you want a property of note – a musical note, that is – Zachary House, in the west London suburb of Chiswick, takes some beating. It features in A Hard Day’s Night, the 1964 Beatles film, with scenes shot at Strand on the Green, the property’s address next to the River Thames.
Then, almost two decades later, the house was bought by Midge Ure, pony-tailed frontman of Eighties new wave band Ultravox. In the lounge, Midge and his friend, Bob Geldof, co-wrote Do They Know It’s Christmas (Feed the World).
Downstairs in the recording studio, the pair created the backing track used as the base for lyrics later sung by more than 30 stars in the Band Aid charity supergroup – including George Michael, David Bowie, U2 and Phil Collins – who took the song to Number One for five weeks over Christmas 1984.
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