News about Midge Ure

Chris Cross, an Ultravox player who performed on the bass and co-wrote a classic Vienna hit, has died.

According to overnight surveys, Sir Lenny Henry's last time co-hosting Comic Relief's star-studded Red Nose Day show was watched by an average of 3.6 million viewers. Compared to last year's average of 2.9 million, the annual fundraising program, which featured a slew of comedy sketches, musical performances, and tributes to Sir Lenny saw a significant increase in viewers. According to the BBC, it attracted 4.3 million viewers, up from last year's 3.4 million.

Who brings slippers and a hot water bottle on a month-long singles' retreat to Naxos, Greece? Despite the best efforts of television producers, someone who suspects that will not be able to find a new boyfriend to curl up with. Annabel Giles, a model, television host, and actress who died at the age of 64, was energetic, gifted, funny, and on the verge of a long-awaited return when she died of glioblastoma, the brain cancer that claimed her life last week. Giles was the last woman who would need a television dating service, according to this case, an ITV show in which a group of high-profile divorcees descended on Greece to try to find love.

Annabel, a native of Pontypool, Wales, began modeling in her 20s after being discovered while working as a secretary at an advertising company. She was picked up by renowned modelling firm Model 1 and quickly became the first British model to be hired to a make-up shop, Max Factor. She first reported that she owned 17 cars, including three Porsches, an Aston Martin, and a Morris Minor, all before she had even passed her driving exam. The actress was modest about her work and told how she made a fortune by "turning up and sitting still," while make-up artists and hairdressers turned her into something "impossibly gorgeous."

Bob Geldof's first reaction to learning that what would become the festive hit on a toy keyboard was less than enthusiastic, according to Midge Ure. The Boomtown Rats frontman, who is now 71, told Ure that it sounded like the theme tune to the 1960s British police television drama Z-Cars. Ure, 69, said the pair then went to work on the track that has raised more than £200 million to help combat famine in Africa since its inception in 1984.

During Sunday's episode of the Antique Roadshow, an antiques Roadshow visitor was stunned by the value of a poster he recovered from the bin at the 1985 Live Aid concert. A man brought a piece of memorabilia from his time working at the fundraising event, instalment of the BBC series at Newby Hall in Skelton-on-Ure, North Yorkshire. The large plastic poster featured a white guitar with the instrument's main body representing Africa's continent.

With their version of Do They Know It's Christmas, which they dubbed Food Aid, LadBaby clinched their fifth Christmas No. 1 in December. Bob Geldoff, 71, who co-wrote the hit song with Midge Ure in 1984, explains why he allowed YouTubers to use the song on Wednesday. When he slammed the cost of living crisis, the rocker revealed that he approved the scheme in order to assist 'people that are disgracefully going cold and hungry.'