Everything about Ugly Rumours Band totally explained
Ugly Rumours was the name of a
rock band founded in part by the former
UK prime minister Tony Blair, while studying law at
St John's College, Oxford during the early
1970s; he sang and played
guitar. The band's name came from the cover of the
Grateful Dead's album
From the Mars Hotel.
Other members of the band were
Mark Ellen, who later went on to present
BBC TV's
Old Grey Whistle Test music show and become the founding editor of British music magazine
Q and Adam Sharples, currently Director General, Work, Welfare and Equality Group at the
Department for Work and Pensions
On
January 19 2006,
Channel 4 broadcast a
docudrama entitled
Tony Blair: Rock Star, which stated that the band's first gig was at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, during which the drum kit fell apart, and that the band played a total of six gigs before disbanding. It was also mentioned that Blair passed his audition for the band primarily because he was the only auditionee who knew all the words to the song he was asked to sing, "
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by
Mick Jagger of the
Rolling Stones, whom he imitated during his performances.
The
Stop the War Coalition released a single in February 2007 credited to Ugly Rumours, with the band fronted by a lookalike claiming to be
Tony Blair. The single, a cover version of
Edwin Starr's hit "
War", had a notable video. It reached number 6 in the UK midweek charts on 28th February, and charted at number 21 on
4 March.
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