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
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best
When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
The deal could never have happened in the recent crazy market. But in a collapsing market, whole new opportunities present themselves for lean and nimble operators like us.
Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.
The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
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.
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,
This, as we have always said, is only a beginning. But, what a beginning. The deal should be implemented without delay.