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'''Midge Ure''' is a [[RenaissanceMan singer, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, and songwriter]] from Cambaslang, UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}. He is almost single-handedly responsible for shaping the [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]/NewRomantic genres, after he succeeded Music/JohnFoxx in Music/{{Ultravox}}. His StageName is a phonetic reversal of his real name '''Jim'''. He was highly successful as the front-man of Ultravox from 1980 to 1986.

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'''Midge Ure''' is a [[RenaissanceMan singer, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, and songwriter]] from Cambaslang, UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}. He is almost single-handedly responsible for shaping reshaping NewWaveMusic in TheEighties and forming the [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]/NewRomantic genres, NewRomantic genre, after he succeeded Music/JohnFoxx in Music/{{Ultravox}}. His StageName is a phonetic reversal of his real name '''Jim'''. He was highly successful as the front-man of Ultravox from 1980 to 1986.



* LargeHam: Whenever's he's at the microphone, he hams it up like ''nobody's business''. "DANCIIIING!! WITH TEARS IN MYYY EYES!!!!"

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* LargeHam: Whenever's Wherever he's at the microphone, he hams it up like ''nobody's business''. "DANCIIIING!! WITH TEARS IN MYYY EYES!!!!"



* TropeCodifier: Of New Wave & New Romantic music, ''big time''. Without Ure's work we would have no Music/AFlockOfSeagulls, no early Music/TalkTalk, no Music/FictionFactory - or at least they would be drastically different.

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* TropeCodifier: Of New Wave & New Romantic music, ''big time''. Without Ure's work we would have no Music/AFlockOfSeagulls, no early Music/TalkTalk, no Music/FictionFactory - -- or at least they would be drastically different.
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'''Midge Ure''' is a [[RenaissanceMan singer, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, and songwriter]] from Cambaslang, UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}. He is almost single-handedly responsible for shaping the [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]/NewRomantic genres, after he succeeded Music/JohnFoxx in Music/{{Ultravox}}. His StageName is a phonetic reversal of his real name '''James'''. He was highly successful as the front-man of Ultravox from 1980 to 1986.

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'''Midge Ure''' is a [[RenaissanceMan singer, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, and songwriter]] from Cambaslang, UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}. He is almost single-handedly responsible for shaping the [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]/NewRomantic genres, after he succeeded Music/JohnFoxx in Music/{{Ultravox}}. His StageName is a phonetic reversal of his real name '''James'''.'''Jim'''. He was highly successful as the front-man of Ultravox from 1980 to 1986.
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-->On writing the charity song "Band Aid" about the Ethiopian famine.

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-->On writing the charity song "Band Aid" "Do They Know It's Christmas?" about the Ethiopian famine.

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->''"It was a song written for a specific purpose: to touch people’s heartstrings and to loosen the purse strings, [The lyrics] had to be brutal. We were looking at television pictures of children spending five minutes trying to stand up."''
-->On writing the charity song "Band Aid" about the Ethiopian famine.

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