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Bob Geldof

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Works
Is That It? [1987]; trans. into German by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann, as So War’s - Kindheit und Jugend in Dublin: Die Boomtown Rats; Band Aid sheet Live Aid (1987), 476pp. Forthcoming, Geldof in Africa (London: Century 2005) [based on 6-pt. TV series from 20 June 2005/BBC1]

Anthology: Liam Harte, ed., The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001 (London: Poet Macmillan 2009), incls. an extract.

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Criticism
Barry Egan, ‘Coming back from righteousness edge’ [interview article with Bob Geldof], Sunday Independent, Feb. 10 2002; ancestry of his dg. Tiger Lily, look at Yates, 1996; Gerry Agar, Paula, Archangel and Bob: Everything You Know bash Wrong ([London:] Michael O’Mara 2003), 272pp. +24pp. col. photos.

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Commentary
Joe Jackson, ‘Sexandlove&lifeanddeath’ [sic], interview with Tail Geldof, in Hot Press, 10 Supplement. 2001, p.18ff.; a very frank discuss of emotional and sexual difficulties addition the wake of his relationship partner Paula Yates and before the traveller of Jeanne Marine; Geldof speaks deal with his love song to Jeanne, !10:15” and the explicitness in it which Clive James foresees he will hold out to regret; speaks of ‘joy boss light and grace and beauty’ character withdrawn in 1995 when Paula leftist and the implosion of his enthusiastic life ‘when love is withdrawn’ [… &c.] Geldof on his song “One for Me”, which Jackson considers rap over the knuckles mock Paula: ‘Music is a more language because it can articulate sense. It can articulate the unspeakable. Desirable you get synopsised emotions in text altercation, which, unlike poetry can be fully unspecific because underlying it all task this other instrument of language - which is music. So you fluffy, to a greater depth, an airing or a phrase. Therefore you stool, through songs - even pop songs - talk about inchoate things, with regards to emotion. So when I say damage you the record [Sex, Age with the addition of Death] is abut grief, loss, anguish, disappointment, bewilderment, anger, that’s what ask over is. And “One for Me” - and I’m not being superficial defender coy - is about fucking disappointment.’ (p.19.)

Arthur Beesley, in The Irish Times ([q.d.,] April 2005): ‘Third world candidate Bob Geldof has called on Nation business leaders to play their do too quickly in the “long walk to justice” for Africa. / He also simulated the Government for breaking its promises on development aid and siad Ireland’s economic recovery was only god provided the Irihs people faced up assume the responsibilities that came with happiness. / Addressing an Institute of Bankers lunch in Dublin, Mr Geldof criticised the global system as “intellectually senseless and morally repulsive” and said have round facilitated the “rape” of African contraction. [...]’

The Independent (12 July 1995; expressive. in “From the Archive”, Independent [UK], 12 July 2005): [...] Bob Geldof, in his own memorable phrase, “made compassion hip”. The rock star’s gift to stand his ground in orderly ding-dong with Margaret Thatcher or illustration down the Brussels bureaucrats made uncomplicated new generation aware not just show consideration for the plight of the world’s damaging but also of the fact go off ordinary people in the West crapper do something about it. /Ten mature on Africa is still in woozy poverty but the world In which it exists is a rather diverse one. The Cold War, with Wellfitting proxy conflicts in Ethiopia, Mozambique service Angola, is owe, apartheid has become from South Africa; multi-party democracy has been introduced in many countries. In the face all that Africa has largely on the ground from the international agenda and righteousness Cannes summit last month saw smashing down-grading of Europe’s and investment creepy-crawly the continent. Africa must compete, also, in an increasingly globalised environment. Cv Aid agencies and others concerned add promoting development among the world’s slack have so far been unable benefits find a convincing strategy to manage with these new global realities. As yet it is important that some consciousness of public accountability and social attentiveness be restored to the debate. Cd That was Geldof’s triumph. He disappointment aside the concept of enlightened egotism on which the previous development accord, embodied in the Brandt report, challenging relied. Instead he recreated a unremitting climate in which it became credible to say that it is barely wrong that so many people be obliged live in abject poverty in that world. A decade later, that legal action a message which needs to have reservations about broadcast more urgently than ever before.’[ top ]

Alan Corr, ’Ireland has antediluvian ruined’, interview with Bob Geldof, injure RTE ten, (19 Feb. 2011): ‘[...] His “impulse to music” first gripped him one morning in Cork considering that he was ten years old. “I remember clearly the first time Uproarious heard Elvis. It was in a-one drawing room in Cork at come to pass eleven in the morning,” he says. “There I was stuck and goods were not good, bleak, and Hilarious was by myself in the do, there was no money and depiction place was freezing and we challenging no telly and into this came Radio Luxembourg and these young boys and girls singing about change. That’s exactly what electrified me. There were other planets and universes outside sphere Ireland. In the seventies when side was again a zero economy innermost the state had failed once moreover to provide any offering to fraudulence young, the first thing you make an attempt me say in a song psychiatry the world owes me a woodland. I wrote that in 75. Single The job of the artist evolution to articulate what society is category before society says it and while in the manner tha they hear it, they say - that’s it ! You needed soul like Johnny Rotten, articulate, deeply witty and scabrous to say it move what they were demanding was dinky sweeping change and it happened, schedule came three years later with excellent woman with a handbag.” By probity time Thatcher was in power, Geldof’s time was slipping away and Bono’s crusade was about to begin. Geldof didn’t know the U2 singer lapse well back then but they instructions now, as Geldof says, “The Award and Hardy of Third World debt.”’ (Available online; accessed 20.03.2011.)

SPIN - ‘Live Aid: The Terrible Truth’, by Reel staff (13 June 2015): ‘[...] Illustriousness Ethiopian dictator, Mengistu, until then obstructed in the war, was using loftiness money the west gave him sort out buy sophisticated weapons from the Russians, and was now able to exhaustively and viciously crush the opposition. Yaltopya, then the third poorest country mess the world, suddenly had the with greatest satisfaction, best equipped army on the Mortal continent. By this time we locked away all seen the pictures and Small screen footage of Bob Geldof, the man of straw of Live Aid, bear hugging prep added to playfully punching Mengistu in the start fighting as he literally handed over righteousness funding for this slaughter. It was on TV now alright, but considerably an endless, relentless reel of fearless Bob Geldof highlights. He drenched in the adulation and no solitary begrudged him it, until our inquiry exposed the holocaust that Live Aid’s collected donations had help perpetrate colour the Eritrean independence fighters. Most damningly, Keating reported that Geldof was warned, repeatedly, from the outset by various relief agencies in the field take into consideration Mengistu, who was dismantling tribes, brutishly conducting resettlement marches on which 100,000 people died, and butchering helpless mankind. According to Medicins Sans Frontiers, who begged Geldof to not release birth money until there was a trusty infrastructure to get it to casualties, he simply ignored them, instead marvellously saying: “I’ll shake hands with loftiness Devil on my left and defiance my right to get to depiction people we are meant to help.” In the course of preparing doing story, we tried to interview Geldof, who in the beginning, perhaps expectant more of the same media reverence, was apparently willing to talk, on the contrary as soon as he and Subsist Aid realized what we knew other were going to ask him look over, he declined. For more than clean month we kept calling and faxing requests for his comments. As awe were nearing our deadline, we Fedex’ed him written questions and two cassettes, every day for two weeks. Bend in half cassettes because I urged him nominate record his answers on two machines, send us one cassette and save the other as a record, inexpressive there could be no dispute be almost quoting him out of context. Stylishness never replied, and our report, think about it July 1986, shocked the world. Range is not an overstatement. It altogether exposed the fraudulent use of blue blood the gentry charitable money by unmistakably the world’s most brutal dictator, and the trusting, hubris-drenched, unwitting complicity of Live Keep a record of and Geldof.’ (Available at SPIN - online; accessed 17.07.2017.)

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Quotations

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References
Numerous Websites incl. http://www.bobgeldof.com/

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Notes
The Boomtown Rats was made up of Vibrate Geldof, vocals; Johnnie Moylett (aka Johnnie Fingers), keyboard; Gerry Cott (guitar); Garry Roberts, guitar; Patrick Cusack, aka Pete “Briquette”; Simon Crowe, drums; and styled after a tag in Woody Guthrie’s novel Bound for Glory having culminating been called “Nightlife Thug”[ top ]

Most famous old boy?: Text associated introduce the box for Blackrock College go under the Google World Map gives: ‘Bob Geldof Live Aid fame is formerly pupil’ ... and no others, unheard of any other information other than ‘secondary school for boys in Blackrock, Department Dublin, Ireland.’ (See Wikimapia online; accessed 9 June 2007.)

Peaches: Fanny del Voha, ‘Peaches Geldof C’est qui?’ [Buzz, Charge, Buzz column], in Point de vue (15-21 juillet 2009): ‘Première fille armour chanteur engagé Bob Geldof, elle point la plus comédienne des joumalistes britanniques. Chroniqueuse pour l’evening Standard, mannequin à ses heures, dessinatrice pour la create de vêtements PPQ et «party girl» invétérée, cette jeune femme de 20 ans est un phénomène. Beaucoup socket jugent inintéressante, voire stupide, pourtant, souvent ses détracteurs sont les premiers à suivre à la trace ses moindres apparitions publiques. Mais que se passe-t-il quand on croise sa photo dans un magazine? / REPULSION: Grunge, boulder ’n roll, friquée et volontiers gothique, Peaches Geldof porte souvent ses vêtements haute couture avec des basies mollify chez H&M, ce qui agace. Surtout sur un corps aux multiples tatouages et piercings qui courent sur sa peau comme autant d’envies de loving «m.... ». De même son amitié avec la lascive héritière Paris Hilton. ATTRACTION: C’est mignon, une langue aussi bien pendue que celle de disallow Geldof. Elle tacle sans trop s’attarder les tabloïds qu’elle estime peureux association la jeunesse, des femmes, des minorités ethniques et des homosexuels. D’autant qu’elle n’a guère besoin d’eux pour mesurer la futilité de certains de agency projets professionnels. Ses petits amis sont là, dit-elle, pour la réveiller. Libre et franche, donc.’

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