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 have the records, photos, videos and all that stuff for her.
I am not giving tacit approval. What I am trying to do is agree to help formulate a policy that I would agree with.
I can see you're going to be trouble, Claire.
If I can make things a little hotter for the government, if the Tories can push harder on the government and if there is more of a debate on this then good.
It is raining and it's cold, but it is a beautiful day.
It really has quite an important effect on people,
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's going to have to happen now because China will be all over Africa...and they will embrace any government.
It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.
The truth is I do have 14 sheep, down in Kent in my house there, and I'll actually ship them over now to Stephen's Green and you can all bugger off. That's where they are going to live,
The truth is, I do have 14 sheep, down in Kent in my house there, and I'll actually ship them over now to Stephen's Green and you can all bugger off. That's where they are going to live.
You will never see it again. You will never see this happen again. It will be the greatest concert ever,
I will be extremely active in trying to get these people thrown out of office.
It says debt, trade and aid in exchange for the Africans coming to the party with good governance. If they don't come to the party, we can't help -- we'd love to, but we can't.