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
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It's going to have to happen now because China will be all over Africa...and they will embrace any government.
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 went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.
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.
Don't let them tell us it doesn't work,
E-mails get in the way of serious consideration of what you want to do,
We live in a broken world which has never been healthier, wealthier or bizarrely, free of conflict, but some 500 kilometers south of here they die of want, ... It's not only intellectually absurd, but also morally repulsive.
You have to really pick and be careful about what is going to get you the biggest mass audience where you could talk about the conditions of the poor people in Africa. That's what we're doing. If you can suggest to me British blacks acts that should be one, that sell in the same quantities as the bands we've got, fine.
Essentially the change came, and correctly and properly so, when women finally achieved their biological and financial independence concomitantly.
This is the first time we have heard this sort of language. This is very, very positive indeed.
This debt deal will benefit tens of millions of the poorest people on the planet,
It is raining and it's cold, but it is a beautiful day.
It really has quite an important effect on people,
This is the most important tour in Ireland since the Rats because I've built up a body of songs, since we split, as a solo artist.