The Gift (Midge Ure album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Gift
Type = studio
Artist = Midge Ure


Released = Start date|1985|10
Recorded = Music Fest Studio, London
1985
Genre = Synthpop, Electronic
Label = Chrysalis
Producer = Midge Ure
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://wc05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:hpfuxq95ldfe link]
Last album =
This album = "The Gift"
(1985)
Next album = "Answers to Nothing"
(1988)

"The Gift", released in 1985, is the first solo album by former Ultravox frontman Midge Ure. The album was released while Ultravox was taking a break; the band would go on to release "U-Vox" before splitting. The album reached #2 in the UK Albums Chart thanks in part to the large attention drawn to it by the single "If I Was" which reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart.

Track listing

#"If I Was" (Midge Ure, Daniel Mitchell) – 5:22
#"When the Winds Blow" (Ure, Mitchell) – 4:07
#"Living in the Past" (Ian Anderson) – 4:35
#"That Certain Smile" (Ure, Mitchell) – 4:08
#"The Gift" (Ure) – 5:00
#"Antilles" (Ure) – 4:08
#"Wastelands" (Ure, Mitchell) – 4:40
#"Edo" (Ure) – 3:24
#"The Chieftain" (Ure) – 4:45
#"She Cried" (Ure, Mitchell) – 4:12
#"The Gift (Reprise)" (Ure) – 1:45

Bonus tracks for 1996 UK re-release:

#

"Mood Music" – 3:30
#"Piano" (Ure) – 2:28
#"The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie) – 5:37
#"The Gift (Instrumental)" (Ure) – 5:11

Personnel

* Midge Ure – vocals, instrumentation, and production
* Mark King – bass on tracks 1, 3, and 9
* Mae McKenna, Lorenza Johnson, Jackie Challenor – backing vocals on tracks 4 and 7
* Mark Brzezicki – drums on track 7
* Nigel Ross-Scott – bass on tracks 4 and 10
* Lindsay Elliott – drums on track 4
* Glenn Gregory – backing vocals on track 6
* Paul Mosby – mizmar on track 10
* Brian Tench – mixing engineer
* Rik Walton – recording engineer
* John Hudson – co-producer for track 12
* George Hurrell – Photography
* Peter Saville Associates – Design

References

* Liner notes