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
Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'
Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.
It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.
You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.
What's the point in having a company of secretaries?
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
Feed the world. Let them know it's Christmas time again.
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight