Back in the ‘80s, Midge Ure was best known for having a lot of hit records (both as part of Ultravox and as a solo artist) and working with Bob Geldof to raise a massive amount of money for Ethiopian famine relief. However, history tells us that he also had an interesting sideline in explaining new music technology products to slightly bewildered TV presenters.
The BBC Archive has previously released 1984 footage of Ure extolling the benefits of the PPG Wave – one of the new breed of digital synths that he said would replace “very basic” instruments such as the Minimoog – and now it’s plucked more footage of him from the vaults.
