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
Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays...
Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
Rock & roll is instant coffee.
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.
We need the Dutch and the Belgians to come along with us at the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and try and push through the great package of change on debt relief,
Canada's weird, ... Canada invented 0.7. They really invented this great notion. Canada is the sole country of the G8 enjoying a surplus.
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.