Pop legend Midge Ure keeps being mistaken for fellow baldy Sir Patrick Stewart.
The 69-year-old Ultravox singer said people confuse him with the actor best known as Star Trek’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
Midge – who hit the big time with 1981 hit Vienna and organised Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 with Sir Bob Geldof – said he tries to be “anonymous”.
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But he revealed: “People mistake me for Patrick Stewart these days.
“Today I generally turn right when I’m getting on a plane, but in my Ultravox days I often turned left.
“Usually I just put on my headphones… the last thing you want is for someone to recognise you and tell you their life story.”
As well as losing his hair, Midge no longer has his trademark moustache and suffers from the hearing condition tinnitus after years of gigging.
Sir Patrick, 82, who also played Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men movies, has been bald since he was 20 years old.
Meanwhile, Midge recently revealed that he almost didn’t let LadBaby use his Band Aid song a rewritten version of Do They Know It’s Christmas? for his Christmas single.
The singer thought that using the charity single to try and get the number one spot “was in poor taste”.
He said: “I was reticent about it. They were singing about sausage rolls and it was originally written about people dying of famine.
“It was quite rightly pointed out to me that it doesn’t really matter. People can interpret the song however they want and LadBaby generates a massive amount of money for charities.
“Our job, and it was put fairly bluntly and succinctly by the rest of the trustees, is to generate as much money as we can from Live Aid footage, Live Aid itself and the Band Aid record.”
He added: “And who are we to turn down LadBaby, who have been at No1 for the last five years at Christmas?
“Whether you like the interpretation or not, it’s not about personal taste.”
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