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	Bob Geldof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geldof was born Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, to parents of Irish and Belgian extraction.
		Geldof was proud of his small involvement in the benefit - and noted the impact that a group of rock musicians assembled by one person could have on a cause.
		Geldof kept a November appointment with BBC Radio 1 DJ Richard Skinner, to appear on his show, but instead of discussing his new album as planned, he used the airtime to publicise the idea for the charity single; this generated intense media interest in the subject.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Geldof (3033 words)

	Bob Geldof Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
		Sir Bob is one of the world's most recognizable humanitarians, a driving force behind efforts to provide long-term and sustainable solutions to world hunger and poverty, and also an internationally successful new media entrepreneur.
		A native of Dublin, Geldof cut his teeth in the music scene as a rock journalist, before forming the band that evolved into the Boomtown Rats, one of the definitive bands of the punk/new wave explosion of the 1970s.
		In 1984 Geldof turned his attention to the dreadful famine that was plaguing Ethiopia in 1984.
	www.thelavinagency.com /usa/bobgeldof.html (802 words)

	Bob Geldof
		Bob Geldof (1957-) has two names to fame, as a rock musician and as a political campaigner on aid, debt and fair trade, especially with respect to Africa.
		Geldof hoped to raise somewhere around £70,000 pounds, however, the single became the biggest-selling single of all time (until the release of 'Candle in the Wind' by Elton John in 1997 on the death of Princess Diana) and raised many millions of pounds.
		When Nelson Mandela, with Bob Geldof at his side, launched Make Poverty History in Trafalgar Square in London, he called upon the people of the world to rise up in their millions and demand justice for the poor, what they wanted was justice not charity.
	www.heureka.clara.net /music/bob-geldof.htm (990 words)

	Bob Geldof
		Dublin born Bob Geldof initially entered the music scene as a journalist on Canada's premier underground rock journal Georgia Straight, then formed the group Nitelife Thugs, which became The Boomtown Rats, one of the first groups to emerge during the punk/New wave explosion of 1976/77.
		Geldof emerged as one of the most well-known pop personalities of his area, and went on to appear in the film of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
		Geldof was once again in the headlines in 1994, although this time not by his choosing.
	www.mychelsea.net /chelsea/celebs-bob.htm (1239 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Profile: Bob Geldof
		Geldof was born Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof on 5 October 1954 in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.
		Geldof painted a picture of a lonely childhood in Dublin, often at odds with his father.
		It was in the dying days of The Boomtown Rats that Geldof saw a TV report by the BBC's Michael Buerk of a humanitarian crisis developing in drought-hit Ethiopia, with millions facing a slow death from starvation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4564332.stm (882 words)

	The Bob Geldof Picture Pages
		Geldof continued to help with the administration of Band Aid, which effectively put his singing career on hold for a couple of years.
		Geldof was once again in the headlines in late 1994, although this time not by his choosing.
		Geldof returned to the music scene in September 2001 with his first new recording in over eight years.
	www.superiorpics.com /bob_geldof (588 words)

	Bob Geldof: Sex, Age & Death - PopMatters Music Review
		Before he was Saint Bob (and later officially anointed Sir Bob), he was Loudmouth Bob, the garrulous front man for punkers the Boomtown Rats, who were truly Ireland's finest before some young Turks decided to call themselves the U-2's.
		Geldof was suddenly one of the most revered men in rock.
		It may be unreasonable to expect Geldof to write the whimsical types of songs he wrote in his twenties, but a case could be made for writing something catchy.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/g/geldofbob-sex.shtml (989 words)

	musikk - Dagbladet.no
		Bob Geldof og Paula Yates' 17 år gamle datter har i det siste blitt observert på en rekke kjendissteder der hun forsøker å gjøre det meste ut av seg selv.
		Millions of people like to hear Bob Geldof talk about causes as diverse as debt relief and the rights of fathers but it seems not so many, at least in Italy, are as keen to hear him sing.
		Bob Geldof har lagt ned veto mot datterens planlagte tur til partyøya Ibiza.
	www.dagbladet.no /musikk/index.html?agent=549 (744 words)

	Amazon.com: The Vegetarians of Love: Music: Bob Geldof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Though Bob Geldof is one of the most interesting people in the music business, he misfires as much as (arguably more than) any other musician.
		Bob is a poet and a social commentator but he tries not to take himself too seriously (although, ironically, he does take that role seriously).
		Bob is the kind of guy that can sing a song like "Crucified Me" or "The End of the World" and at the end of it all...smile, and you smile with him.
	www.amazon.com /Vegetarians-Love-Bob-Geldof/dp/B000006YY9 (1758 words)

	Bob Geldof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bob Geldof speaks up for the rights of single fathers urging the courts to reject the idea that mothers always make better carers than men.
		Geldof's most recent high-profile crusade is to highlight the anti-father prejudice of the family courts.
		Geldof just says that when he sees something he thinks could be changed he considers it his duty to do anything in his power to flag it up.
	www.fathers.ca /bob_geldof.htm (1476 words)

	ENOUGH ROPE with Andrew Denton - episode 72: Bob Geldof (11/04/2005)
		SIR BOB GELDOF: Well, talk about the Stones, I mean, you know, Live Aid, I don't want to leap on to Live Aid, but it's a clear proof of what I'm about to say.
		SIR BOB GELDOF: And as I said, pop music suddenly became the lingua franca, and I think that elevated it, and all those things were why it worked.
		SIR BOB GELDOF: One of the papers said "One Geldof Bastard is Enough", when she all proudly announced her pregnancy.
	www.abc.net.au /tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1343226.htm (4782 words)

	BOB GELDOF AND THE BOOMTOWN RATS HISTORY \| LIVE 8 WORLD CONCERT JULY 2005 BEST EVER EVENT G8 NATIONS \| THE X FACTOR ...
		Robert Frederick Xenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE (born October 5, 1951 or 1954 in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin) is an Irish singer, songwriter and political activist.
		Geldof and Johnny Fingers agreed to a grueling tour of radio stations across the country (32 cities in 33 days!) to boost the album's release as well as the U.S. issue of "Rat Trap".
		In the meanwhile, we have Bob Geldof viewing a BBC broadcast documenting the devastation of drought ridden Ethiopia and East Africa.
	www.solarnavigator.net /music/bob_geldof.htm (4232 words)

	Bob Geldof - Gig Reviews - Music - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		It was 1984 when Geldof, sitting in front of the television because the Rats' latest single, Dave, was going nowhere, saw a now-legendary report on the Ethiopian famine and knew there was something he could do.
		Geldof was subsequently seen with the glamorous French actor Jeanne Marine - at one stage, they seemed to be at every party in town - while he and Yates battled, furiously and publicly, for custody of their three daughters.
		Hutchence's death in 1997, Yates's disintegration and death by overdose in 2000 and the subsequent quarrel over the future of the daughter of Yates and Hutchence with the Hutchence family were surely, whatever the rights and wrongs of the situation, the stuff of continuous nightmare.
	www.smh.com.au /news/gig-reviews/bob-geldof/2006/04/19/1145344128631.html' (1970 words)

	CNN.com - Geldof sees Live 8 as 'final push' - Jun 30, 2005
		In an interview with CNN, Geldof said the goal of doubling aid for Africa by 2010 to $25 billion -- laid out by the Commission for Africa, which is being spearheaded by British Prime Minister Tony Blair -- has nearly been met.
		Geldof -- who organized the original two Live Aid concerts in 1985 and vowed he'd never do it again -- said the need to bring aid to Africa is a cause too important to ignore.
		Geldof also heaped praise on U.S. President George W. Bush, who earlier Thursday announced he was proposing a doubling of U.S. aid to Africa by 2010 -- an estimated $8.6 billion that year, up from $4.3 billion in 2004.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/06/30/Live8.geldof (721 words)

	bobgeldof.info - News & Updates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bob Geldof follows the evolutionary trail of mankind from our 'Rift Valley' origins in the Laetoli Gorge, Tanzania to the point on the north-eastern coast of Africa where people first left to colonize the rest of the world.
		Bob journeys north up the river Congo on a UN patrol boat reflecting on the political chaos that rips Africa apart perpetuates corruption and stifles hope.
		Bob begins in northern Uganda where there is a little heard about war going on and to his disgust learns of the carnage and monstrous atrocities conducted by the Lord's Resistance Army towards children.
	www.bobgeldof.info /News/updates.html (5897 words)

	Bob Geldof
		To Penelope: My apologies--This has nothing to do with Bob Geldof, but related to the discussion somewhere about autism, I thought you might be interested in reading a fictional book I just finished called: The curious incident of a dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon.
		Geldof is living out his chart to make the world a better place and how this can astrologically be seen is a very helpful exercise.
		Bob Geldof is neither a politician nor a war lord: he is an artist.
	www.astrodatabank.com /NM/FeedbackPRT.asp?ChartID=11997&PgNum=1 (13663 words)

	MTV Think News - Live 8 Organizer Bob Geldof Nominated For Nobel Prize
		"Bob Geldof took the initiative in July 2005 to arrange a string of rock concerts to focus on the problems of poor nations, and pressure the world's leading politicians to take actions in fighting poverty," Simonsen said in a statement.
		Geldof will have to wait a year to find out if he will take his place alongside such past winners as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and former presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter, because the February 1 nomination deadline for the 2005 award has already passed.
		Geldof, 53, was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1986 for his pivotal work on Live Aid, which raised more than $100 million for African famine relief.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1505275/20050706/geldof_bob.jhtml?headlines=true (646 words)

	Bob Geldof
		He is 40 and says he feels it, though he doesn't look much different from when he was a young punk in the '70s band the Boomtown Rats.
		This day, stuck doing his eighth interview of the day, he is bored beyond belief.
		Recorded in 10 days, with Geldof composing most of the songs at the mike, "The Happy Club" is an ironic title for a collection of songs that lyrically are serious and thoughtful.
	www.jaehakim.com /articles/music/features/geldof.htm (550 words)

	BBC - Africa Lives - Geldof in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leaving Live8 and politics to one side, Bob Geldof makes a personal journey through Africa to understand ordinary Africans and, through their experiences, understand the forces that make the continent tick.
		Travelling through West Africa (Ghana, Benin and Mali), Central Africa (DR Congo and Uganda) and East Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania and Somalia), Geldof explores the continent that the rest of the world seems to be leaving behind.
		Geldof says of his experiences: "In Europe, we live in effect East to West - across one vast temperate climate zone.
	www.bbc.co.uk /africalives/features/geldof.shtml (383 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Media
		There are a great many Bob Geldofs, as one of the most loquacious and instantly recognisable people on the planet, happily acknowledges.
		There is "Saint Bob" from the millions he raised for Africa through Live Aid and last year's Live 8.
		There is also "Bob and Paula" after the tragic tabloid soap opera that saw him first lose his wife Paula Yates to the pop star Michael Hutchence, before both of them died prematurely.
	news.independent.co.uk /media/article356804.ece (262 words)

	TIME.com: Pooh-bahs of Poverty -- Jun. 27, 2005 -- Page 1
		In 1985 Bob Geldof gave birth to Live Aid, the groundbreaking rock-concert series that raised $200 million for African famine relief.
		BOB GELDOF Not to be immodest, but the first one was perfect in almost every sense.
		GELDOF The thing that ultimately did it for me was their [Bono's and Curtis'] insistence.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1074117,00.html (641 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Bob Geldof rails against e-mails
		Live8 organiser Bob Geldof has revealed his contempt for e-mails, blaming them for tying up people's time and stopping genuine action.
		Mr Geldof told a conference in London that e-mails "give a feeling of action, which is a mistake".
		A successful businessman as well as a social activist, Mr Geldof also warned of the perils of a badly-phrased e-mail, which he said he knows from personal experience can cause serious commercial harm.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4440768.stm (218 words)

	Bob Geldof denies Live Aid II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bob Geldof denies Live Aid II Bob Geldof Denies Live Aid II Bob Geldof is not planning to put on Live Aid II despite a report in an English newspaper over the weekend.
		The Sun reported Geldof would team with U2's Bono at the request of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to organise the sequel to the world's biggest ever charity music event Live Aid.
		Geldof dismissed the report and issued a statement saying "I told the Sun this afternoon it was not true.
	www.undercover.com.au /news/2004/june04/20040601_bobgeldof.html (217 words)

	NME.COM - Artists - Bob Geldof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BOB GELDOF EXPECTS LIVE 8 TO BE 'GLORIOUS FAILURE'
		Bob Geldof - Great Songs Of Indifference (The Anthology 1986-2001) [Digipak] £16.99 from 101cd.com
		Bob Geldof - Geldof in Africa £23.75 from Amazon UK
	www.nme.com /artists/bob-geldof (74 words)

	Rolling Stone : Bob Geldof's African Journey
		By organizing 1985's Live Aid and last year's Live 8 concerts, Bob Geldof has drawn worldwide attention to the poverty that haunts Africa and its citizens -- and generated more than $200 million for the fight.
		For his new BBC documentary, Geldof in Africa (out now on DVD), the musician-activist traveled through Somalia, Mali, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda and the Congo.
		Geldof, who has actively devoted much of the past twenty-five years to shining a light on the crises in Africa, says he's always made a conscious effort not to conflate his music with his politics.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/9222914/bob_geldofs_african_journey (346 words)

	CBC Arts: Bob Geldof to attend G-8 summit
		Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof has apparently been invited to attend the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, next week.
		A number of British media outlets were reporting Wednesday that the former Boomtown Rats lead singer would be among a group of delegates that is scheduled to address the meeting of world leaders.
		"I was happy to support Bob Geldof at the original Live Aid in 1985 with Run-DMC and it's really amazing to have the opportunity to make another contribution nearly 20 years later for such a worthy cause," said DMC, whose real name is Darryl McDaniels.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/06/29/Arts/geldof050628.html (1127 words)

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