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The Meaning Behind The Song: Answer Me by Original Broadway Cast of The Band’s Visit

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“Answer Me” by the Original Broadway Cast of The Band’s Visit captures the visceral longing we sometimes experience in our relationships. With beautiful melodies and heartfelt lyrics, this song resonates with anyone who has felt the ache of waiting for a loved one’s response.

At the beginning of the song, we are introduced to “Telephone Guy,” a character who is anxiously waiting for someone to pick up the phone. The repetition of the lines “Here I am” and “Where are you? Will you answer me?” emphasizes the speaker’s desperate desire for connection. The fading light symbolizes the fading hope, creating an atmosphere of longing and anticipation.

The chorus echoes the universal sentiment of feeling alone in the quiet. The character’s ears are thirsty for the sound of their loved one’s voice. This longing for connection is something we can all relate to, as we live in a world filled with distractions and constant noise.

The lyrics take a more poetic turn as the character imagines the possibility of seeing their loved one’s shadow in the sodium light that masquerades as the moon. This image conveys the character’s willingness to find any sign of their loved one, even in the most unlikely places. The idea of taking off like a sparrow and traveling along a guiding breeze suggests the hope of finding solace and comfort in the presence of the one they long for.

The line “That’s the sound of longing” encapsulates the essence of the entire song. The very sound of the speaker’s voice is filled with longing and yearning for an answer. It conveys the depth of their emotions and the urgency they feel to be heard and acknowledged.

The song then introduces other characters who join in with their own expressions of longing. This sense of community and shared experiences further emphasizes the universality of the song’s themes. Each character brings their perspective and personal story, showing that the desire for connection and answers transcends individual circumstances.

For me, “Answer Me” holds a special place in my heart. It reminds me of a time when I too found myself waiting anxiously by the phone, hoping for a response. The song captures the rollercoaster of emotions one goes through while waiting and the vulnerability that comes with putting yourself out there.

As the music swells and the chorus harmonizes, the lyrics “Only you when the sun and moon and stars are gone, what’s left is only you” convey the speaker’s belief that their loved one is the only constant in their world. Despite the uncertainty and the passage of time, their love remains unwavering.

The beauty of “Answer Me” lies in its ability to evoke emotions and touch the hearts of listeners. It speaks to the universal human experience of longing for connection and answers. Whether waiting for a phone call or searching for answers within ourselves, we all have moments when we ask, “Will you answer me?”

In conclusion, “Answer Me” by the Original Broadway Cast of The Band’s Visit is a poignant song that delves into our innate desire for connection and answers. With heartfelt lyrics and a beautiful melody, it captures the essence of longing and the vulnerability that comes with waiting for a response. This song resonates with anyone who has ever experienced the ache of waiting for a loved one to answer.

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Novgorod merchants were the first ones who got interested in the Great Perm (furs and tributes). In the 14th - the first half of the 15th centuries, the Grand Duchy of Moscow began to encroach on the lands in the upper Kama. In the early 15th century, the first Russian settlements were founded in the Great Perm.

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It remained the main mining area of the Russian Empire until the end of the 19th century. There were more than 110 mining plants producing cast iron, iron, steel. For a long time, it was the main provider of copper. Salt production was also developed. In the east of the Urals large deposits of platinum were discovered. By the end of the 19th century, gold mining grew twice.

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By 1979, the Scottish musician James “Midge” Ure had played in the bands Slik, Rich Kids, Visage and Thin Lizzy. During his time in Visage – a collective that included Rich Kids drummer Rusty Egan and Ultravox multi-instrumentalist Billy Curie – Ure experienced an opportunity that would change his and Ultravox’s career forever. At that time, Ultravox's previous lead singer, John Foxx, had left the group and Island Records dropped the group from its roster after a U.S. tour.

“It was Rusty who said to Billy, ‘[Midge is] the guy that should be in your band,’” recalls Ure decades later. “‘He's what you need.’ And I jumped at the chance of joining this band who were broken but had all these skills, all this knowledge about electronics. They'd been dealing with this stuff a long time. It just felt like coming home. I found my musical home.”

Midge Ure joined Ultravox – which included Currie, bassist Chris Cross and drummer Warren Cann – as their new singer and guitarist in 1979. After that crucial addition, Ultravox revived their fortunes with a string of U.K. hit singles (among them “Vienna,” “Dancing With Tears in My Eyes” and “Reap the Wild Wind”) and albums during the 1980s. Outside of Ultravox, Ure found success as a solo artist (”If I Was,” “Dear God”) and the co-writer with Bob Geldof of the Band Aid charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

Forty-five years later after hooking up with Ultravox, Ure continues his former group’s legacy with his current North American tour titled Band in a Box . Accompanied by keyboardist Charlie Round-Turner, Ure will be performing Ultravox and solo material via synths and guitar augmented by loops, samples and programmed drums, per an earlier news release announcement.

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“The idea of it really went against the grain, especially when you think of Ultravox back in the day,” says Ure of the current tour. “We ended up touring with 25-26 keyboards on stage. [But it was] still only four of us because we refused to use tracks or prerecorded tapes or prerecorded sequencers.

“Of course, that's a whole different ball game now,” he continues. “People see that in a different light. So I did this two years ago when I joined the Howard Jones tour and he wanted to do a kind of electronic package. I ended up doing this band-in-the-box thing there in order to justify coming out to America to do it. And people loved it.”

Of performing in the U.S., a territory that Ultravox never conquered during their existence as opposed to their huge popularity in the U.K., Ure says: “I think American audiences in general tend to be more exuberant. They tend to wear their hearts on the sleeves – not saying that the Brits don't. There'll be some audience members who've followed me all the way through: Rich Kids, Ultravox and solo stuff. You can see the sparkle in their eyes when you start something that they've never heard live. That's a different sensation for me.”

Ure can easily claim a stake as one of the key players in the British synthpop movement that grew out of the New Romantic period in the late 1970s as punk rock was winding down. It goes back to Ure's days in Rich Kids with Egan. “I bought a synthesizer in 1979, brought it into Rich Kids, which killed the band, split the band in two, right down the middle,” he says. “Half the band hated it, half the band loved it. So Rusty and I formed Visage purely to play in the small club that he used to DJ in.”

That club was Billy's in London, which later would set the stage for Blitz, the nightclub Egan and the late Steve Strange co-founded and became the epicenter of the New Romantic movement. “We decided that we wanted to make music that we could play in his club,” Ure recalls of Billy’s. “Nothing bigger than that, but we wanted to do it with our favorite musicians. Some of our favorite musicians were from the Manchester band Magazine, and another favorite musician was Billy Currie from Ultravox.”

Visage, the synthpop collective that consisted of Ure, Egan, Currie, Strange and Magazine's John McGeoch and Barry Adamson, scored a hit with the 1980 song “Fade to Grey.” But by then, Ure became the new guy in Ultravox, which released that same year the highly successful Vienna album and its unforgettable anthemic title song.

““Vienna” went against the grain of what radio would have played at the time,” Ure says. “We weren't interested in commercial success. If we attained enough success to stay alive and make interesting music, that was fine. As I said before, that was my musical home. I came in there and the constraints of writing three-minute pop records were gone. All of a sudden, I could experiment with these guys.

“It was by default, I suppose, that the band was elevated beyond the status when “Vienna” got played on the radio,” Ure continues. “Once people heard “Vienna,” it became the huge commercial success that it did. It changed everything. But we kept on experimenting. We kept on pushing the boundaries and trying different things, which was amazing. So it wasn't about trying to achieve commercial success. It was trying to achieve musical success and musical satisfaction.”

More hit albums and singles followed for Ultravox in the next couple of years—including 1984's Lament , which marked the first time the band members produced an album themselves after previously collaborating with Conny Plank and George Martin; its biggest hit was “Dancing With Tears in My Eyes.” Ure says that the band was ready to take over the production reins.

“When we signed to Chrysalis Records, they kept asking us to do demo tapes, and we said ‘no.’ Not because we were being pedantic about it, but because you do a demo tape and you're relaxed because it's not a proper recording. Sometimes you can capture something in a demo tape that you can't recreate. It's gone. And Chrysalis finally said, ‘Look, here's two days in the studio. Do something. We need to hear something before we can sign you.’ So we recorded “Sleepwalk” [which later appeared on the Vienna album]. We produced that on our own and then gave them one song. And they signed us on the strength of that one song.

“By the time we did the Lament album [after having our records produced by Plank and Martin], circumstances had changed. I had my own studio. It was easier to record in my back garden, a very relaxed scenario in writing and recording all at the same time. And we came up with the Lament album. So it worked at the time. The time was right for doing it.”

Earlier this year, Ure's former Ultravox bandmate Chris Cross died at the age of 71 , nixing any possibility of an Ultravox reunion after the group's 2012 album Brilliant . “Instantly, we hit it off,” Ure remembers of meeting Cross for the first time. “Chris and I had the same sense of humor. We liked the same things. We were interested in photography and graphics. We were just very compatible. We were like the big buddies in the band, designing the stage sets. We directed the videos together. So it was a massive shock when [his death] happened because it came completely out of the blue. It was a real crushing blow. It certainly put an end to any thoughts of that four-man Ultravox [classic lineup] ever reforming.”

After the resumption of his solo career, Ure has been busy touring and releasing music such as 2014's Fragile and 2017's Orchestrated , the latter a collection of Ultravox and Ure’s solo songs re-recorded with an orchestra. Last year, he re-released his 1985 solo debut album The Gift as a deluxe edition. As far as a new record goes, Ure says: “I'm constantly writing. There is no pressure to release anything. You don't have a record label banging on your door saying, "We need this next month or next year or whatever." So you just take your time. I'm kind of 75% there with a new album. And I'll complete it when I finally stop touring. ( chuckles ) It's ready when it's ready.”

Following the Band in a Box tour, Ure will be back performing in the U.K. under the Catalogue: The Hits banner in the U.K. later this year and Germany in 2025. In contrast to Band in a Box , the Catalogue tour will feature Ure with a full band. “I did the Royal Albert Hall last October for my 70th birthday,” he says. “And that was quite something. When we did that, I realized that people still wanted to hear those songs. They still want to relive those moments. They still want to hear that sonic landscape that we can make. So the Catalogue tour was born out of that.”

And given the “catalogue” name for his next tour, Ure says that he may delve into the music from the early part of his career in addition to his solo, Ultravox and Visage material. “I think I might do a Rich Kids tune in there. And I might even throw a Thin Lizzy song in as well because even though I didn't write it, it's part of that journey. So it kind of kind of widens the spectrum that I can actually delve into. That should be a bit of fun.”

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Noel and Liam Gallagher have put a 15-year feud behind them to get the band back together. "Come see. It will not be televised," they warned in their announcement. So how can you get tickets?

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Oasis are finally reuniting 15 years after they split, having announced a huge UK tour.

The iconic Manchester band's official social media accounts shared the dates of its 14 UK and Ireland shows, which will take place over July and August next year.

Speculation about a reunion grew in the weeks leading up to the announcement after years of Noel and Liam Gallagher's public feuding had made fans question whether it would ever happen.

"Come see. It will not be televised," they warned in their statement .

But when exactly are the dates for the brothers' on-stage reunion and how can you get tickets? Here's everything you need to know.

When and where are the concerts?

• 4 July 2025 - Principality Stadium, Cardiff • 5 July 2025 - Principality Stadium, Cardiff • 11 July 2025 - Heaton Park, Manchester • 12 July 2025 - Heaton Park, Manchester • 16 July 2025 - Heaton Park, Manchester • 19 July 2025 - Heaton Park, Manchester • 20 July 2025 - Heaton Park, Manchester • 25 July 2025 - Wembley Stadium, London • 26 July 2025 - Wembley Stadium, London • 30 July 2025 - Wembley Stadium, London • 2 August 2025 - Wembley Stadium, London • 3 August 2025 - Wembley Stadium, London • 8 August 2025 - Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh • 9 August 2025 - Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh • 12 August 2025 - Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh • 16 August 2025 - Croke Park, Dublin • 17 August 2025 - Croke Park, Dublin

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All tickets will go on sale on Saturday 31 August. The Dublin dates will be on sale from 8am and the UK dates will go on sale at 9am .

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But fans can now register to be in a pre-sale ballot until 10am (UK time) on Friday morning.

The deadline was originally 7pm on Wednesday but the band changed it due to "a last minute surge" in entries.

Successful applicants in the ballot will be informed by 5pm on Friday via email with full access information, however, this does not guarantee fans a ticket as they are still sold on a first come first served basis.

The band has warned fans on social media that confirmation emails for the ballot entry may be delayed due to a high volume of people signing up, but has assured them that anyone who has filled in a ballot correctly before the deadline will receive one.

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The ticket sites offer key advice for fans looking to have an edge over others in the race for in-demand tickets.

Here's a summary of their biggest tips:

• Don't wait until Saturday morning to register. This will mean you have plenty of time to get your account set up with all the right billing and delivery information • Verify your account. You have to add your phone number and confirm a one-time passcode with new accounts for protection. You only need to do it once • If you already have an account, double-check it. It's worth logging in before Saturday just to check you know your password, your delivery and billing information is all correct, and to ensure you've already completed your one-time passcode • Make sure your card details are already saved to avoid last-minute scrambling • Get your phones and laptops charged before the deadline • Make sure you're happy with your internet connection. Private WiFi is best, and if that isn't working, Ticketmaster advises using your mobile data over public WiFi, which it says is "usually the least reliable" • Don't refresh the page while in a waiting room. Ticketing sites use a queuing system when they get busy, meaning you get put in an online waiting room with other fans. They warn that refreshing the page won't move you further up the line, and that the page itself updates automatically. So once you're in, wait it out...

How many tickets can I buy and how expensive could they be?

You can get a maximum of four tickets per transaction, and you aren't permitted to sell them for more than you bought them for, according to event organisers.

The price of tickets hasn't been announced yet, though the Manchester Evening News has reported they are expected to exceed £100.

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Back in 2009, just over a month before Oasis split, the band performed at Wembley Stadium and charged £38.50 plus VAT (which at the time was 15%), meaning the total cost was just over £44.

When Sky News put those numbers into the Bank of England's inflation calculator, the total was £68.02 - which is still considered low nowadays.

Will there be another chance to buy tickets?

There won't be another official sale, but you may be able to snatch resale tickets.

On its website, Oasis says it has partnered with Ticketmaster and ticket resale platform Twickets to ensure tickets aren't resold for more than the price originally paid - including booking fees.

The band has also warned those reselling the tickets that selling through any other platforms will breach the terms and conditions of the sale and may result in the tickets being cancelled.

Do you even deserve tickets?

Since the announcement, social media has been flooded by debate about who this concert is really for.

"What's your favourite B-side?" - an eligibility test being used by people who "were at Knebworth".

Die-hard Oasis fans who were there in the 90s will say they are the ones who most deserve to get their hands on tickets.

"Imagine waiting 15 years for Oasis to reform only to lose out on tickets to Chloe, 21 from Stockport who just wants to hear Wonderwall live", one X user posts.

In response, another writes: "Obsessed with all the men creating fictional young women who they might lose out on Oasis tickets to."

Analysis by Gemma Peplow , culture and entertainment reporter

"Like most kids, my parents influenced my music taste growing up, from Bruce Springsteen and Tina Turner to the Rolling Stones.

"Kylie Minogue, obviously, was also a big feature in my cassette collection.

"But Oasis were the first band that felt like mine, not music I'd inherited.

"As a teenager I listened over and over, studied the album covers, and went on to see them live five times, each gig holding different memories and anecdotes. For those of us who grew up with them, they embodied our youth, the spirit of the '90s.

"But that doesn't mean these gigs belong to the older fans, which, like it or not, is the bracket I fall into now. You only have to see all the teenagers and younger adults at Liam's solo shows to see how Oasis's songs resonate with different generations. The music has stood the test of time, which can only be a good thing.

"Those gatekeeping fans are most likely the same as those complaining about how all music is rubbish these days. Well, you can't have it both ways.

"If I'm lucky enough to get tickets, I hope to be singing along with bucket-hat wearing fans of all ages."