This much I know: Midge Ure, musician

Band Aid came about because I bumped into Paula Yates in a dressing room. That led to me writing ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ with Bob Geldof.

When you start out, you invent stories to tell. As you get older, it’s your own story you’re telling.

Creating music is simply part of my life now. I squirrel away ideas as they come to me whenever I’m on the move, which is a lot. I simply speak the ideas into an app on my phone. When I get home, I spend eight-hour days working them up in my recording studio.