ROckWrok

Infobox Single
Name = ROckWrok


Artist = Ultravox!
from Album = Ha!-Ha!-Ha!
A-side = ROckWrok
B-side = "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (Alternate Version)
Released = 14 October 1977
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1977
Genre = Proto punk, New Wave
Length =
Label = Island
Writer = John Foxx, Billy Currie
Producer = Ultravox!
Chart position = (UK)
Last single = "Quirks" (1977)
This single = "ROckWrok" (1977)
Next single = "Frozen Ones" (1978)

"ROckWrok" is a single by the New Wave band Ultravox!, released on October 14 1977 by Island Records. It was the last single released from the "Ha! Ha! Ha!" album, and also the last featuring Stevie Shears as guitarist.

"ROckWrok" features a punk sound derived from Warren Cann's drums and Stevie Shears' guitar alongside John Foxx's hard vocals. It was regularly performed live until Ultravox's U.S. tour in 1979, when John Foxx decided to go solo.

The B-side is a demo of "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (named after the famous French movie), written by John Foxx and Billy Currie. It has a punkier sound than the album version of the song. A third version of the song was performed live on the Old Grey Whistle Test the next year, with Robin Simon replacing Shears as guitarist; it was quieter than the "ROckWrok" single version but maintained the rock style, also differing from the synthpop oriented version on "Ha! Ha! Ha!".

This single, like all the "Ha! Ha! Ha!"-era releases, didn't perform well in the charts.

Track listing

7" version

# "ROckWrok" – 3:33
# "Hiroshima Mon Amour" – 4:54

Personnel

* John Foxx: vocals
* Chris Cross: bass, vocals
* Stevie Shears: guitar
* Warren Cann: drums, vocals
* Billy Currie: keyboards, synthetizer