=== #"Woman On A One Night Stand" (Sonja Kristina, Norma Tager) – 5:06 #"Day Breaks My Heart" (Darryl Way, Tager) – 4:38 #"The Fool" (Way, Mick Jacques, Tager) – 4:27 #"Pipe of Dreams" (Jacques) – 3:58

===Side two=== #"Orange Street Blues" (Way, Tager) – 5:01 #"Dance of Love" (Jacques, Way, Tager) – 4:36 #"Midnight Wire" (Way, Tager) – 7:32

==Personnel== ;Curved Air * Sonja Kristina – lead vocals * Darryl Way – violin * Mick Jacques – guitars * Stewart Copeland – drums ;Guest musicians * John G. Perry – bass guitar * Peter Wood – keyboards * Derek Damain – backing vocals on "The Fool" ;Technical * Will Reid-Dick – engineer * Bob Searles, Liz Gilmore – sleeve design "Thanks to Beric Wickens, Carolann Nicholls, Ian Copeland, Miles Copeland, Moray McMillin, Nick Blackburn"

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Category:Curved Air albums Category:1975 albums