# Midnight Wire

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Midnight Wire
| type       = Studio album
| artist     = [Curved Air](/source/Curved_Air)
| cover      = Curved_Air_Midnight_Wire.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1975
| recorded   = August 1975
| venue      =
| studio     = [Ramport Studios](/source/Ramport_Studios) (London)
| genre      = [Progressive rock](/source/Progressive_rock), [folk rock](/source/folk_rock)
| length     = 35:18
| label      = BTM
| producer   = Ron and Howard Albert for FAT Productions
| prev_title = [Curved Air – Live](/source/Curved_Air_%E2%80%93_Live)
| prev_year  = 1975
| next_title = [Airborne](/source/Airborne_(Curved_Air_album))
| next_year  = 1976
}}

'''''Midnight Wire''''' is the fifth studio album by [Curved Air](/source/Curved_Air) and was recorded in 1975. It marked another line-up change in the band, with [Darryl Way](/source/Darryl_Way) and [Sonja Kristina](/source/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](/source/Sonja_Kristina), Norma Tager) – 5:06
#"Day Breaks My Heart" ([Darryl Way](/source/Darryl_Way), Tager) – 4:38
#"The Fool" (Way, [Mick Jacques](/source/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](/source/Sonja_Kristina) – lead vocals
* [Darryl Way](/source/Darryl_Way) – [violin](/source/violin)
* [Mick Jacques](/source/Mick_Jacques) – [guitar](/source/guitar)s
* [Stewart Copeland](/source/Stewart_Copeland) – [drums](/source/drum_kit)
;Guest musicians
* [John G. Perry](/source/John_G._Perry) – [bass guitar](/source/bass_guitar)
* Peter Wood – [keyboard](/source/Keyboard_instrument)s
* 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](/source/Ian_Copeland), [Miles Copeland](/source/Miles_Copeland_III), Moray McMillin, Nick Blackburn"

==References==
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{{Curved Air}}

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Category:Curved Air albums
Category:1975 albums

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