Before Vienna, before Midge, Ultravox were quite a punky proposition. I remember seeing them at The Marquee in 1977.

They bridged the gap between Glam and Punk with an entirely new element – some slower synth songs which had nothing much to do with either genre.

This isn’t one of those. It’s one of their punkier jumping-about numbers – I remember another called Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead.

In those early days Ultravox! had an exclamation mark (an hommage to Krautrock band Neu!), and a poker-faced lead singer called John Foxx who had announced, somewhat pretentiously, that he was going to “live without emotions.”

They were startlingly prolific and made three albums over the course of 1977-78, the first produced by Brian Eno and Steve Lillywhite, and several later ones by Krautrock guru Conny Planck.

This song dates from 1974 when the band was still called Tiger Lily. The band performing it three years later on this German TV show consists of John Foxx (Dennis Leigh to his mum), Stevie Shears (guitar), Billy Currie (keyboards, violin), Chris Cross (bass) and Warren Cann (drums).

For every song like this, there was a slower synth-based number like My Sex and Hiroshima Mon Amour – one of the first recordings to feature a drum machine.

Foxx, whose first band had boasted the marvellous name Woolly Fish, would leave before Ultravox became big stars with his replacement Midge Ure at the helm, but became a hugely influential figure in the development of electro music.

As for Ultravox!, they found fame and fortune but this meant nothing to me.