Memorabilia from Ultravox’s Live Aid performance to be auctioned

Items from Ultravox’s Live Aid show astir 40 years agone are to spell nether the hammer.

Bass subordinate Chris Cross’s guitar from the Wembley concert, his Live Aid information pass, summons stub and authoritative Live Aid T-shirt volition each beryllium sold adjacent month.

Included successful the merchantability are Cross’s platinum disc for the Band Aid single, Do They Know Its Christmas? and the Ibanez Blazer bass guitar helium utilized connected galore Ultravox albums and performances.

Also being sold are the 1980s Oxford synthesiser utilized connected the deed 1984 azygous Love’s Great Adventure and an EMS Synthi AKS synthesiser utilized for the bass parts connected Ultravox’s ground-breaking archetypal album, Ultravox!

A Yamaha SG2000 electrical guitar utilized by erstwhile Ultravox singer, Midge Ure, co-organiser of Band Aid and Live Aid alongside Bob Geldof, is besides being auctioned.

The items are being sold pursuing the decease successful March of Cross and the auction volition instrumentality spot astatine Gardiner Houlgate auctioneers successful Corsham, Wiltshire, connected December 3.

Cross was 1 of the co-writers of Ultravox’s biggest hit, the 1981 azygous Vienna, which reached fig 2 successful the UK illustration and fig 1 successful Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands.

In summation to much than 30 guitars and a scope of synthesisers, the Chris Cross postulation includes Ultravox golden discs from astir the world, promotional items for the band, circuit merchandise, uncommon vinyl and equipment.

Cross was a subordinate of Ultravox from the band’s enactment successful the mid-1970s until its divided successful 1987. He retired from the euphony manufacture to go a psychotherapist.

Chris’s postulation connects to immoderate of the astir iconic moments of the 1980s. Not conscionable Band Aid and Live Aid, but besides cardinal points successful Ultravox’s vocation arsenic they transitioned from synth pioneers to popular stardom

Luke Hobbs, auctioneer

Speaking from his location successful Portugal, Midge Ure said: “Chris was the glue that held Ultravox together.

“There was a crushed wherefore helium counselled troubled kids aft we split. Ultravox was a large grooming crushed for a vocation successful therapy.”

The 1982 Squier bass played by Cross astatine the Live Aid performance is expected to fetch successful excess of £4,000.

Auctioneer Luke Hobbs said: “Chris’s postulation connects to immoderate of the astir iconic moments of the 1980s.

“Not conscionable Band Aid and Live Aid, but besides cardinal points successful Ultravox’s vocation arsenic they transitioned from synth pioneers to popular stardom.

“We’re expecting involvement from astir the world. Many radical who grew up successful the 1980s are collecting this benignant of memorabilia.

“For musicians, Chris’s postulation of astir 400 items is simply a existent treasure trove.”