Ure claims he was scouted for his look by Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and his punk co-conspirator (and later, the Clash ...

The original Band Aid single saw artists join forces in 1984, led by Boomtown Rats frontman Geldof and Ultravox’s Midge Ure to help charities working with starving children in Ethiopia.

Spearheaded by Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats and singer-songwriter-producer Midge Ure who were ... in Ethiopia. Live Aid started as Band Aid, where Geldof and Ure decided the best way they ...

It was described as 'The Day Rock and Roll Changed the World' but how did that unforgettable day on 13 July 1985 come about. Band Aid... It all started when Bob Geldof, who had seen Michael Buerk ...

Bob Geldof, for the Band Aid Trust, says: “It is extraordinary that 40 years after Midge and I knocked off, as quickly as we could, what we thought was an ok-ish little Christmas song, a whole series ...