“Nothing holds a candle to the original version no matter how much Bob Geldof wants to paint it differently. Not sure how it raises money either in the age of streaming?” “Tbh, Band Aid 40 ...

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 ...

Sir Bob Geldof has dismissed claims that the success of Live Aid was down to Queen's iconic performance, as portrayed in the ...

That is the insight from man behind the biggest charity gig of all time Sir Bob Geldof, just months before its 40th anniversary in July. Sir Bob was keen to shut down suggestions that Queen’s ...

Bob Geldof has admitted sneaking drugs into the UK when he returns from trips to Australia as the "gig can't go on" otherwise. The Boomtown Rats singer, famed for co-writing the Band Aid track ...

In Toronto during a press tour for Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical, Bob Geldof is asked by a photographer ... British and Irish super-group Band Aid. “It does play on people’s ...

HIT French band Air and Bob Geldof's The Boomtown Rats are among the first names announced for this year's Fringe by the Sea festival.

Boomtown Rats star Bob Geldof, electronica band Air and politician Rory Stewart are to headline a summer festival on the Scottish coast. The first tickets have been released for the 17th Fringe By The ...

Spearheaded by Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats and singer ... Live Aid started as Band Aid, where Geldof and Ure decided the best way they could assist was through the medium they knew - music.

Bob Geldof urged Tony Blair to take the lead in overhauling the system of international development aid for Africa as he considered African leadership on the issue to be “very weak”, according ...

The Irish musician and activist Bob Geldof is perhaps best known as one of the organizers of Live Aid, the massive two ... agreed to get in touch with the band to ask them to participate.