# Visions in Blue

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"**Visions in Blue**" is [Ultravox](/source/Ultravox)'s third single from the *[Quartet](/source/Quartet_(Ultravox_album))* (1982) album, recorded in [AIR Studios in Montserrat](/source/AIR_Montserrat) and released on [Chrysalis Records](/source/Chrysalis_Records) on 11 March 1983. The single peaked at #15 in the UK charts on 26 March.[3][4][5] A video was produced, but was banned by the BBC and MTV due to brief nudity; an edited version was later provided for broadcast on *[Top of the Pops](/source/Top_of_the_Pops)*.[5]

The track also appears in live form on the CD version of Ultravox's 1983 in-concert album, *[Monument](/source/Monument_(Ultravox_album))*. The 12" version of "Visions in Blue" also contains an edited version of the same *Monument* performance of "[Reap the Wild Wind](/source/Reap_the_Wild_Wind_(song))".[5]

## Critical reception

Deborah Steels of *[Smash Hits](/source/Smash_Hits)* was impressed, reporting "this is 'Vox at their most polished...as good as anything they've ever done." [6]

[David Hepworth](/source/David_Hepworth) of *[Smash Hits](/source/Smash_Hits)* reviewed the song negatively, saying it "sounded awfully dirge-like."[7]

## Track listing

### 7" version

1. "Visions in Blue" [single edit] – 4:13
1. "Break Your Back" – 3:31

### 12" version

1. "Visions in Blue" - 4:38
1. "[Reap the Wild Wind](/source/Reap_the_Wild_Wind_(song)) (live 6 Dec 82 at [Hammersmith Odeon](/source/Hammersmith_Apollo)) " – 3:53
1. "Break Your Back" – 3:31

## Covers

The track has been covered by UK ebm/synthpop act [Stok:holm](/source/Revolution_By_Night) and appears on their 2013 album City Lights.

## References

1. ["\[promotional advertisement\]"](https://www.flickr.com/photos/57779449@N02/51117829556/in/album-72157718946606721). *[Smash Hits](/source/Smash_Hits)*. March 3-16, 1983. p. 54. Retrieved 1 November 2025. – via [Flickr](/source/Flickr)

1. Simpson, Mark (14 February 2014). ["1983: The Last Great Year of Pop"](http://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2014/02/18/1983-last-great-year-pop-mark-simpson). *[Out](/source/Out_(magazine))*. Retrieved 9 March 2025. Other 1983 synthpop singles that got played to death either in the common room or in my bedroom included...the fantastically pretentious and pompous "Visions in Blue" by Ultravox...

1. Betts, Graham (2006). *Complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2006*, HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-720077-3

1. ["The Official Charts Company - Ultravox - Visions in Blue"](https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/Hang%20On%20Now). *[Official Charts](/source/Official_Charts_Company)*. Retrieved 18 March 2009.

1. ["Ultravox discography, Vladimir Kruglov"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121115045340/http://www.discogs.h17.ru/discographies/ultravox_solo.htm). Archived from [the original](http://discogs.h17.ru/discographies/ultravox_solo.htm) on 15 November 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2009.

1. [https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Smash-Hits/1982/Smash-Hits-1982-10-28.pdf](https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Smash-Hits/1982/Smash-Hits-1982-10-28.pdf)

1. Hepworth, David (17–30 March 1983). ["Singles: Ultravox – "Visions in Blue" review"](https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Smash-Hits/1983/Smash-Hits-1983-03-17.pdf). *[Smash Hits](/source/Smash_Hits)*. Vol. 5, no. 6. Peterborough: EMAP National Publications, Ltd. p. 29. [ISSN 0260-3004](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0260-3004). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220928101751/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Smash-Hits/1983/Smash-Hits-1983-03-17.pdf) 28 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 November 2022. – via World Radio History.

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