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Ugly Rumours was the name of a rock band founded in part by the current 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 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. Stop the War, the coalition that organised the march of close to two million people in London just before the war has brought together a band including a front man supposed to be Tony Blair and is releasing a download only single for 1st week of January 2007 to try to get a chart topper with Edwin Starr's classic song War Tony Blair wants his legacy to be that he was the highest charting British Prime Minister of all time, please help him fulfill his dream and vote for him by texting "PEACE1" to 78789. (all texts cost £1.50 plus normal network charges/Only available to UK customers)

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