Bob Geldof
Bob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE, is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor, and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s, alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays". He co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?", one of the best-selling singles of all time, and starred in Pink Floyd's 1982...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 October 1951
CityDun Laoghaire, Ireland
CountryIreland
But that can happen later. We can't allow this to be sidelined.
If we can get the domestic heat to such a temperature, just possibly we can reach down that ladder and say, 'come on dudes, I'll give you a hand up'.
Poor old Paul. He's getting it in the neck from Bono while he's touring up in Canada and he's getting it in the teeth from me,
On late ex-wife Paula Yates and her lover Michael Hutchence: They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact they were more like Tom and Jerry.
My depressions aren't so much... depression's too heavy a word. I get very down and y'know, boredom is the key to it as I've said.
to do something unparalleled in the world, and especially at the beginning of the 21st Century, and that is to tilt the world a little bit on its axis in favor of the poor, and that's not a difficult thing to do.
with a wall of celebrities, and no message beyond a vague notion about caring for the poor and wanting politicians to 'do something'. It obliterated everything else.
Not to be immodest, but the first one was perfect in almost every sense, ... Artistically, people seemed to up the ante, and the performances were pretty great across the board. Huge amounts of money were raised, not a penny lost, and politically it elevated the issue onto the global table. The whole thing just worked, unbelievably.
It's going to have to happen now because China will be all over Africa...and they will embrace any government.
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.
It says debt, trade and aid in exchange for the Africans coming to the party with good governance. If they don't come to the party, we can't help -- we'd love to, but we can't.
It is raining and it's cold, but it is a beautiful day.
It really has quite an important effect on people,
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.