They're all great stories. All of the people who did that stuff aren't here today. Most of the people I knew who tried to live the rock and roll lifestyle took it too far.
And though he was right at the heart of the scene when pop and rock stars were untameable demi-gods, today, Midge is a year-old family man who mostly works from home. His life, at the centre of a loving family with three teenage daughters in the house, Flossie, Ruby and Kitty his eldest Molly is in her 20s and has left home , is happy, but relatively quiet. He still does big tours as a solo artist and is writing and producing an album all alone in an exercise he describes cheerfully as creative "megalomania" but mostly he takes great satisfaction in a balanced life that allows him to "be in Berlin playing to 20, people, and then a few days later pushing a shopping trolley around a supermarket with your kids, and hearing your song on the radio".
Sure, the days of extravagant riders and hordes of willing groupies are gone. But despite the fact that he once had access to all the excess bestowed on stars in the music industry hey day, and his own self-confessed alcoholism, there was always a kind of restraint, or innocence about Ure.
His first wife was the supermodel Annabel Giles, but even she remembers their years together as homey and sedate. In his autobiography, published a few years ago, Ure reveals an almost sniffy moralism about the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll bit. And he never touched drugs. When he toured America with Thin Lizzy, the others would be getting stuck in but "I was scared of it. Phil [Lynott] was great because — touring America with him — the kids would come up and they'd have everything with them, these fans.
And Phil, he'd be latching on to them. As soon as they went near me, he was like a big brother, kind of put them to one side and said 'No no no no no, he's fine, leave him alone'. So he looked after me". Last week, Midge took Sheridan, his wife of 23 years out to dinner for Valentine's day and they started looking back on how they met and got together.
To me, it's not a long time ago. To me, everything is quite recent. But if you'd said to me then, we'd be out having Valentine's dinner 23 years down the line, 23 years was miles away.
You couldn't imagine what it was like. Back in he did This Is Your Life, which piqued the interest of some book publishers, and in he published his autobiography.
Get ahead of the day with the morning headlines at 7. Enter email address This field is required Sign Up. He admits that the experience was "horrendous" partly because of the process of writing about all of the amazing things he had done and realising he "won't do them again". He played with some of the biggest bands of his generation, and was the co-producer of the original Live Aid in , where Bob Geldof upstaged him.
He seems to regard Geldof as a kind of frenemy, and recounts, with grudging respect in his book, watching Geldof approach the task like "a Tasmanian Devil hack ing it's way through a jungle".
He turned 60 last year but looks at least a decade younger. Still, he admits that the idea of it bothers him. But Midge seems to have accepted the trade-off of relative obscurity in order to be allowed to move on, and to evolve. Ure was born Jimmy Ure in a Glasgow slum tenement. My mother had a handful of jobs but was the kind of matriarchal mother keeping the boys in line.
Despite the poverty, he speaks of it fondly. It didn't make any difference to us. Space-X continues to reach for the stars. See the Elon Musk family tree here at FameChain. Click here to Start FameChaining Explore how the celebrity world connects.
Unknown Grandfather. Unknown Grandmother. Jimmy Ure Birth Father. Bet Ure Birth Mother. Unknown Birth Father. Unknown Birth Mother. Lead Singer of Ultravox. Other Partners Divorced 1 child together married circa divorce Annabel Giles.
Sister Linda Ure. Brother Bobby Ure. Other Partners Professional Partners. Sheridan Forbes Age 52 approx. Born Children Together Kitty Ure born , age 24 approx. Ruby Ure born , age 21 approx. Midge Ure had at least 2 relationship in the past. Is Midge Ure having any relationship affair? This information is not available. Midge Ure was born on a Saturday, October 10, in Scotland. His birth name is James Ure and he is currently 68 years old.
People born on October 10 fall under the zodiac sign of Libra. His zodiac animal is Serpent. His stage name, Midge, is a phonetic reversal of Jim, the diminutive form of his given name. Continue to the next page to see Midge Ure net worth, popularity trend, new videos and more.
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