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Christopher Thomas Allen (14 July 1952 – 25 March 2024), known professionally as Chris Cross, was an English musician, best known as the bass guitarist in the new wave band Ultravox. After starting his music career with Stoned Rose, a band in Preston, Lancashire, he was one of the founding members of the band Tiger Lily in 1973, before the band was renamed Ultravox three years later. The band's most successful single, "Vienna", was released in 1981.
Cross left Ultravox in 1989, several years after the band's studio album U-Vox was released in 1986. He rejoined the band after their revival in 2009 with a tour, and Ultravox released Brilliant, another studio album, three years later. Cross died in 2024 at the age of 71.
Biography
= Early years
=Christopher Thomas Allen was born in Tottenham, London, England, on 14 July 1952. He went to Belmont Secondary Modern School and William Forster Comprehensive. He began his music career playing in different bands, with his major early influences being Small Faces, Desmond Dekker and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
Later he joined Stoned Rose, in Preston, Lancashire, but also decided to go to college to study psychology, a longstanding interest.
= Tiger Lily and Ultravox
=After his time at college he returned to London to apply at the Royal College of Art. Meanwhile, after answering an advertisement, the band Tiger Lily was created in 1973, with the founding members consisting of Cross (then identified as Chris St. John), singer Dennis Leigh, guitarist Stevie Shears, drummer Warren Cann, and violinist/keyboardist Billy Currie. After playing gigs from 1974 to 1976, in the latter year the band renamed themselves Ultravox! and signed to Island Records.
In 1979, after three commercially unsuccessful but influential albums – Ultravox! (1977), Ha!-Ha!-Ha! (1977) and Systems of Romance (1978) – original vocalist John Foxx and guitarist Robin Simon, who had replaced Stevie Shears a year before, left Ultravox.
Midge Ure joined Ultravox in 1979, and the band released their commercially successful Vienna album a year later. By that time Cross and Ure were close friends; they together directed music videos such as Bananarama's "Shy Boy" and "The Telephone Always Rings" by Fun Boy Three. The band then produced another few successful albums: Rage in Eden (1981), Quartet (1982), Monument (1983) and Lament (1984). After U-Vox, a studio album released in 1986, Cross left Ultravox in 1989 and pursued a career as a psychotherapist. Before Cross's departure, Ure had also left the band to perform as a solo artist before rejoining, but Cross noted the band "fell apart" after Ure rejoined, also stating "it was like everyone lost interest".
= Ultravox revival
=In April 2009, Ultravox embarked on the "Return to Eden" tour, which included two festivals and a Best of Ultravox CD/DVD being released by EMI.
The 2012 album release, Brilliant, included Cross as co-writer with Billy Currie and Midge Ure on all tracks. The album was promoted with a UK theatre tour and a series of European dates. Ultravox made their final performance in 2013, at The O2 in London.
Death
Cross died on 25 March 2024, at the age of 71. His death was announced on 1 April by Ultravox member Midge Ure, who did not specify Cross's cause of death.
References
External links
Chris Cross discography at Discogs
Chris Cross at IMDb
Christopher Williams, who goes by ChrisCross, is a comic book illustrator, known mostly for his stints pencilling Milestone Comics' Blood Syndicate and Heroes, Marvel Comics' Captain Marvel and Slingers and DC Comics' Firestorm. He created the comic book character Jason Rusch with Dan Jolley.
Education and career
Williams attended New York City's School of Visual Arts in the early 1990s. While doing so, he caught his big break doing work for the DC Comics imprint, Milestone Comics, which sought to publish a line of comics aimed at attracting a more multicultural audience.
He has also worked on other series such as Firestorm and The Outsiders for DC comics. In the early 2000s he worked on a series of hardcover graphic novels for international publishing house, Humanoids, Inc., before returning to the States to continue American comics, starting on Midnighter #11.
Bibliography
Interior comic work includes:
Cat and Mouse #13 (with Roland Mann, Tim Eldred and Steven Butler, Aircel, 1993)
Blood Syndicate #3, 5–14, 16–17, 19, 21–23, 25-30 (with Ivan Velez, Jr., Milestone, 1993–1995)
Worlds Collide: "Chapter Seven" (with various writers and artists, one-shot, Milestone, 1994)
Hardware #11: "Shadow and Act" (inks on Denys Cowan, written by Dwayne McDuffie, Milestone, 1994)
Icon #20: "The Big Bang Theory" (with Dwayne McDuffie, Mark D. Bright and John Paul Leon, Milestone, 1994)
Shadow Cabinet #17: "No Difference in the Dark" (inks on John Paul Leon, written by Matt Wayne, Milestone, 1995)
Man Against Time #4: "The Butterfly Effect" (with Brett Lewis and David Quinn, Image, 1996)
Heroes #1-4 (with Matt Wayne, Milestone, 1996)
Xero #1-8, 11 (with Christopher Priest, DC Comics, 1997–1998)
Solar, Man of the Atom: Hell on Earth #1-4 (with Christopher Priest and Patrick Zircher, Acclaim, 1998)
New Year's Evil: Dark Nemesis: "Turncoat!" (with Dan Jurgens, one-shot, DC Comics, 1998)
X-Man #35-38, Annual '98 (with Terry Kavanagh, Marvel, 1998)
Slingers #1-3, 5–6, 9-10 (with Joe Harris, Marvel, 1998–1999)
Shadowman vol. 3 #3: "Asylum Seeker" (with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, Acclaim, 1999)
Captain Marvel vol. 3 #0-3, 6–10, 12–13, 15–16, 19–25, 27, 29-30, 33 and vol. 4 #1-3, 5 (with Peter David, Marvel, 1999–2003)
The Craptacular B-Sides #1: "Graduation Day" (with Brian David-Marshall, co-feature, Marvel, 2002)
X-Men Unlimited #48: "Control" (with Chuck Austen, anthology, Marvel, 2003)
Outsiders vol. 3 #4-6: "Brothers in Blood" (with Judd Winick, DC Comics, 2003–2004)
JLA #83, 90 (with Joe Kelly, DC Comics, 2003–2004)
Firestorm vol. 3 #1-5 (with Dan Jolley, DC Comics, 2004)
Néféritès: L'Embaumeur (with Sylviane Corgiat and Patrick Galliano, graphic novel, Les Humanoïdes Associés, 2006)
Dead High Yearbook: "Chapter Three: Devil Dog of the Damned" (with Jennifer Camper, graphic novel, Penguin Books, 2007)
Welcome to Tranquility #8: "Zombie Zeke: Dead End Highway" (with Gail Simone, co-feature, Wildstorm, 2007)
Midnighter #11: "Anthem, Part Two" (with Keith Giffen, Wildstorm, 2007)
Justice League of America vol. 2 #29: "Star Struck!" (with Len Wein, DC Comics, 2009)
Gotham Gazette #1-2: "Stephanie Brown" (with Fabian Nicieza, co-feature, DC Comics, 2009)
Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance #1, 3–4, 6 (with Joe Casey, DC Comics, 2009)
Milestone Forever #2 (with Dwayne McDuffie, John Paul Leon and Denys Cowan, Milestone, 2010)
Spike: The Devil You Know #1-4 (with Bill Williams and José María Beroy, IDW Publishing, 2010)
Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes #5 (with Paul Tobin, Marvel, 2010)
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents vol. 3 #2: "Live Fast, Die Young" (with Nick Spencer and CAFU, DC Comics, 2011)
Superman/Batman #81-84: "Sorcerer Kings" (with Cullen Bunn, DC Comics, 2011)
Supergirl vol. 5 #65-67: "This is Not My Life" (with Kelly Sue DeConnick, DC Comics, 2011)
Batwing #4: "Better at Terrible Things" (with Judd Winick, DC Comics, 2012)
Action Comics vol. 2 #5-6 (with Sholly Fisch, co-feature, DC Comics, 2012)
Smallville Season 11 Chapters 13–15, 19, 21 (with Bryan Q. Miller, digital, DC Comics, 2012)
Superboy vol. 5 #20: "A Wretched H.I.V.E." (with Justin Jordan, among other artists, DC Comics, 2013)
Green Lantern Corps vol. 3 #18, Annual #1 (with Peter Tomasi, DC Comics, 2013)
Bloodshot vol. 3 #0 (with Matt Kindt, Valiant, 2013)
Archer and Armstrong vol. 2 #15-17: "Sect Civil War" (with Fred Van Lente and Khari Evans, Valiant, 2013–2014)
Justice League Dark #23.1: "Twisted" (with Dan DiDio and Ann Nocenti, among other artists, DC Comics, 2013)
Bloodshot and the H.A.R.D. Corps (with Joshua Dysart and Christos N. Gage, Valiant):
"Get Some" (with Bart Sears, in #17-19, 2014)
"Rise and Fall" (with Joseph Cooper and Valentine De Landro, in #0, 2014)
Katana #9: "Ghost Warriors" (with Ann Nocenti and Cliff Richards, DC Comics, 2014)
Green Lantern/New Gods: Godhead (with Van Jensen and Justin Jordan, among other artists, one-shot, DC Comics, 2014)
Convergence: Justice League of America #1-2: "Heroes Interrupted" (with Fabian Nicieza, DC Comics, 2015)
Superman/Wonder Woman Annual #2: "Taking a Breath" (with Keith Champagne, co-feature, DC Comics, 2016)
Bankshot #1-4 (of 5) (with Alex De Campi, Dark Horse, 2017)
Kino #5-9 (with Joe Casey and Chris Batista (#9), Catalyst Prime, 2018)
Bloodshot: Rising Spirit #7-8 (with Eliot Rahal, among other artists, Valiant, 2019)
Justice League Odyssey #14: "Enemy of My Enemy" (with Dan Abnett and Cliff Richards, DC Comics, 2019)
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External links
The ChrisCrosser Blog
The ChrisCrossr picture blog
ChrisCross-X facebook page
ChrisCrosser FanPage
The New ChrisCrosser Blog
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