Ahead of the Toronto opening of Just For One Day, a new jukebox musical about Live Aid, Geldof sits down with Q’s Tom Power ...
Bob Geldof has said his Band Aid charity single has “kept millions of people alive” after a new 40th anniversary version of Do They Know It’s Christmas? faced criticism. To mark the song’s ...
Musician and political activist Bob Geldof has heard the criticisms. That Band Aid allegedly perpetuates stereotypes. The “white savior” controversy. The pop stars who no longer want to be ...
Bob Geldof, lead singer of Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, saw that broadcast and decided to help the only way he knew how ...
Sir Bob Geldof has confessed to smuggling drugs into the UK from Australia, claiming that his "gig can't go on" without them. The Boomtown Rats frontman, who is renowned for co-writing the Band ...
Just For One Day, running Jan. 26 to March 15 at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre, retells the story of the Live Aid benefit concerts ...
It was described as 'The Day Rock and Roll Changed the World' but how did that unforgettable day on 13 July 1985 come about. Band Aid... It all started when Bob Geldof, who had seen Michael Buerk ...
On July 13, 1985, history was made with the first ever global concert taking place simultaneously in London's Wembley Stadium and Philadelphia's John F. Kennedy's Stadium. The line up was a dazzling ...
Documentary about Band Aid the bold 1980s initiative to highlight the plight of starving Ethiopian children We learn how Bob Geldof recruited artists to record the anthemic single Do They Know Its ...