Answers to Nothing

Answers to Nothing is the second solo studio album by Scottish musician Midge Ure, released in August 1988 by Chrysalis Records. It was the first release by Ure following the demise of Ultravox. Background Ure wrote, produced and recorded all the songs round 10 months in his 24-track home studio. As a solo artist, Ure only hit the singles chart once in America with the single "Dear God". It reached No. 95 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 6 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and at No. 4 on the US Billboard Alternative Music chart in 1989. He filmed the music video to "Dear God" in Los Angeles. The album had an provenance in that it grew out of the broadening of Ure's social consciousness during the past four years. It was a development out of the personal scale to the global. He was forever changed by his involvement with Live Aid. He actually accompanied the first shipment made to Ethiopia. His direct confrontation with the conditions of starvation and death was the most powerful experience of his life. In addition, his recent embrace of marriage and fatherhood had only reinforced his commitment to caring about the state of the world. All of these changes had found their way into his work. Bob Clearmountain mixed the whole album in a week at Air Studios in Montserrat.