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| Born | October 5, 1951 |
| Hometown | Dún Laoghaire, Republic of Ireland |
| Net worth | $150 million |
| Height | 6'2" (1.88m) |
| Spouse | Paula Yates (m 1986 - 1996) , Jeanne Marine (m 2015 - present) |
| Children | Peaches Geldof , Pixie Geldof |
| Parents | Evelyn Weller , Bob Geldof |
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Paula Yates: the untold story by the woman who knew her best
- It’s approaching 23 years since Paula Yates – bombshell television personality, rock star of rock star interviewers, fireball of flirtatious energy – died of a heroin overdose, and her best friend Belinda Brewin is determined to set the record straight on the woman whose demise was chronicled so publicly with such glee.
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Bob Geldof: Hearing Band Aid drives me 'f****** mad'
Geldof was the architect of the charity single in 1984.
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Bare bottoms, Mary Whitehouse, and the IRA: my colourful time as a BBC controller
I have never regretted taking the biggest pay cut in history. It was 1984, I was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars working in TV in Hollywood when the BBC called. “Your Aunty Needs You”, was the message. They needed me so badly, they paid me £28,500 a year to come back and revive BBC One.
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Queen at Live Aid: How Rock’s Royalty Stole The Show
Queen’s Live Aid performance has not only gone down in history as the day’s show-stopping event, but one of the greatest live concerts of all time.
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The Biggest Benefit Concerts In History
Staged for causes as disparate as famine relief, racism and AIDS awareness, the biggest benefit concerts have been unforgettable global events.
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The Charles-backed ‘super suburb’ that’s enraged locals – and Bob Geldof
Take a stroll south from the historic centre of Faversham, a medieval market town in Kent, and you will come to a footpath off a country lane.
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Bob Crawford on How Bono’s Humanitarianism Runs Deep
John Heilemann talks with Bob Crawford, bassist for The Avett Brothers and creator of Concerts of Change: The Soundtrack of Human Rights, a new audio docu-series on SiriusXM. Through conversations with artists including U2's Bono, Bob Geldof, and Joan Baez, historian Douglas Brinkley, and civil rights icon Andrew Young, Crawford explores the huge surge in humanitarian and political activism by musicians -- particularly focused on Africa -- in the seventies and eighties. Heilemann and Crawford di
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Bob Crawford Reflects on the Live Aid Legacy
John Heilemann talks with Bob Crawford, bassist for The Avett Brothers and creator of Concerts of Change: The Soundtrack of Human Rights, a new audio docu-series on SiriusXM where he explores the surge in humanitarian and political activism by musicians in the seventies and eighties. Heilemann and Crawford discuss the rise of star-studded benefit shows, culminating in the 1985 transcontinental concert, Live Aid. Crawford breaks down the enduring cultural and musical legacy of Live Aid, and why,
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Bob Crawford on the Benefit Concerts That Changed the World
John Heilemann talks with Bob Crawford, bassist for The Avett Brothers and creator of Concerts of Change: The Soundtrack of Human Rights, a new audio docu-series on SiriusXM where Crawford explores the surge in humanitarian and political activism by musicians in the seventies and eighties. Heilemann and Crawford discuss the rise of star-studded benefit shows from George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh to Live Aid; the genesis and behind-the-scenes stories of the chart-topping charity singles “
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The Dark Legacy of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’
I have as much affinity for the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” as the next Gen-Xer. I know I’m not alone in the nostalgic resonance of the echoing, opening chimes, which will forever harken back to the rush of the first view of the video, the slow-motion assembly of some of our favorite artists—Sting, … The Dark Legacy of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ Read More » The post The Dark Legacy of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ appeared first on SPIN.
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The Boomtown Rats, review: showman Geldof turns 70 in raucous style
Sir Bob Geldof was in his element at the London Palladium. Not raging about Africa, grouching about Brexit, or, indeed, indulging in any foul-mouthed political speechifying at all. But just ripping up and down a stage with the slouchily aggressive energy of an overgrown juvenile delinquent, squawking into a microphone, bashing a tambourine and belting through a set of punky, trashy, witty rockers with the revived outfit he self-mockingly (but not incorrectly) introduced as “the greatest rock and
