Items from Ultravox's Live Aid performance nearly 40 years ago are to go under the hammer. Bass player Chris Cross's guitar from the Wembley concert, his Live Aid security pass, ticket stub and official Live Aid T-shirt will all be sold next month.
Included in the sale are Cross's platinum disc for the Band Aid single, Do They Know Its Christmas? and the Ibanez Blazer bass guitar he used on many Ultravox albums and performances.
Also being sold are the 1980s Oxford synthesiser used on the hit 1984 single Love's Great Adventure and an EMS Synthi AKS synthesiser used for the bass parts on Ultravox's ground-breaking first album, Ultravox!
A Yamaha SG2000 electric guitar used by former Ultravox singer, Midge Ure, co-organiser of Band Aid and Live Aid alongside Bob Geldof, is also being auctioned.
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