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
I had this big fight with Madame X, Mrs. Thatcher, 20 years ago, and now the government understands politically it's not worth it to go up against it.
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
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.
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,
Essentially the change came, and correctly and properly so, when women finally achieved their biological and financial independence concomitantly.
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.
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.
There's no use in the prime minister coming to Scotland unless he's prepared to do this deal. Unless he's prepared he should stay home. Don't come. You're not welcome unless you're prepared to do something finally.
I understand this is a process but the process should have been accelerated and added to at the UN.
It was to do with politics, not just fundraising and utilizing those things through to its logical end, to the ultimate seat of power. ... I think that probably started with George.
This debt deal will benefit tens of millions of the poorest people on the planet,