A Christmas Card Still Arrives Here Each Year for Midge Ure From Phil ; the Former Ultravox Star's Chiswick Hideaway has Been Remixed Into A

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With its classic, white stuccoed Georgian facade and sedate, leafy Chiswick riverside location, you would not expect Zachary House to be intimately linked with one of pop's finest hours.

But in the Eighties, the house was owned by Ultravox star Midge Ure, who had his own recording studio in the garden. And in late 1984, Ure co-wrote the hit Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas? with Bob Geldof. While the main recording of one of the biggest-selling singles of all time took place in a West End studio, Ure is thought to have prerecorded backing tracks in his home studio.

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A Christmas Card Still Arrives Here Each Year for Midge Ure From Phil ; the Former Ultravox Star's Chiswick Hideaway has Been Remixed Into A

Current owners Alan Smith and Bev Sage have also made their names in the music business and Alan says that 'friends closely associated with that era tell us that several Band Aid stars came to the house to prerecord vocals'.

And Alan should know. He was a fledgling reporter on the New Musical Express (NME) paper in 1962, and brought the first news of The Beatles to the ...

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