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
This debt deal will benefit tens of millions of the poorest people on the planet,
Canada's weird, ... Canada invented 0.7. They really invented this great notion. Canada is the sole country of the G8 enjoying a surplus.
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.
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.
Africa must be allowed to trade itself out of poverty,
I understand this is a process but the process should have been accelerated and added to at the UN.
This, as we have always said, is only a beginning. But, what a beginning. The deal should be implemented without delay.
It is raining and it's cold, but it is a beautiful day.
E-mails get in the way of serious consideration of what you want to do,
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.
This is the first time we have heard this sort of language. This is very, very positive indeed.
I am not giving tacit approval. What I am trying to do is agree to help formulate a policy that I would agree with.
That we can tilt the world a little bit in favor of the poor.
But that can happen later. We can't allow this to be sidelined.