# The Midge Ure interview: on disbanding Ultravox, joining Thin Lizzy, passing on the Sex Pistols … oh, and Live Aid

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Podcast: [Your Brother Should Know](https://stenobird.com/podcast/your-brother-should-know-6727528)
Published: 2025-07-03T06:35:00+00:00
Episode link: https://Yourbrothershouldknow.podbean.com/e/the-midge-ure-interview-on-disbanding-ultravox-joining-thin-lizzy-passing-on-the-sex-pistols-%e2%80%a6-oh-and-band-aid/
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## Resource

In a Your Brother Should Know first, we publish an interview from Rob’s limited library of encounters with music’s great, good and mediocre. In the first category, we can safely file Midge Ure: guitarist, singer, songwriter, Live Aid founder, member of Thin Lizzy, Visage, and much more in between. Find out from the man himself what it's like to be simultaneously Brilliant (Ultravox, 2012) and Fragile (solo album 2014), where he stands on Scottish independence, and why he turned down the chance to be a Sex Pistol. If you’re really interested, then wind back to Rob and Dave’s companion episode on the classic Ultravox album Vienna, and find out just how much they got wrong about Midge’s life.

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