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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. Irish singer-songwriter and political activist (born 1951) Bob Geldof KBE Geldof in 2009 Born Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof (1951-10-05) 5 October 1951 (age 73) Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland Occupations Singer-songwriter political activist Years active 1975–present Spouses ...
Bob Geldof maintains his simple message: 'Feed the world' A few months after Band Aid burst to the top of the U.K. singles chart – where it remained for five weeks ...
Geldof also said that in today’s “fractious” world, “people have lost any ability to control events,” but when it comes to Band Aid’s work, “you have agency.”
On Tuesday, Nov. 26 during an appearance on CNN This Morning, the Band Aid founder, 73, told anchor Kasie Hunt that he still stands by Band Aid's anniversary release of the song, despite ...
Bob Geldof, Gary Roberts, Pete Briquette, and Simon Crowe reunited as The Boomtown Rats in 2013, joined by Alan Dunn (longtime member of Geldof's band) on keyboards and Darren Beale (who played with Roberts & Crowe in The Rats) on guitar. Bob Geldof said, "Playing again with the Rats and doing those great songs again will be exciting afresh.
Bob [Geldof] has since also put a call into Ed to speak directly.” Geldof told The Sunday Times that the Band Aid Charitable Trust has raised £140 million (or $176 million) over the years, and ...
[9] Responding to criticism in 2024, Geldof said "this little pop song has kept hundreds of thousands if not millions of people alive". He said the alleged "colonial tropes" of the lyrics were in fact "empirical facts", and that hunger remains endemic in Ethiopia, water is scarce, rain is increasingly unreliable due to climate change, and that ...
Geldof told presenter Zoe Ball: “It is the history, it is the arc of British rock and roll of over 40 years on one three-and-a-half minute track, and David Bowie introduces it and then wishes us ...