No Regrets – Midge Ure (1982)

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Additional information about this, Midge Ure vinyl art.

Midge Ure – The Artist

James “Midge” Ure OBE (born 1953) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and record producer. His stage name, Midge, is a phonetic reversal of Jim. Ure enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, Rich Kids, Visage, and as the second bandleader of Ultravox after John Foxx had left, carrying the band into high chart positions for the six following years before disbanding it. In 1984, he co-wrote and produced the charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” for the supergroup Band Aid, which he organized with Bob Geldof. He acts as a trustee for the charity. The single sold 3.7 million copies in the UK at first release, has become a staple of Christmas songs compilations ever since, and is the second-highest-selling single in UK chart history.[1][2] He also organized the events Live Aid and Live 8 with Geldof, and serves as an ambassador for Save the Children. Ure is the producer and writer of several other synth-pop and new wave hit singles of the 1980s, including “Fade to Grey” (1980) by Visage and the Ultravox signature songs “Vienna” (1980), “Hymn” (1983) and “Dancing with Tears in My Eyes” (1984).[3] He achieved his first UK top 10 solo hit in 1982 with “No Regrets”. In 1985, his solo debut studio album The Gift reached number two in the UK Albums Chart and yielded the UK singles chart number-one single “If I Was”. He also co-wrote Phil Lynott’s “Yellow Pearl”, which served as the theme of Top of the Pops for much of the 1980s.

No Regrets – The Song

‘No Regrets‘ is a song by folk and blues singer/songwriter Tom Rush. It is the final song on his 1968 album The Circle Game and was released as a single in the UK in January 1968. His 1968 composition has become an acknowledged standard, with numerous cover versions having been recorded, most notably by The Walker Brothers. In addition to his 1968 sparse acoustic recording of the song, Rush later recorded a more lush, orchestrated pop version for Columbia Records featuring Carly Simon on background vocals and a screaming electric guitar solo for his 1974 album Ladies Love Outlaws. This is a 1982 cover version by, Scottish musician Midge Ure. He released it as a cover of the song as his debut solo single. “No Regrets” was also produced by Ure, who was “tired of doing it for others, so I decided to do it for myself” and was co-produced and engineered by John Hudson.

The Egret – The Shape

This record has been modelled into an Egret.  Egrets are herons, generally long-legged wading birds, that have white or buff plumage, developing fine plumes (usually milky white) during the breeding season. Egrets are not a biologically distinct group from herons and have the same build.

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