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  LadBaby bids for fifth consecutive Christmas number one with Band Aid cover

  LadBaby are reworking the iconic Band Aid song Do They Know It's Christmas in a bid to claim their fifth consecutive Christmas number one. It is the first time the charity hit - written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 - will have been allowed into the hands of other artists. Grammy winning singer-songwriter Amy Wadge - a frequent writing partner to Ed Sheeran - has rewritten the song, with a humorous twist.

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  LadBaby rework Band Aid song with Martin Lewis for Christmas number one attempt

  LadBaby are the first act to be allowed to rework the Band Aid song, getting permission from Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and the Band Aid Trust.

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  Visage outside Blitz nightclub … Sheila Rock’s best photograph

  ‘Blitz was where all the New Romantics hung out. If you didn’t look good, you didn’t get in. Steve Strange is at the front of the shot – with big hair’

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  Following in the footsteps of Beethoven, Mozart and Midge Ure in the City of Music

  VITAL preparation on any short city break for me is compiling a playlist – especially when visiting Vienna, dubbed the City of Music.

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  Martin Kemp and the Human League among top 80s acts as lineup for Henley's Rewind Festival 2022 revealed

  Frankie Goes to Hollywood star Holly Johnson, the Human League and Spandau Ballet’s Martin Kemp are among the huge 80s stars set to appear at a Henley music festival this summer.

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  Line Of Duty star teams up with Live Aid founder to raise cash for students

  Martin Compston and Midge Ure are taking part in an online talk in aid of Glasgow Caledonian University students.

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  ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’: Spotify’s song trivia feature calls out Bob Geldof’s festive hit

  Spotify’s song trivia feature has called out the controversial Band Aid track “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” for worsening the famine in Ethiopia.The 1984 charity single, written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, and featuring artists such as Bono, George Michael and Sting, has been widely criticised for its “patronising” lyrics and for reinforcing damaging stereotypes about Africa.

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  Rewind Festival lineup and tickets 2019: Bryan Ferry, Gloria Gaynor and Michael Bolton to headline

  Bryan Ferry, Gloria Gaynor and Michael Bolton have been announced as headliners of Rewind Festival 2019.

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  Best TV: Face the music, on a bus through Britain or in a convertible in the US

  Many years ago, a former pop star who was trying to launch a career in other media told me of an idea he had for a TV programme. In Smashing Hits!, Midge Ure and Kim Appleby — he of Ultravox, she of Mel and Kim — are time travelling around Britain and Ireland. Midge and Kim’s car chat is fine (“I loved that they sang in their traditional accents,” says Kim of The Proclaimers, before Midge delivers a verse of his gloomy anthem Vienna in the style of Andy Stewart).

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  Midge Ure confirms that there will NEVER be another version of Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'

  Out of respect for late founding members George Michael and Rick Parfitt.

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