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  "licence": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "Astradyne Ultravox archive, https://astradyne.org/",
  "generated": "2026-10-11",
  "note": "Entries with \"reviewed\": false have not yet been checked by an editor against their sources.",
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      "slug": "john-foxx",
      "name": "John Foxx",
      "birthName": "Dennis Leigh",
      "roles": [
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      ],
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      "periods": [
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          "from": "1974-04",
          "to": "1979-03"
        }
      ],
      "summary": "Founded the band as Tiger Lily in April 1974 and sang on the three Island albums. Left in March 1979, after the final date of the self-financed US tour.",
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          "note": "Wikidata links two MusicBrainz artist entries to John Foxx; both are kept until the duplicate is resolved upstream."
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        {
          "title": "Ultravox",
          "publisher": "Wikipedia",
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        {
          "title": "Item Q953768",
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      "name": "Chris Cross",
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      ],
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          "to": "1987"
        },
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          "from": "2008",
          "to": "2013"
        }
      ],
      "died": "2024-03-25",
      "summary": "Bassist from the Tiger Lily days to the 1987 split, and again through the 2008–2013 reunion.",
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          "title": "Item Q1440414",
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        }
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    },
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      "slug": "stevie-shears",
      "name": "Stevie Shears",
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      "periods": [
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          "from": "1974-04",
          "to": "1978-03"
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      ],
      "summary": "Guitarist on Ultravox! and Ha! Ha! Ha!. Left the band in early March 1978, after a UK tour.",
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    {
      "slug": "warren-cann",
      "name": "Warren Cann",
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        "backing vocals"
      ],
      "session": false,
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        {
          "from": "1974-05",
          "to": "1986"
        },
        {
          "from": "2008",
          "to": "2013"
        }
      ],
      "summary": "Joined in May 1974. Dismissed in 1986, before U-Vox was recorded; returned for the reunion.",
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        },
        {
          "from": "1992",
          "to": "1996"
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          "from": "2008",
          "to": "2013"
        }
      ],
      "summary": "Joined on violin in October 1974. The only musician in every incarnation of the band, he led the 1992–1996 line-ups. Announced his departure on 4 January 2017.",
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      "name": "Robin Simon",
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      "periods": [
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      ],
      "summary": "Replaced Stevie Shears in 1978 and played on Systems of Romance.",
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      "periods": [
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          "from": "1979",
          "to": "1987"
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        {
          "from": "2008",
          "to": "2013"
        }
      ],
      "summary": "Joined late in 1979 as singer, guitarist and keyboard player. Co-founded Live Aid with Bob Geldof in 1985.",
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      "summary": "Played drums on U-Vox after Warren Cann's dismissal. A session musician, not a member.",
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      "summary": "Singer of the line-up Billy Currie assembled in 1992, heard on Revelation.",
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      "summary": "Replaced Tony Fenelle and sang on Ingenuity.",
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      "summary": "Bassist in the five-piece line-up of 1994–1996. The Wikidata item of the same name (Q5526168) describes a jazz singer and is a different person; it is deliberately not linked.",
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