Bob Geldof
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Pink Floyd and Bob Geldof: Pink Isn't Well
Report and Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Creem, December 1982
AS A PINK Floyd fanatic, my biggest fear has always been that on some apocalyptic night as I sat with the rest of the Pinkoid ...
The Rat And The Band Aid "Saint"
Report and Interview by Mick Brown, The Sunday Times, 23 December 1984
BOB GELDOF has been transformed from fading Boomtown Rat to charity superstar behind Christmass biggest pop hit, helping Ethiopian famine victims. Mick Brown reports. ...
USA for Africa: Record could raise millions for hungry
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 14 March 1985
"CHECK YOUR ego at the door." That was the message producer Quincy Jones sent to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross ...
Life After Live Aid? Keeping Pop's Conscience In Focus
Comment by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 20 July 1985
Can Live Aid really be more than a cosmetic exercise, a massive sop to the conscience of the West, or at best a temporary solution ...
Live Aid: Transmission Of Mercy
Comment by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 20 July 1985
JUST ABOUT the time that the 70,000 in the centre of the mediarena were filing, as instructed, towards the exits, I was emerging from the ...
Live Aid take may hit $60 million
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 29 August 1985
As many as 2 billion people watched the event ...
Bob Geldof: Deep In The Heart Of Nowhere
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 29 November 1986
WELL, SAINT Bob, here we are again. Doubtless you're expecting a right royal slagging in these pages, but that's not what I want to do. ...
Bob Geldof: The Vegetarians Of Love
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, August 1990
WHAT A SUPERB surprise – Geldof in brilliant comeback shock! ...
Bob Geldof Shifts Gears, Returns To Irish Roots
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 3 September 1990
HE'S BEST KNOWN AS the driving force behind 1985's Live Aid project, and he still serves on the foundation's board of trustees. ...
Various Artists: The Freddie Mercury Tribute, Concert For Aids Awareness, Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 2 May 1992
IT'S, UH, KINDA TRAGIC ...
Paula Yates: She's Daft — But Not Wicked
Comment by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 29 September 1996
THE QUESTION begs: Is Paula Yates still wearing her 'Little Miss Trouble' T-shirt — or is it wearing her? It has been a tough week ...
Whatever Happened to Saint Bob?
Profile by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 30 November 1997
He fed the world. Now the world is feeding on him... ...
Report by Adrian Deevoy, Q, May 1999
In summer 1998, and to a chorus of indie-kid disapproval, Capital Radio took over London station XFM and, preposterously, put Bob Geldof in the drive-time ...
Live Aid: The View From The Pitch
Memoir by Pete Paphides, The Observer, 17 October 2004
Nothing was going to stop a schoolboy fan of the Boomtown Rats making it to Wembley on that fateful day. Peter Paphides recalls every high ...
Retrospective by Mark Ellen, The Word, November 2004
We know how Live Aid looked from the outside. But for presenters like Mark Ellen it was a very different story ...
Live8: Less global jukebox, more local radio
Live Review by Kathryn Flett, The Observer, 3 July 2005
AS THE LIVE8 afternoon shift got under way, it was soon clear that, although the BBC must have been rubbing their hands at the prospect ...
Profile and Interview by Robert Sandall, GQ, October 2005
ON THE DAY that GQ meets up with Bob Geldof, the man looks as though he's just finished fighting off a gang of ineffectual stylists. ...
A World Of Dreaded Fear: Band Aid's Unforgivable Crimes
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 10 December 2013
Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it. But, one year ahead of its ...
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 31 August 2014
He's 'OK, wedge-wise'. But this summer the bolshiest man in pop was back on the road with the cash-strapped Boomtown Rats. Event was with him ...
see also Boomtown Rats
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