One Small Day

"One Small Day"
Single by Ultravox
from the album Lament
B-side"Easterly"
Released3 February 1984
RecordedMusicfest Studio, 1983
GenrePop rock, new wave
Length4:27
7:48 (Special re-mix)
8:31 (Special re-mix extra)
LabelChrysalis
Songwriter(s)Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie, Midge Ure
Producer(s)Ultravox
Ultravox singles chronology
"We Came to Dance"
(1983)
"One Small Day"
(1984)
"Dancing with Tears in My Eyes"
(1984)

"One Small Day" is the first single from Ultravox's seventh studio album, Lament, released on 3 February 1984.[1] It peaked at #27 in the UK Singles Chart.[2]

The song is unusual for Ultravox in that it is mainly guitar rather than synth driven.

The 'performance' part of the music video was shot in very cold conditions over the weekend of Saturday, 14 - Sunday, 15 January 1984, primarily at the Callanish III standing stones site at Callanish on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles) of Scotland. Other non-performance parts were filmed at the main Callanish I standing stones site and edited into the video and featured individual band members reflected in vertically placed triangular-shaped mirrors.

The song was also performed at the 1985 Live Aid concert.

  1. ^ "Day out". Record Mirror. London, England: United Newspapers: 6. 28 January 1984.
  2. ^ "The Official Charts Company - Ultravox - One Small Day". Official Charts. Retrieved 9 January 2010.