Ure and Osbourne show age means nothing to our music legends
We should be grateful for many of our best loved musicians continuing to perform later in life
Younger readers may greet news that Midge Ure has announced dates for a new tour by quoting one of his best-known lyrics: “This means nothing to me.”
Hopefully this will not remain the case for long, however, as the former frontman of Ultravox – perhaps most famous for their 1981 hit Vienna – is one of Scotland’s musical treasures.
The Ivor Novello winner’s career has spanned decades, performing both as a solo artist and as part of other bands including Thin Lizzy, Visage and Rich Kids.
Ure also co-wrote and produced the 1984 charity hit Do They Know It’s Christmas?, assembling the supergroup Band Aid to perform the record – the second-highest-selling single in UK chart history.
Sir Roger Daltrey – knighted last month at the age of 81 – snarled “hope I die before I get old” in The Who’s 1965 hit My Generation.
With rock legends out in force at the weekend to give Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne a fitting farewell, we can be grateful our most celebrated veteran stars tend to reject Daltrey’s youthful entreaty to simply “f-f-f-fade away”.
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