Midge Ure: Hit singles and world tours meant nothing until I was in my own band

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

“I’m a Walter Mitty who’s actually done it.” Growing up in a tenement on the outskirts of Glasgow, Midge Ure dreamt of being a rock star, even though it seemed impossible for a working-class kid like him. But he had something special.

At just 18, he got his first break as the guitarist for the pop band Slik and went on to be part of several influential bands in the 1970s and 80s, including Rich Kids, Thin Lizzy and Ultravox. Alongside Bob Geldof, he set up Band Aid, collaborating on the 1984 hit Do They Know It's Christmas? With a career spanning over 50 years, he has firmly established himself as a rock legend, making all his dreams come true.

Tickets for Midge Ure Catologue: The Hits Tour are available at midgeure.co.uk

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0:00.0	Look at him go.
0:01.5	He's a quality striker.
0:02.8	No, not him.
0:03.7	The electrician fixing those lights.
0:05.5	Wow.
0:06.2	Is he?
0:06.9	Yes, he uses QuickBooks to prepare for self-assessment.
0:10.3	This is truly game-changing.
0:12.9	Use QuickBooks year-round to ensure your income tax return is shock-free.
0:17.0	That's how you business differently.
0:18.9	Into its QuickBooks.
0:22.1	This is a Global player original podcast.
0:32.9	Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived chiefly to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with interesting people.
0:40.6	And I don't want to embarrass any previous guests on the program, but I've really been looking forward to this one, even more than I look forward to all of the others.
0:47.9	Midgior, welcome.
0:49.0	Thank you very much.
0:50.6	It's hard to know where to start.
0:52.1	I presume you've been on a rock family tree. Have you one of those
0:55.0	pictures where they do all the lines and the links between? Because I thought I knew the bones of
1:00.0	your career, but I mean, good Lord, above, there's a lot there, isn't there? There's a lot of lines,
1:05.0	a lot of connections. It goes back a long way, though. That's possibly why. I think when they
1:10.4	did the rock family tree, they ended up using an extra couple of pages.
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