FIRST TIME HEARING Visage - Fade To Grey REACTION

[@melindasummers7591]

This was a huge underground club hit in the early and mid 80s. This was also a huge part of my early teen years. Love this song even today

[@Cre80s]

💕💕💕

[@grahamsutherland2054]

Yea, never get sick of this song, back in Scotland in the 80's, not forgetting the MIdge Ure influence in this song and this band. Great stuff.

[@WorksopGimp]

@@grahamsutherland2054 Billy Currie was the synth guy

[@grahamsutherland2054]

@@WorksopGimp Thanks John, I didn't know that makes sense. It was such a magical time of music , maybe I biased (probably)

[@ChrisAndCats]

I broke a window with this and my new stacked hifi I worked all summer for 😳

[@Discobiscuit372]

One of the best songs from the 80s

[@annesmith2259]

This was massive, also I never get sick of listening to it ❤

[@Cre80s]

Ever.

[@FL0RiaN94]

I requested it in an alternative club to the DJ, he played there only on vinyl. Thank god he had the track on vinyl, I was so happy 😁

[@SPOPictures]

Visage means "face" in English ... founded 1978 in London among others by Midge Ure... later then singer of the group Ultravox and also very successful as a solo singer . Fade to grey was a huge hit in Europe and ran in almost all clubs

[@ChrisAndCats]

I was 15 in 1980, 4 days after this was released. This and Vienna are my favourite songs even now.

[@fsibiza]

not to forget Billy Currie (Ultravox) and Rusty Egan

[@Problembeing]

I was lucky to get to know Steve, even DJed for his last birthday and was honoured enough to perform at his memorial in front of his family. It's pronounced 'Vis-ahge' btw :) RIP, dear Steve x

[@ChrisAndCats]

Lucky you! I'd have loved to have gone to the Blitz but lived in North Wales, so no chance.

[@zoemn24]

This is such an iconic tune, this one always gets turned up when it comes on the club classics segments on the radio here in the UK! It sounds so good when it’s on quite loudly in the car.

[@lubilou64]

One of my favourite songs of the 80s. Steve Strange (the singer)was discovered at Blitz nightclub in London, a big influence on the New Romantic era. RIP Steve Strange.

[@annother3350]

He ran the club right? And was on the door deciding if people were cool enough to be allowed in

[@CandleLight1974]

@@annother3350 Yes, he ran the club and decided who could come in and not. He turned Mick Jagger away in 1982!

[@Stevelives13]

@@CandleLight1974 I thought it closed in 81? Either way Steve was already a pop star by then so not likely to be working on the door of a club.

[@32446]

Still a floor filler. Helena Hauff used it in a techno set

[@Congaman41]

Not discovered he owned the Blitz night club.

[@traherne6726]

This was HUGE in the 80’s, and the music video stunning. New Romantic era.

[@MizzInterpreted]

This was huge when I was a young teen. Still adore it! Steve Strange and his iconic look adorned the covers of my school books 😁

[@kcvfr400]

Steve was a Welsh icon of new romantics. This song can never feel old.

[@Cre80s]

This is one of the most significant songs and performers in the burgeoning New Romantic branch of the New Wave movement, a product of the Blitz Kids, a movement in the early 80s, which gave birth to countless more subgenres and bands such as OMD, Duran Duran, and Culture Club. It may seem like a simple track, but it was groundbreaking at the time. Yes, I remember it well.

[@lesleywarnock228]

Awwww yeahhhh!!! Blasting this in my headphones back in the day or dancing in the club smelling the fog machine....I still have my Visage LP 🖤🖤🖤

[@cristinacho7881]

YAY! This is from the “new romantic” era in the early 80’s. Steve Strange, the singer -may he Rest In Peace - had a club in London during those days called Blitz which was a magnet for the New Romantic subculture.

[@sspsfivefivefive]

Fade to grey was in the UK Top 40 in late Dec 1980 and peaked in the first couple of months of 1981. It's a fine example of New Romantic music. Steve Strange either ran or owned the Blitz Club in London that championed the alternative scene. Also working in this club was Boy George (Culture Club) and Pete Burns (Dead Or Alive). Most of the great innovative electronic groups of the early 80s frequented this club. If you come back to Visage, try Damned don't cry, Mind of a toy or Night train. xx

[@mezellenjohnson2753]

I haven't heard this song for years and yes it was the early 80's Jayvee. Its easy to get lost in the video so I just close my eyes and listen. This I found easy to dance to back then though the beat can be quite hypnotic lol. It was wonderful to hear this again and it brings back some great memories thank you. Take care and stay safe please my friends, God bless you all love hugs and peace to everyone Mary-Ellen UK

[@xoxxobob61]

RIP Steve Strange and my New Romantic heroes VISAGE! They also had Hits with "Visage" and "Yesterday's Shadow". A brilliant Band of Musical pioneers at the forefront of New Wave music. (PS:) Steve Strange and his "Blitz Club" crew were in David Bowie's Video "Ashes to Ashes" walking on the beach with him.

[@mkmstillstackin]

Always loved this song! Takes me back to my early pre-teen days and going to underground dance clubs with my buddies.

[@JollyRogerVF84]

One of the best 80's songs. I love listen to the extended version. 😍

[@alisueblogs9029]

The singer Steve Strange ran a nightclub called The Blitz where the new romantic movement kicked off. The house band was Spandau Ballet. At one point Boy George of Culture Club worked in the cloakroom! Midge Ure the singer of ultravox was a member of Visage at one point. Steve Strange also features in the video of David Bowie's Ashes To Ashes. Other acts associated with The Blitz include Sigue Sigue Sputnik Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama and Shakespeare's Sister Sade Little Nell who appears in film The Rocky Horror Picture Show which would make a good film review for your second channel for Halloween! It also features Meat Loaf

[@tlucas9798]

This was the new romantic movement which then turned into new wave. This stuff was innovative and just fun as hell.

[@kevcall]

Don't think that's right, New Wave started out of punk a bit earlier and in parallel to the New Romantic movement. At least that what I remember. The history of what bands were NW had been twisted over the years.

[@antonyware9887]

Historically inaccurate, New Wave emerged from Punk or rather was a sub-genre of Punk, I’d probably position Elvis Costello and the attractions in this genre along with the Police.

[@Kelly-just-kelly]

the french part in this song , Un homme dans une gare isolée Une valise a ses cotés Deux yeux fixes et froids Montre de la peur lorsqu'il Se tourne pour se cacher translates to ...A man in an isolated station A suitcase by his side Two staring and cold eyes Show fear when he Turns to hide

[@Dani-X01]

wow so basically she said the same thing he said in English I didn't knew it thank you.

[@andygozzo72]

@@Dani-X01 near enough 😉

[@cbnewham5633]

@@Dani-X01 The French spoken lyrics are the same as the English sung lyrics (they have the same meaning) for both verses.

[@alanprior7650]

Exactamente...the English repeated en Francais.

[@DawnSuttonfabfour]

Steve! Oh my, the memories with this are multiple and so very enjoyable. I wish I had time to tell you!

[@DawnSuttonfabfour]

Yep yep the 8 minute version is where my memory sparkles! Steve also took over a club called The Camden Palace, which I went to several times. This played over club speakers was damned good.

[@danneykisby3386]

The song and video was years ahead of its time.

[@mthraves]

Jay, it's pronounced Viz-arge. The English words are being repeated in French by the drummers girlfriend. The members of Visage were very influential in the whole early 80s look with the singer Steve Strange and Drummer Rusty Egan having their own club called Blitz which helped to launch Spandau Ballet, Culture Club and many other acts. At the time Fade to Grey was written Midge Ure and Billie Currie from Ultravox were also in the band.

[@charlotte241000]

The movie worried about the boy tells you all about the blitz club and all of what you've just said it is one of my favorite movies ever

[@KeithTheFA]

There's no "r" in Visage.

[@mthraves]

@@KeithTheFA I know, I'm trying to spell it so Jay pronounces it correctly. If I wrote Viz-age I'm sure he might say the "age " part still incorrectly.

[@Cre80s]

@@mthraves I don't know what's considered "correct"; there's how the band themselves would be heard pronouncing it, but British terms-made-titles can still deviate from it in other accents and still be considered correct. Just listen to how Nick Rhodes says Duran Duran, with his "d'chur-ahn d'chur-ahn"... ain’t nobody says it like that in the states, and he’d obviously never call it "wrong." I personally always pronounced Visage "Viz-idge" in the same way I’d pronounce the same actual word in the American lexicon. But, I like to hear the actual Blitz Kids sayin’ it. So kewl! But, kind of a slippery slope to take on the role of pronunciation patrol. My attitude is, as long as people are keeping the name alive, they can say it however they like! 😄

[@annother3350]

@@Cre80s I've never heard anyone pronounce it viz-idge!! How do you pronounce 'mirage'?!

[@clarenceflam]

Visage fronted by Steve Strange. He was one of the 4 people who are behind David Bowie in his Ashes to Ashes video.

[@scatton61]

I used to be a night club DJ in the late 70s and early 80s. I played this a lot, it was a great dance tune. It worked well with Simple Minds, Phsycadelic Furs, the Human leage, Ultravox, Gary numan, OMD, Depeche Mode. Blancmange and Softecell

[@belleooo]

Visage, say it like viz-arge. Belonging to the subculture that was called New Romantics, they took influences from punk, glam rock, electronica, and got banded into the New Wave wagon, very popular in the early 80s Visage was the Daddy of the New Romantics. The fashions spawned from this subculture defined the 80s. If you want to pin point where the 70s ended and the 80s began, you would point to bands like this. This too was a huge part of my teens. I lived, breathed this fantastic era lol.

[@briz1965]

Iconic as new wave had just begun. King's Road London, great gear market and Boy George's shop close by. The height of the times - cool song.

[@edenmoon8275]

One of my favourite 80's songs

[@michelem226]

I love the visual art in this music video. Love the makeup and symbolism.

[@TheRedWaltz24]

One of my favorite under-the-radar 80's songs. Maybe it is just in the States, but I had never heard of this one until I started listening to a lot more early 80's synth. Midge Ure, the main force behind Ultra Vox, was also a founder of this band. Not early 80's, but late 70's, "Magic Fly" by Space, is a great synth song. Should give it a listen.

[@hahatoldyouso]

YES! SOOOOO GOOD!!

[@sjoekiloeki]

This is definitely early 80's, I remember it so well, a little bit kind of dark period and then you also had David Bowie with Ashes To Ashes from the same period....

[@helenchristie6530]

Steve Strange was in the video for Ashes To Ashes.

[@robertbarber1624]

The Blitz club was a venue which was run by Steve Strange and dj Rusty Egan. Steve Strange was the Door Man who was the one who decided whom came in. It was formed so kids who liked to dress up had somewhere to go in safety without the threat of getting beat up. Most of people who attended went on to have great careers in music, art and design and publishing. It started off the scene what became “the New Romantics “. It had a major influence on the formation of dance clubs in the UK. You should be able to find a documentary on KZbin about the New Romantics movement well worth watching.

[@platovaya]

The French lyrics are just a translation of the English lyrics. For example, she says "devenir gris", which means "fade to gray".

[@marcusbyer4100]

...people who grew up in the 80s will understand....

[@maverick2242]

It’s or was New Wave, loved this song then love it now and I wasn’t even in high school yet when it came out, music for us is a universal language don’t care if it’s got bits in French, German or Swedish or any other language, New Wave was about breaking down barriers, being different to conventions.

[@dariussawkulycz4320]

Nice reaction like usually. I remember when you react to worldwide Alphaville hit "Forever Young " You have been very surprised and amazed by the vocalist. Now after nearly 40years you can check how Marian Gold from Alphaville sounds because the is new symphonic version of "Forever Young "

[@carpetslime]

Truly don't understand why so many (definitely British) people in the comments are insisting visage is pronounced with a random extra 'r'? It's French so pronounced veez-aahj, the last part rhymes with the end of mirage (or the US pronunciation of garage).

[@lynnhamps7052]

Pronounced vis, like his and arge like barge...so vis-age ... Means face in french....this was brilliant played super loud at the New Romantic Clubs I'd go to in the 80s..dressed up to the nines and dancing all night....cool times ❤

[@douglastaggart9360]

I've got the 12" version and absolutely brilliant.

[@maelmoor]

Good reaction! This is still such a fantastic song!

[@joannetyndall3625]

Never get tired of hearing this xx

[@paulsheedy4650]

This is one I regularly play at our record party's, the Spinners Group, we call ourselves. It always gets turned up loud. What a classic.😁📀🎶❤️

[@kevcall]

Huge in 80's clubs.. You zoned out to the hypnotic beat. The girl is Belgian I think.. She's repeating the English lyrics in French.

[@The-Weekend-Warrior]

Visage was one of the pioneers of electronic music back in the 80s along with Gary Numan, Ultravox, etc... You got that perfectly :D Also keep in mind that this "electronic" music is actually played live, even the drums (except for the drum machine they used as a "click track") since there were no sequencers at that time to arrange the whole thing!!!!

[@steeeeevenash]

I was born early 80's but the first time I remember hearing this song was on one of those 80's compilation CD adverts on Channel 4 in the daytime in the 90's. They would preview which songs are on the CD for a couple seconds each but so many of them stuck in my head. There were rocks adverts, pop, soul, 50's to 80's compilations etc. A lot of my favourite music outside of hip hop came from these adverts, decades later. You appreciate the creativity much more listening back as an adult, too.

[@Babyboffa2018]

Iconic. RIP Steve Strange.

[@nicolajphilipsen6959]

It was a new Sound, i never forget this master class Sound wow

[@RubyMarkLindMilly]

Still get goosebumps

[@Congaman41]

Was 16 years when I heard this song the first time. I was totally hooked!

[@Dennistube001]

midge ure the singer out of ultravox created the lyrics. hes also the guy that suggested it needed French background vocals. one of his friends girlfriends could speak french, so he hired her to do it. the original instrumental version was created from somebody out of gary numans band and ultravoxes band when they used to practice together. midge only had nine songs on the visage album so asked if he could use the instrumental mess about to create a tenth song, he then named it fade to grey

[@paranormalpendle5920]

Chris Payne and Billy Currie used to jam the early instrumental version of this with Ced Sharpley joining in on drums, in-between rehearsals during Gary Numans 1979 tour. It was originally called 'Toot City'. Billy took it to Midge Ure in the early days of Visage and he turned it into the masterpiece it is.

[@nicholasbuttery511]

Chris Payne wrote the tune in 1976.

[@mikeoxbent523]

Amazing track! 👏

[@blackcoffy83]

Omg... This is one of my all time favorite songs. I constantly have this on my play lists 💖

[@shannonbennett987]

Now, please do some Japan. Please!

[@paulaKaa]

I was at their concert in 2013🙏🏼😍.

[@frigusinanimis3953]

This is pure New Romantics and New Wave.

[@anglosaxon5874]

One of my all time favourite songs! Was 19 when this came out! A massive club song and very influential. Steve Strange was also in David Bowie vids ["Ashes to Ashes"].

[@maha77]

VISAGE is one of my favorite groups of the 80's, whomever recommend this, THANK YOU! Also check *Damned Don't Cry*

[@Canadianbatgirl62]

WOW! I totally forgot about this song. I used to play this constantly ❤❤❤

[@Juliukas101]

This is my favourite song of all time. As French-speaker I can appreciate the lyrics. Visage were not really a band, they were a project. This song was about depression, being aware of your surroundings but being out of it at the same time, and wanting it all to end. The song was ahead of its time in terms of the beat, and the bassline was played on a synth using the Vox Humana setting. I really love the weird video as it has nothing to do with the theme of the song and yet it is sort of arty and theatrical, and very New Wave.

[@jamesflanagan9169]

Jayvee, there is a great documentary film on The Blitz club called,"Blitzed, the 80's kid's story". Steve Strange (lead singer) basically set up a Studio 54 type environment at the Blitz and Rusty Egan(the drummer you hear) was the DJ. They played Roxy music, Bowie, Kraftwerk. And a whole new genera of music came out of that. It was called at that time, "New Romantic". Ultravox, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, Duran Duran , among others came out of this British movement. It was meant to be more elegant than the punk movement which came before.

[@CandleLight1974]

This was from 1981. The girl is saying "devenient gris" - French for "becoming grey". The rest are the lyrics that Steve sang translated into French.

[@IsabelleRSG]

It's always been one of my favorite songs... So dreamy and catchy... I was fascinated by the video clip and the make-up when I was a kid

[@stellarobinson3789]

This Song , Fade to Grey, by Visage , was Epic, Sureal, so beautiful in Steves out of this World Voice.And like u said, the beat was Epic. Big Superstar song , from my Teenage years in 1989s. 😀❤️🌠❤️🎵

[@Panbaneesha]

I was 9 when this came out, but it was still played when I started to frequent the dancefloors - at least at the kind of places I went to in Germany.

[@sysyviv7872]

I was young when Visage released this song. Each Time I Heard it I was afraid. I am older ( a senior 😁) and I like this song, one of the best song of the New wave period. And I am pride, the female singer sings in French. Best regards from France

[@mogznwaz]

I so miss the late 70s early 80s. What a time to get my musical grounding ❤️

[@raquelpinheiro9287]

You have learned so much since the early days of your channel! The reference to New Order's Blue Monday was perfect. Here are some suggestions for your to react because of their uniqueness: Placebo, The Pixies, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Peter Murphy. You could also revisit The Smiths 🤗!

[@alisondobson4036]

A real 80's classic.... I'm a teenager again x

[@MarkTitus420]

Listen to Ultravox for more of this sound.

[@ChrisAndCats]

Visage - pronounced Viz-arje - means face in french. This is my favourite track ever. I had worked all summer to buy a stacked hifi system with large speakers. Mum had moved the speakers and one was on the windowsill (single glazing). I put loudness on, which is extra bass, and when you get that thump of bass in the last part, promptly cracked the window across the corner 😳 the singer here, Steve Strange, founded the Blitz club in London, was involved in lots of other music, and essentially created the New Romantic movement in the UK. Blitz kids from the club were asked to appear in David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes, and many became famous in their own right. Spandau Ballet, Midge Ure of Ultravox, Soft Cell, Bananarama, even Sade I believe was a Blitz kid. The 80s were amazing (I was 15 in 1980).

[@beriandavies2111]

The New Romantic era, where the guys wore more make up than the girls, and everyone was trying to outdo the next person with their wild, and wonderful fashions. The Kings Road was like a catwalk at times. This song is a mood for sure, I love it.

[@katbullock1227]

They sing the English lyrics in French. Steve strange also appeared in the David Bowie video for ashes to ashes. As a group walkings down the beach with a bulldozer and David Bowie’s mother.

[@glynisroberts5029]

Such beautiful music from that era❤

[@davidmorgan1408]

This song was foundational to the 80s sound. MIdge Ure was in this band and went on in another important 80s group - Ultravox. He also had a solo career.

[@Distant394]

What a tune 👍

[@SunShine-qk4rb]

Always takes me back to the 80s great song

[@rhysevs]

Steve Strange - pioneer of the New Romantics and genius Welshman 😎

[@user-DJDreamworld]

Yazoo - Only You

[@bryanforis1839]

When you go to a place like 👍 disco it was amazing in concert place radio great song

[@mrmeerkat6055]

One of the best songs of the 80s RIP Steve.

[@louisaklimentos7583]

I loved this song and the lady spoke in French .

[@charlotteschmidt5141]

This is Steve Strange and he had a club called the Blitz which was the place to be and Visage started out to make music for the club. Or so I’ve heard!!! Lol You should look him up sometime, he was a figurehead of the new wave/ new romantic movement in the early eighties!!!

[@vrsimha]

It's pronounced as VEESAGE(Visage) . A song produced by Midge Ure from Ultravox . Lead vocalist is the late Steve Strange.

[@lotuselise4432]

Brings memories as I was a New Romantic fun times.

[@CandleLight1974]

Steve Strange (born Stephen John Harrington, he adopted his stage name from the Marvel character Doctor Stephen Strange) was one of the biggest names and most influential people in the UK's early 80s New Romantics movement that spawned so many worldwide stars such as Culture Club/BoyGeorge, Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran amongst others. Whatever happened to the planned Steve Srange biopic that Boy George was going to produce and Adam Lambert was going to star in?

[@roboi2241]

Pronounced 'Vis Arge' with a french inflection on the A. It's that euro-beat and electronica associated with Kraftwerk snd Giorgio Moroder which was very influential on the disco scene, the electronic and new romantic bands in England in the 80s and even early hip-hop.

[@chiachy35]

this sounded futuristic in 1982 and still does today.steve strange and julia fodor (princess julia) were the original blitz kids from the new romantic movement in the UK. being boiled-human league underpass-john foxx are friend electric-gary numan

[@JeterSwisherFan88]

The beat and the bass line definitely rock in this song.

[@racheldicker5611]

Steve strange was in david bowie ashes to ashes video

[@martyg11]

My favourite all time track, synonymous with my youth. Melancholy but powerful (the Pet Shop Boys later coined the phrase ‘tragi-disco’) it was never supposed to have mass appeal but it captured the spirit of the times and remains a classic 80s track. The intro is spine tinglingly good; the part where the siren fades and the synths come in still gives me goosebumps. Some say it’s a triumph of form over content and yet it has a profound depth. The video depicts Adam and Eve’s fall from paradise, becoming conscious of their mortality and frailty.

[@juliethomson1312]

Steve Strange was an icon of the New Romantics in the 80s the best era ever!

[@dr.zacking2097]

Great reaction, can't add much more to the comments below but yes, early club tune that still has it....still gets my foot stomping

[@lisadavie5819]

Midge Ure is Jim backwards.. Midge was in Ultravox and was the man behind Bandaid do they know it's Christmas. He's also from Cambuslang in Glasgow Scotland. x

[@TheIgisas]

One of my trump cards of songs. It basically mentions our friendships and relationships how we all leave them out without explanation. So You have to pretend maybe but also remain the image of someone so that You want to admire and feel comfortable being Yourself or with them again. Not in a manipulative way. But just codependency vs independence of leaving the situations of actions and situations while You are in a relationship or friends with someone. I love it. It can also interpreted a relationship to God. Keep it image of the idea of him or the image.

[@susangarvey9415]

R.I.P. to an old friend Steve.

[@user-DJDreamworld]

JAY happy to see you