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Charted at No. 46 on 10th June 1986 - had reached No. 27 by 8th July. It is his fourth solo Top 30 hit in Britain.
Anyone who's been following the 1976 Top Of The Pops re-runs will have noticed that 1986 also marked the tenth anniversary of Ure's first chart appearances as a member of Slik. At this point he was still a member of Ultravox, although they were only a few months away from splitting, and he already had one solo album under his belt but the really big singles were already starting to elude him and this non-album 45 seems pretty much forgotten now; I don't know whether he'd have been more inclined to use it for the next album had it been a bigger hit.
It may not have been intentional, but 'Call Of The Wild' seems now a bit like an attempt to blend the Central European sensibility of Ultravox with some traces of Ure's Scottishness - it didn't occur to me to wonder until today, but the rest of the band weren't actually from Scotland. The video director certainly seems to have picked up on the Celtic element, even if it leaves Ure looking slightly embarassed at the cliché. I've warmed to the man somewhat over the years but this is still a song that seems to huff and puff a lot without really saying anything much. Perhaps I'm not Scottish enough.
Anyway, it's the end of a second side that's been slightly rocky - certainly more so than might have been expected when it started with Chris De Burgh.
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