Midge Ure, Esq, OBE

Career: singer, songwriter, prodr and video dir; with bands: Slik (number one single Forever and Ever 1976), The Rich Kids, Thin Lizzy (for USA tour 1979), Visage (Visage and Anvil albums), Ultravox 1979-86; albums with Ultravox: Vienna 1980, Rage in Eden 1981, Quartet 1982, Lament 1984, The Collection 1984, U Vox 1986, If I Was - The Very Best of Ultravox 1993; solo albums: The Gift 1985, Answers 1988, Pure 1991; co-writer and prodr Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? 1984 (UK's biggest selling single); composer film music: Max Headroom (C4), Turnaround (Major Film Prodns), Playboy Late Night Theme (Playboy Channel); has produced records and directed videos for various other artists; tstee Band Aid; musical dir: Prince's Tst 1986-88 and 2010, Nelson Mandela Concert 1988