Bob Geldof

The question I’m always asked, of course, is: was it all worth it, what’s changed in Ethiopia and in Africa as a whole ... government could be more transparent, but on the whole this is a country making progress, in a continent that has been ...  

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a song written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 to raise money for relief of 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia. The original version was produced by Midge Ure and released by Band Aid on 29 November 1984. In late 1984, a BBC report by Michael Buerk was aired highlighting the famine that had hit the people of Ethiopia. Irish singer Bob Geldof saw the report and wanted to raise money. He called Midge Ure from...  

SIR BOB GELDOF fought back tears as he visited Ethiopia on a recent trip to open a school funded by the profits of his 2004 BAND AID 20 record.Do They Know It's...  

London, Nov 30 (ANI): Sir Bob Geldof found it hard to hold back tears as he visited Ethiopia to inaugurate a school financed by the profits of his 2004 Band Aid 20 record. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was re-recorded to raise money five years ago ...  

If Bob Geldof has dreams of one day becoming President of Ireland he and his French actress girlfriend Jeanne Marine are going the right way about it. On Monday night in London the couple came over all Sarkozy and Carla Bruni.  

Peaches Geldof dreams about bread.The British presenter - who is the daughter of Boomtown Rats singer and political activist Bob Geldof - often finds herself...  

We want you to pass on our thanks to the brothers and sisters outside Ethiopia who helped us," said Alana Abraham, 52, who had arrived at Korem with three brothers and was the only one of his family to survive. "Is there anything else we could do for ...  

Bob Geldof fought back tears as he visited Ethiopia on a recent trip to open a school funded by the profits of his 2004 Band Aid 20 record. He reunited with Birhan Woldu, who featured in the video for the original 1984 release, and the rocker admits ...  

The recently concluded Youth Engagement Summit 2009 (YES2009) conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia brought together an impressive line-up of speakers. One of them was Sir Bob Geldof, best known as being the founder of Live Aid and Live 8. Live Aid and Live 8 Back in the 1980s, rock music star (lead singer of Boomtown Rats) Sir [...] Related posts:Represent Singapore at Youth Engagement Summit 2009  

WHILE many of Sir Bob Geldof’s fans may be excited about his new album expected to be released in January, I for one am more excited about his next charity concert. Geldof was in Kuala Lumpur last week to speak at the Youth Engagement Summit, a gathering of youth leaders from Southeast Asia.  

Geldof is miffed at not getting a chance to give Northern Ireland the TV newsBob Geldof has lent his weight to calls for Northern Ireland to be included in the pilots for the government's planned independently financed news consortiums. Ten Alps, the production company he founded, wants the chance to be bid against the present provider of channel 3 news in Northern Ireland, UTV. But while there will be pilots in Scotland, Wales and one English...  

Sir Bob Geldof attended a special dinner hosted by the Cinema for Peace in Berlin on Sunday, a day before the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The dinner was to celebrate former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev who was awarded with the Cinema for Peace Honorary Award.  

Campaigning singers praise the government's promise to enshrine its international development spending in lawHe may have been showered with accusations of electioneering from opposition parties and a mixed bag of reactions from the unions, but Gordon Brown managed to get the thumbs up from Bono and Bob Geldof for including a "wonderful thing" in his last batch of bills before the general election – the enshrinement in law of a funding promise...  

Korem - Twenty-five years after releasing a hit single to raise funds for victims of Ethiopia's infamous famine, Bob Geldof on Wednesday visited one of the then worst-affected villages in the north of the Horn of Africa country. Dozens of children ...  

Twenty-five years after releasing a hit single to raise funds for victims of Ethiopia's infamous famine, Bob Geldof on Wednesday visited one of the then worst-affected villages in the north of the Horn of Africa country. Dozens of children and women ...