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
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It appears from the Live 8 experience they can do something about it, because they obviously stopped Live 8 tickets being sold. As JK Rowling's representatives, we would very much appreciate it if they took steps to prevent the activities she has referred to.
We've got to go up to the room now.
I will be extremely active in trying to get these people thrown out of office.
I don't care who I have to get to, to make this agenda work. They must know that I am in no one's pocket, that I am not beholden to anyone.
But that can happen later. We can't allow this to be sidelined.
Today is the perfect moment to talk ahead of the WTO negotiations, ... The EU must break the deadlock and as of today it has failed to do so.
From the very get-go, everyone was aware of this: what's the point of signing up if no one's going to do it?
Poor old Paul. He's getting it in the neck from Bono while he's touring up in Canada and he's getting it in the teeth from me,
Paul, join the club, dude. It's not that hard.
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,
That we can tilt the world a little bit in favor of the poor.
Irish Americans are about as Irish as Black Americans are African.
Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.