Bob Geldof
Bob Geldof was a punk-era frontman with a reputation for abrasive manners, and in November 1984 he had one day to turn a roomful of pop stars into a choir. On the 25th of November 1984, a crowd of famous singers gathered at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London. They recorded a Christmas song there in a single day, performing together under the name Band Aid.
The record that came out of that session would reach more listeners than almost anything Geldof had made with his own band. Yet the man behind it had spent years being thrown out of polite company. How did a rock singer from a Dublin suburb end up phoning a British prime minister from Africa? And why do admirers and critics still argue so bitterly about what his campaigns actually achieved?
Zenon was the middle name that made a boy miserable at Blackrock College in Dublin. It came from Zenon Geldof, a Belgian immigrant and hotel chef who was the grandfather of Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof.
Geldof was born on the 5th of October 1951 and grew up in Dún Laoghaire, in County Dublin. His father, Robert, lived from 1914 to 2010. His mother, Evelyn, had worked as head cashier at a cinema in Cork City, and that was where she met her husband. His other grandfather, Frederick Weller, was a dentist. His grandmother Amelia Falk was a British Jew from London, with German-Jewish ancestry.
In a 2011 interview with the Jewish Telegraph in Manchester, Geldof joked about the mixture. He described himself as a quarter Catholic, a quarter Protestant, a quarter Jewish and a quarter nothing, and said the nothing had won.
On the 5th of June 1960, when Geldof was eight years old, Evelyn died of a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 45. He had two sisters, Cleo and Lynn. Cleo died in 2010. Lynn became a writer, a journalist and a campaigner for Unicef.
At Blackrock College he was bullied, both for being a poor rugby player and for that unusual middle name. His first jobs were far from the stage. He worked as a slaughterman, as a road navvy, and as a pea canner in Wisbech, England.
Vancouver in Canada was the next stop, where The Georgia Straight hired him as a music journalist. For a short time he also guest hosted Switchback, a children's programme on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1975 he went back to Ireland, ready to try something louder than journalism.
In 1978, the Boomtown Rats took a song called "Rat Trap" to number one in the United Kingdom. It was the first new wave record ever to top the British chart. Geldof, the group's lead singer, had co-written it, and the band was closely linked with the punk movement.
The following year brought a second UK number one, "I Don't Like Mondays". It earned the Rats international attention. The song was both a hit and a source of controversy. Geldof wrote it after Brenda Ann Spencer's attempted massacre at an elementary school in San Diego, California, in 1979. In 1980 the band released the album Mondo Bongo.
Gay Byrne, host of Ireland's The Late Late Show, got a deliberately brusque guest when the Rats first appeared. Geldof attacked Irish politicians and the Catholic Church, which he called "a form of social repression". When nuns in the audience tried to shout him down, he answered that they had an easy life with no material worries, in exchange for giving themselves body and soul to the church. He also condemned Blackrock College, where priests had beaten him.
The interview was said to have "lit a fire under Ireland's youth". It also caused such an uproar that the Rats could not play in Ireland again.
In 1982, Geldof took the role of Pink in the film Pink Floyd - The Wall. He left the Rats in 1986 to go solo. His records sold reasonably well and produced hits such as "This Is The World Calling", which he co-wrote with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, and "The Great Song of Indifference".
He also guested with other artists, including Thin Lizzy and David Gilmour. A performance of "Comfortably Numb" with Gilmour appears on the DVD David Gilmour in Concert, from 2002. In 1992 he sang at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at the old Wembley Stadium, alongside the surviving members of Queen. His song there was "Too Late God", which he jokingly claimed to have written with Mercury. It was actually co-written by Karl Hyde.
Radio did not go as smoothly. While working as a DJ for XFM in 1998, Geldof wrongly announced that Ian Dury had died of cancer. The cause may have been a hoax from a listener angry about the station's change of ownership. The music paper NME, which had feuded with Geldof since his Rats days over his put-downs of The Clash, labelled him "the world's worst DJ".
In July 2006 he arrived at the Arena Civica in Milan, a venue that holds 12,000 people. The organisers had never put tickets on general sale, and only 45 people had turned up. Geldof refused to play, signed autographs as compensation, and then gave a well-attended free Storytellers concert for MTV Italy in Naples that October.
The Rats came back together after a long gap. In January 2013 Geldof announced a reunion for that year's Isle of Wight Festival in June, their first shows since 1986. For the band's 50th anniversary in 2025 they played a 12-date tour of the UK, and a compilation called "The First 50 Years: Songs of Boomtown Glory" came out on the 19th of September 2025.
Michael Buerk's BBC News report on the famine in Ethiopia in 1984 pushed Geldof to act. He joined Midge Ure of Ultravox to write "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and various artists performed it as Band Aid.
In its first week the single became the fastest-selling record in UK history. It entered the chart at number one and stayed there for five weeks, becoming the Christmas number one of 1984. It sold more than three million copies, which made it the biggest-selling single in British history, a title it kept for almost 13 years. In the United States it peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, selling an estimated 2.5 million copies by January 1985. Worldwide sales reached 11.7 million.
New versions followed in 1989 and 2004. In November 2014 Geldof announced Band Aid 30, an updated recording with the proceeds going to victims of the Ebola virus in West Africa.
As Geldof learned more, he found that African nations were crushed by repayments on loans from Western banks. For every pound given in aid, ten times as much left the country in repayments. One song, he concluded, would not be enough.
So he and Ure organised Live Aid. It took place at the same time on the 13th of July 1985 at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. The BBC made the unprecedented decision to clear its schedules for 16 hours of rock music. Phil Collins flew on Concorde so that he could play at both venues on the same day.
Geldof used the broadcast as a pressure tool. He twice mouthed profanities to shock viewers into giving, and he slammed his fist on a table, ordering people to stay in rather than go to the pub.
Nearly seven hours into the London show came the moment people remember. The presenter David Hepworth was reading out addresses for donations when Geldof cut in. He demanded phone numbers instead and used a profanity to do it. Legend says he also yelled at viewers to hand over their money, but Geldof insists he never said that. Because of his Irish accent, the swearing was reportedly misheard as "fock". Afterwards, donations rose to £300 per second.
Later, David Bowie introduced a harrowing film of dying, skeletal children. CBC photo-journalists had shot it, and it was set to the Cars song "Drive".
Live Aid raised over £150 million for famine relief. Geldof received an honorary knighthood at the age of 34. He is an Irish citizen, so the award is honorary, but the nickname "Sir Bob" stuck anyway. His autobiography, Is That It?, written soon after with Paul Vallely, even landed a place on the General Certificate of Secondary Education syllabus.
In January 2004, Geldof phoned the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, from Addis Ababa. On a visit to Africa he had come to believe that more people faced starvation than had died in the famine of 1984-85. According to Geldof's friend and biographer Paul Vallely, writing in the Live 8 programme notes, Blair replied: "Calm down Bob.... And come and see me as soon as you get back."
The result was the Commission for Africa. Blair invited Geldof and 16 other Commissioners, most of them African and many of them politicians in power, to spend a year studying the continent's problems. They reached two conclusions. Africa had to improve its governance and fight corruption, and the rich world had to back that change in new ways. That meant doubling aid, cancelling debts and reforming trade rules. The Commission reported in March 2005.
To keep the pressure on, Geldof and Ure announced Live 8 on the 31st of March 2005. The aim was to raise awareness of government debt, trade barriers, hunger and AIDS. The concerts took place on the 2nd of July 2005 in large cities of the industrialised world, including London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Philadelphia, Moscow and Johannesburg. They were free, and they came just days before world leaders met for the G8 summit at Gleneagles on the 6th of July.
Ure organised the "final push" show in Edinburgh. Geldof announced that the boys and girls with guitars would finally get to turn the world on its axis. In London, Pink Floyd played their first show since 1981 with original vocalist and bassist Roger Waters. The Commission's recommendations later became the blueprint for the G8's Gleneagles package on African debt and aid.
His partnership with Bono ran through other bodies too. DATA, which stands for Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa, was founded by Bono in 2002 and merged into the One Campaign in 2008. In June 2009, Geldof co-edited a special edition of the Italian newspaper La Stampa for One, timed for the 35th G8 summit. All this campaigning kept him from releasing new music after the 2001 album Sex, Age & Death.
Geldof also sits on the Africa Progress Panel, a group of ten distinguished individuals who push for fair and lasting development in Africa. Each year the panel publishes a report on one urgent issue. The 2012 edition covered jobs, justice and equity, and the 2013 edition turned to oil, gas and mining.
By 1992, Geldof was also a businessman, co-owning the television company Planet 24. It made The Big Breakfast, an early-morning show on Channel 4. Planet 24 was sold to Carlton TV in 1999. The next day Geldof and his partner Alex Connock founded another production company, Ten Alps. A formats company called Pretend followed in April 2011.
In 2007 he announced the Dictionary of Man with the director John Maguire, a BBC-financed project. Geldof had been thinking about it since a visit to Niger in the 1980s, when he realised how many native languages vanish as their last speakers die. He also became a founding partner of Groupcall in 2002, a company making communication software for schools and other sectors. His first interest came from worry about his children's safety. The Sunday Times Rich List put his wealth at £32 million in 2012.
The private equity firm 8 Miles, which Geldof chairs, drew harder scrutiny. It is named for the eight-mile width of the Strait of Gibraltar and aimed to earn a 20 per cent return by buying stakes in African startups. In July 2019, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reported through its Mauritius Leaks project that 8 Miles had set up subsidiaries in the tax haven of Mauritius. Geldof declined to comment.
A smaller row arose in mid-November 2008, when the organisation Diversity@Work invited him to Melbourne to speak on poverty. It later emerged that he was paid $100,000, plus a luxury hotel room and first-class airfares.
Live 8 attracted its own critics. John Hilary, then a senior executive of the Make Poverty History campaign, accused the concerts of hijacking it. They had been scheduled for the same day as a march in Edinburgh, said to be the largest social justice march in Scottish history. Others complained that few African acts played. Geldof replied that only the biggest-selling artists could draw the vast audience needed to get the world's attention before the G8.
He called Kumi Naidoo's criticism of the summit "a disgrace". Some leading African campaigners asked him to step aside from the anti-poverty movement, and between January and February 2006 the New Internationalist said that would be long overdue. Some also charged that the concerts backed the agendas of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown ahead of an election, though many felt the politicians had adopted Geldof's agenda, not the reverse.
The Gleneagles promises divided opinion. Kofi Annan called it "the greatest summit for Africa ever". Jeffrey Sachs saw "an important, if incomplete, boost" for the poorest countries. Many aid agencies were disappointed, because the strict conditions attached to debt relief left African states little better off.
Noel Gallagher of Oasis doubted the whole enterprise. He argued that rock stars have less sway over world leaders than popular culture assumes, and he mocked the idea of a G8 delegate on a break being moved by Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams".
The oldest accusation concerned Live Aid money in Ethiopia. Some journalists suggested the Derg military junta had used Live Aid and Oxfam funds for its forced resettlement programmes, which displaced at least 3 million people and reportedly killed between 50,000 and 100,000. In November 2010 the BBC formally apologised to Geldof for misleading implications in its reports and said it had "no evidence" that Band Aid money specifically bought weapons.
In December 2005, Geldof agreed to advise the Conservative Party on global poverty, but he made clear he cared little for party politics. He said he would shake hands with the devil on his left and the devil on his right to get where the world needed to be.
His positions have crossed the usual lines. In 2002 he appeared in an advertisement against Britain joining the single European currency. In 2004 he called the European Union's response to Ethiopia's food crisis "pathetic", and the MEP Glenys Kinnock answered that his comments were "unhelpful and misinformed". During a 2003 visit to Ethiopia he praised U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to fight AIDS in Africa. Before the 2024 UK general election he posted a video backing Andrew Mitchell. In July 2025 he accused Israeli authorities of lying about the famine in Gaza.
Nationalism is his steadiest target. He calls patriotism "entirely good and healthy", a real sense of who you belong to, but warns that evil people can turn that feeling into a political philosophy that leads only to blood.
That view shaped a dispute over Irish history. In 2016, as Ireland marked 100 years since the Easter Rising, Geldof compared Patrick Pearse's call for a "blood sacrifice" to the dogma of Islamist suicide bombers. In 2018 he called the Rising the "original sin" of the Irish state. He said the Famine, not 1916, was the true turning point in Irish history.
Geldof had received the Freedom of the City of Dublin in 2006. In 2017 he gave it back, protesting that Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi held the same honour while the Rohingya faced ethnic cleansing. Lord Mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha called the gesture ironic, since Geldof kept his British knighthood. A month later Dublin City Council voted to revoke the honour from both Suu Kyi and Geldof. Geldof called the vote a "Sinn Féin stitch-up".
Brexit drew his fiercest language. He called it an expression of English nationalism and predicted disaster for Britain and Ireland. Shortly before the referendum on the 23rd of June 2016, he led a flotilla on the River Thames against a rival one led by Nigel Farage, in what was described as the most surreal day in British politics ever. Later that year he campaigned for Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney in the Richmond Park by-election and called Brexit the greatest act of national self-harm in British history.
He has also turned on leaders abroad. In 2016 he denounced Putin, Erdogan, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump as "thugs".
From January 2002 until sometime in 2005, he listened closely to fathers' rights campaigners, with sacks of mail arriving daily from men unhappy with the British family courts. He coined the phrase "Sad Dads on Sundays Syndrome" and called for the Children Act to be repealed.
On climate, he has been blunter. In 2007 he dismissed hybrid cars as "not coherent" and wind and wave power as "Mickey Mouse", urging a rapid expansion of nuclear power instead. In 2019 he wrote in the Guardian that 820 million people faced chronic food insecurity. In October 2022 he backed climate activists who threw soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery, calling the act "1,000% right" because the glass protected the painting.
His language about the AIDS epidemic also provoked anger. At the 2014 International AIDS Conference he called sex workers "hookers". Christian Vega, a sex workers' rights activist, argued that such wording keeps up the stigma that blocks HIV prevention. Geldof held that rights-based language was a distraction and told delegates to call it as it is.
In 1976, Paula Yates flew to Paris to surprise Geldof while the Boomtown Rats were playing there, and the two became a couple. Yates was a rock journalist who had been an obsessed fan of the band. She later presented the music show The Tube, which ran from 1982 to 1987, and became known for in-bed interviews on The Big Breakfast from 1992.
Their first daughter, Fifi Trixibelle Geldof, was born on the 31st of March 1983. She was named Fifi after Bob's aunt, and Trixibelle because Yates wanted a "belle" in the family. After ten years together, the couple married in June 1986 in Las Vegas, with Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran as Geldof's best man. Peaches Honeyblossom was born on the 13th of March 1989, and Little Pixie on the 17th of September 1990.
In February 1995, Yates left Geldof for Michael Hutchence, lead singer of the Australian band INXS. She had first met him in 1985, when she interviewed him on The Tube. The Geldofs divorced in May 1996, and Yates and Hutchence had a daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, known as Tiger, in July 1996.
Hutchence died by suicide in a Sydney hotel room on the 22nd of November 1997. Geldof and Yates each gave police statements about phone calls they had exchanged with Hutchence that morning. Geldof's evidence described a man who was hectoring, abusive and threatening, whom he had listened to patiently. The guest in the next hotel room heard a loud male voice swearing at about 5:00 a.m., and the coroner was satisfied it was Hutchence arguing with Geldof.
Geldof later went to court and won full custody of his three children. Yates died of a heroin overdose in 2000, and Geldof became Tiger's legal guardian. He adopted her in 2007, and as of 2022 her legal name is Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence-Geldof.
In April 2014 his daughter Peaches died at the age of 25, of a heroin overdose. Geldof said the family was "beyond pain".
On the 1st of May 2014 he announced his engagement to the French actress Jeanne Marine, his partner of 18 years. They married in France on the 28th of April 2015, and they now live in Battersea, in south London.
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What is Band Aid?
Band Aid was a charity supergroup of various artists that Bob Geldof and Midge Ure organised in 1984. It recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in a single day to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia.
What was Live Aid?
Live Aid was a concert held on the 13th of July 1985 at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. The BBC cleared its schedules for 16 hours to broadcast it, and it raised over £150 million for famine relief.
Is Bob Geldof really a knight?
He was given an honorary knighthood (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986. Because he is an Irish citizen the award is honorary, so he is not styled "Sir", although the nickname "Sir Bob" has stuck.
What was Live 8?
Live 8 was a series of free concerts held on the 2nd of July 2005 in large cities of the industrialised world, days before the G8 summit at Gleneagles. Geldof and Midge Ure organised it to press leaders on African debt, trade barriers, hunger and AIDS.
Why did Dublin revoke Geldof's Freedom of the City?
Geldof returned his Freedom of Dublin in 2017 in protest at Aung San Suu Kyi holding the same honour. A month later Dublin City Council voted to revoke the award from both of them, and Geldof blamed his earlier comments on the Easter Rising.
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