And then there’s the stunt Sir Bob Geldof said his label pulled in the 1970s when they were trying to blow his band The Boomtown Rats up stateside. In 1984, he and Midge Ure founded the charity supergroup Band Aid to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. [Bob Geldof] climbed into our little studio and demanded to make an appeal. Did Bob Geldof’s work make any difference?
They went on to organise the charity super-concert Live Aid the following year and the Live 8 concerts in 2005.
Geldof is widely recognised for his activism, especially anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa. The interpreter, an Ethiopian who had spent most of his adult life working the European aid agencies, looked at me and asked: “Who’s Bob Geldof?” He made his case as to why people should put hands in their pockets to help the starving. In the interest of his ego, he gave the live aid money to the man responsible for the disaster, and it undoubtedly was used to make things worse. Bob Geldof voices his fears over Peaches dabbling with drugs before her death A few months prior to the July 2008 incident, she'd been filmed offering money to …
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