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| | Bob Geldof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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. | | | Geldof's wealth was estimated by Broadcast magazine in 2001 to be £30m [1], a position of 18th in a list of UK broadcasters. | | | It was later covered by rock group Bon Jovi on their 1995 album These Days, and Geldof joined them for a duet of the song on June 25, 1995 at a concert in Wembley Stadium in London, almost exactly ten years after Geldof performed the song at Live Aid. |
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| | Astrology Software for Research - Bob Geldof - astrology chart |
| | Controversial and outspoken, Geldof was a favorite of the punk rockers, and he and the Rats issued six albums in between several hit singles. | | | Geldof and his music mates formed "Boomtown Rats" in the mid 1970s, with their first hit single "Rat Trap" issued in 1978. | | | In 1984, having seen a TV special on famine in Africa, Geldof and Midge Ure wrote the now-famous song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" He brought together popular musicians, labeled the group "Band Aid," and released their recording of the song for the 1984 holiday season. |
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| | Bob Geldof Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency |
| | 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. | | | More than 1,000 musicians performed at the concerts, which were broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks. | | | The record inspired 1985's mammoth Live Aid extravaganza in which Geldof herded together rock's elite to play before a worldwide television audience of over a billion people. |
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| | Live Aid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The decision to finally release it was taken by Bob Geldof nearly 20 years after the original concerts, after he found a number of pirate copies of the concert on the Internet (see full story here). | | | The DVD was produced by Geldof's company, Woodcharm Ltd., and distributed by Warner Music Group. | | | When Bob Dylan broke a guitar string, Ron Wood took off his own guitar and gave it to Dylan. |
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| | Amazon.com: Vegetarians of Love: Music: Bob Geldof |
| | Geldof is a musician who has worked hard in his life and it shows in this song. | | | 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 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. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006YY9?v=glance
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| | Africa bores me, Geldof says. 01/02/2005. ABC News Online |
| | Bob Geldof, the musician better known for founding the Live Aid and Band Aid music acts for charity, says he is sick of being "Mr Bloody Africa". | | | Geldof, formerly of the 1970s band the Boomtown Rats, complained that he and U2 frontman Bono got more press as campaigners for aid to Africa than as musicians. | | | Sales of the single, which topped the British charts in early December, go to relief work in the Darfur region of Sudan. |
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| | bobgeldof.info - News & Updates |
| | Bob will sign the albums in February and they will be despatched at the beginning of March. | | | The documentary soundtrack to the BBC's Geldof In Africa Series will be released at the end of October on CD format to accompany the release of the DVD of the same series. | | | There will also be a Best Of Geldof solo album, which is provisionally due for release in November. |
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| | CMT.com : Bob Geldof : Biography |
| | Geldof formed the punk group Boomtown Rats in 1975. | | | Instead of using an all-star cast found on his previous two albums, Geldof put a band together for the solid 1993 release Happy Club. | | | In 1986, The Rats split and Geldof launched a solo career, again with greater success in England than in the U.S. Deep In the Heart of Nowhere appeared that same year, however Geldof's signature lyrical intellect wasn't up to par. |
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| | Bob Geldof: Sex, Age & Death - PopMatters Music Review |
| | The music gets short shrift to the lyrical exorcism Geldof conducts here, and while it undoubtedly cleansed his soul in the process, listening to the procedure is rather difficult. | | | Sickened after watching a BBC special on the rampant starvation in Ethiopia, Geldof and his buddy Midge Ure from Ultravox made a few phone calls, assembled a lineup that was a Who's Who of UK pop in 1984 and, 24 hours later, had recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas?", the best benefit song ever. | | | It's dour stuff, the darkest album he's ever done, which is understandable given the massacre that has been the last seven years of his life. |
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| | Bob Geldof biography |
| | As well as releasing quality music, The Boomtown Rats' concerts were electric. | | | There would be free concerts with many of the world's leading musicians as a prelude to a rally in Edinburgh on 6 July where the G8 summit was being held. | | | In 1982 Geldof appeared in Alan Parker's movie of Pink Floyd's The Wall. |
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| | Bob Geldof News - Music Industry Today |
| | Bob Geldof, former leader of the Irish punk group the Boomtown Rats, is also among the... | | | Helping to lift the lid on Aids Bob Geldof has praised a charity album released to raise money for sexual health education. | | | Crusading rocker BOB GELDOF has been branded an "angry Irishman" by his own daughter, who insists he is... |
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| | Amazon.com: Sex, Age & Death: Music: Bob Geldof |
| | The live performances of the songs on this CD are emotionally unsettling. | | | It's hard to imagine Sex, Age, and Death displacing 1994's The Vegetarians of Love as anyone's favorite Bob Geldof album, bereft as it is of the latter's freewheeling Celtic crunch and prickly bonhomie. | | | I've been a fan of Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats since the 2nd album. |
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| | Live 8 News: Bob Geldof unveils five Live 8 shows >> liveDaily |
| | Bob Geldof (music), co-founder of 1985's Live Aid benefit, has announced plans for Live 8 (music), five simultaneous concerts set for July 2 that aim to spotlight the issues of global poverty and debt. | | | U2 (music), Madonna (music), Elton John, Sting and Paul McCartney (music) are among the artists set to perform at the event's flagship show at London's Hyde Park, while the U.S. show, at Philadelphia's Museum of Art, will feature 50 Cent, Dave Matthews Band, Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder and host Will Smith, among others. | | | The full list of performers, by venue, is below, and additional concerts are in the works. |
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| | Artists2Events - Bob Geldof |
| | Listening to Sex, Age and Death, Geldof's first album for five long years, you can sense this imperative at work in every track. | | | "In my head," says Bob Geldof, who spends a great deal of his time in there, "Music is what I do. | | | But music is central to who I am. |
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http://www.artists2events.co.uk/artists/bobgeldof.html
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| | CBC Arts: Geldof defends Bush's Africa policy |
| | Geldof was also asked how he is paying for the concerts, to which admittance is free. | | | Time asked Geldof about the criticism from some corners about the predominantly white lineup for the concerts. | | | RELATED STORY: Venue for Canada's Live 8 concert still unconfirmed |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/06/20/Arts/geldof050620.html
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| | In The Long Grass: Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats |
| | Bob Geldof also sang backing vocals on "Il Bicchiere Dell 'Addio", the seventh track on this album. | | | These cds are available now from both Amazon.com in the U.S. and Amazon.co.uk in the U.K. Each of the reissued albums include a few extra bonus tracks making these a MUST HAVE for all fans of The Rats or Bob Geldof. | | | Jiggerypipery is a "Celtic Rock and Roll band" featuring Simon Crowe on drums and percussion, James Robertson on the great highland bagpipes, Tony Bayliss on guitar and vocals, Carl Allerfeldt on the fiddle, and Pete Bingham on bass guitar. |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Music Geldof rallies Glastonbury crowd |
| | Geldof's Live 8 concerts, which take place around the world on 2 July, aim to put pressure on world leaders to eliminate poverty in Africa. | | | Coldplay are headlining on Saturday, with New Order and Keane also playing, as the Somerset festival gets back on track after Friday's flooding. | | | Everyone just stopped and listened as soon as he came on |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4620635.stm
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| | Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays |
| | Singer Bob Geldof embarked on a solo career, and while not finding pop huge success he has made his mark on pop culture by playing the lead role in Pink Floyd's The Wall. | | | The Boomtown Rats' popularity never rose beyond their successes of the late '70s, and after the weak sales of their 1982 album "V Deep" the band had reached its end. | | | His shining moment came in the mid '80s, co-writing Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" with Midge Ure and putting together the highly successful Live Aid concert. |
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| | Live Aid - A Celebration |
| | Written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, the song was recorded on November 25th 1984 by a group consisting of almost 40 of the UK and Ireland's best-known pop stars of the time. | | | Michael Buerk's BBC documentary in October 1984 brought home the true horror of the situation to people in the UK, and shortly thereafter Bob Geldof brought about the recording of the Band Aid single. | | | Several other countries and organisations followed suit (the best-known being USA for Africa with "We Are The World"), until in early 1985 the idea of a concert to raise money for the cause was suggested. |
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| | CBC Arts: There will be no Live Aid sequel: Bob Geldof |
| | LONDON - Bob Geldof has thrown cold water on speculation that a second Live Aid concert will be staged this summer. | | | RELATED STORY: Geldof relents, allows Live Aid DVD release | | | RELATED STORY: Band Aid 20 tops British music charts |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/05/09/Arts/geldof050509.html
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| | CNN.com - Geldof sees Live 8 as 'final push' - Jun 30, 2005 |
| | (CNN) -- Bob Geldof, the Irish rocker who is organizing Live 8, said Thursday that this weekend's concerts in 10 cities across the globe will be the "final push" in getting the world's richest leaders to come to the aid of impoverished Africa. | | | Waters added he was excited to "be given the opportunity to put the band back together, even if it's only for a few numbers." | | | U2's Bono discusses the Live 8 benefit concerts(3:35) |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/30/Live8.geldof
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| | AEGiS-BBC: Bob Geldof: Ragged-trousered pragmatist |
| | Whatever the rights and wrongs of Bob Geldof's latest cri de coeur, people listen to him in the way they don't register politicians. | | | The man they call Bob the Gob maintained a dignified silence throughout. | | | Ironically, the only part of Bob Geldof from which he says he derives real satisfaction, his music, has recently been his least successful. |
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| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Geldof, Bob |
| | Known at the starting gates for his snappy, dead-on songs for the Boomtown Rats, the 48-year-old is now as famous for his Shakespeare-level real-life tragedy. | | | His new album, Sex, Age & Death, doesn't just tap into that theme -- it mainlines it, putting a half-decade of pain and trauma into a vivid shape. | | | Bob Geldof describes his personal state in recent years as that of raw nerves. |
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| | U2, McCartney, Coldplay Top Live 8 Lineup - May 31, 2005 - E! Online News |
| | On Tuesday, Geldof unveiled a Live Aid sequel, dubbed Live 8, that aims to be bigger than the original and will feature a who's-who of the top music acts in the world, including Paul McCartney, U2, Coldplay, Madonna, Brian Wilson and Dave Matthews Band, participating in a series of mega-concerts. | | | Two decades after he masterminded Live Aid, the largest charity concert ever mounted, to fight famine in Africa, the 58-year-old singer-activist has announced an encore. | | | Geldof says Live 8 should exceed its predecessor in terms of viewership--it will be beamed worldwide to more than 2 billion people over various cable and satellite channels. |
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| | BOB GELDOF - GELDOF TURNED DOWN BRANSON.S GBP2 MILLION |
| | Irish rocker BOB GELDOF was once offered a $3.2 million (GBP2 million) record deal by business supremo RICHARD BRANSON, but turned it down. | | | The BOOMTOWN RATS frontman was just an aspiring musician when the British VIRGIN RECORDS boss made him the generous offer, but sensible Geldof made sure he explored all other deals before eventually rejecting the money. | | | The group eventually signed with rival label ENSIGN, but Geldof's friendship with Branson endured. |
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| | Bob Geldof music : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY |
| | ''There's never going to be a Live Aid II,'' Bob Geldof said Thursday at the Ivor Novello songwriting awards ceremony in London, ''but there's something brewing.'' The Boomtown Rats frontman, along with Ultravox singer Midge Ure, confirmed that they're planning a 20th anniversary follow-up to the rockers-for-Africa benefit concerts they organized in 1985. ''It's big. | | | Bob Geldof plans 20th anniversary Live Aid concert. | | | The rumors have the show taking place in London's Hyde Park, with a possible same-day show in Washington, D.C., just like the 1985 Live Aid shows, which took place just hours apart in London and Philadelphia. |
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| | MTV.com - think - Headlines - Live 8 Organizer Bob Geldof Nominated For Nobel Prize |
| | Bob Geldof To Induct Van Morrison Into Irish Music Hall | | | The disheveled rocker has been nominated for the 2006 | | | "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. |
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| | Bob Geldof denies Live Aid II |
| | Get Bob Geldof Sex Age and Death CD TODAY from HMV.com.au | | | Get Undercover Music News headlines FREE in your inbox every day. | | | 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. |
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| | Geldof, Bob - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Geldof, Bob |
| | In partnership with musician Midge Ure (1953– ), Geldof gathered together many pop celebrities of the day to record Geldof's song ‘Do They Know It's Christmas?’ (1984), donating all proceeds to charity (it sold 7 million copies). | | | Inspired by a 1984 BBC documentary about famine in Ethiopia, in 1985 he organized two simultaneous celebrity concerts under the name Live Aid, one in London and one in Philadelphia, which were broadcast live worldwide. | | | In the mid-1980s he instigated the charity Band Aid, which raised some £60 million for famine relief, primarily for Ethiopia. |
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| | Commission for Africa - The Commissioners |
| | He was the lead singer of the Dublin band, The Boomtown Rats, and has also recorded four solo albums. | | | Bob Geldof, Musician and founder of Live Aid, Ireland | | | Geldof has a number of different business interests, and in 1991, founded Planet 24, one of the largest independent production companies in the UK. |
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| | Technorati Tag: Bob Geldof |
| | Download Bob Geldof Music Unlimited access to an over 1,300,000 song library including all Bob Geldof tracks. | | | Free music downloads during 14 day trial, $9.99 per month to continue. | | | Bob Geldof got screwed The man in the middle... |
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| | CBS News Rockers, Rappers Unite For Africa June 30, 2005 13:30:34 |
| | Twenty years after he organized the landmark Live Aid concerts, Bob Geldof announced plans Tuesday for the Live 8 concerts. | | | Live Aid remains the biggest event in music history with one and a half billion television viewers. | | | They will take place July 2, just days before leaders of the world's richest countries, the G8, meet in Britain. |
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| | Bob Geldof in The Sunday Times |
| | Reproduced below is an article written by Bob Geldof and published in the Sunday Times of September 7th 2003. | | | The article is an abridged version of a chapter written by Geldof for a new book, Children and their Families, published by Hart Publishing. | | | The full 30 page chapter is available in the Members Area or you can order the book, Children and their Families, from this site. |
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| | NPR : Bob Geldof and the Launch of 'Live 8' |
| | The musician and activist recently announced plans for concerts to be held on July 2, in five countries. | | | Talk of the Nation, June 8, 2005 · Twenty years after Live Aid, Bob Geldof launches another group of international concerts aimed at fighting poverty and famine in Africa. | | | Bob Geldof and the Launch of 'Live 8' |
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| | spiked-politics Article Where are the bodies, Bob? |
| | For Geldof, this story just about summed up the tragedy of Africa. | | | Bob Geldof, the tousle-haired rocker turned self-styled spokesman for Africa, is everywhere lately. | | | Other than that, Geldof's facts have not been interrogated and his claims that 'African children were washing up daily on [Lampedusa's] beaches' have gone unchallenged. |
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| | They will only have the will to do so if tens of thousands of people show them that enough is enough. | | | Already up to 20 million people are expected to offer their support as part of the biggest mobilisation against global inequality ever seen. | | | Bob Geldof is calling on sailors and boat owners,to form a massive flotilla across the Channel in July as part of the global call for action against poverty (GCAP). |
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| | Frontman for the late 70s to late 80s band, the Boomtown Rats Also wrote... | | | Find where Bob Geldof is credited alongside another name | | | Am I the only teenager with a crush on him? |
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| | curlio.com: Bob Geldof calls eBay 'sick profiteering' |
| | Another case of celebrities patting themselves on their backs for being concerned about humanity, while doing nothing concrete to actually improve it. | | | Geldof is the ultimate profiteer here and quite naturally doesn't want anyone to have his share of profits (or at least in other forms of business like eBay where he cannot partake). | | | Bob Geldof, organizer behind the free Live 8 concerts, has accused eBay and those who tried to sell their Live 8 tickets on it of "sick profiteering." Apparently several people who managed to get ticket through the text messaging system had decided to sell their tickets on eBay. |
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| | GIGWISE.com Keith Richards Attacks Bob Geldof's Political Connections |
| | Referring to the pressure applied to him by Sir Bob to take part, he added: “Oh yeah, all the Sirs had a bash, believe me. I wondered who was pulling the strings, that's all." | | | Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says the band refused to play Live 8 because they were suspicious of Bob Geldof’s political connections. | | | In their own words - "A mash up of filthy bass lines, play ground hip hop and raw disco punk."... |
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| | Rolling Stone : Bob Geldof Blasts eBay |
| | Home : Music News : Bob Geldof Blasts eBay | | | eBay responded to Geldof's criticism with a statement of their own: "The reselling of charity concert tickets is not illegal under English law, and eBay believes it is a fundamental right for someone to be able to sell something that is theirs whether they paid for it or won it in a competition." | | | "I am sick with this, what eBay are doing is profiteering on the backs of the impoverished," reads a statement from Geldof on his Web site. |
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| | Bob Geldof - Vicipéid |
| | I ndiaidh Band Aid, chuir Geldof agus a chomhghleacaithe dhá cheolchoirm sa tsiúl faoin ainm Live Aid i Londain agus i Philadelphia ar an 13 Iúil 1985. | | | Lean Geldof ar aghaidh lena chuid oibre ar son na h-Afraice, ag tabhairt tacaíochta do Iubhaile 2000, feachtas chun fiacha na hAfraice a chur ar ceal. | | | Is amhránaí, scríbhneoir amhrán agus gníomhaíoch polaitiúil é Robert Frederick Xenon "Bob" Geldof. |
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| | bobgeldof.info - The Official Bob Geldof Website |
| | Bob Geldof Great Songs of Indifference - The Anthology 1986 - 2001 | | | BUY NOW Bob Geldof Great Songs of Indifference Box Set LIMITED EDITION SIGNED COPIES ONLY | | | Limited Edition of 200 signed Bob Geldof Pop Art Prints |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Music eBay prevents Live 8 ticket sales |
| | But Geldof said of the offer: "It is filthy money made on the back of the poorest people on the planet. | | | The minister for music, James Purnell, said he "wholeheartedly" shared Geldof's annoyance and had asked the site to halt the sales. | | | He said people had realised that "the weakest people on our planet" were being exploited and they were "sickened by that". |
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| | The Sheila Variations: "The Second Coming" of Bob Geldof |
| | His stuff, in a way, was a precursor to what took over the world in 1991 with the release of Nirvana's "Nevermind". | | | We also were big big big into "DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME AT AAAALLLLL." - the song, sure, but also who Bob Geldof was. | | | I think it's awesome what he's trying to do. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK Geldof urges custody laws change |
| | Geldof says that from the outset of any case the mother is favoured regardless of the specific circumstances of a family. | | | Bob Geldof says British child custody laws must be ''scrapped" for not acting in the best interests of the child and for ''discriminating'' against fathers. | | | The father-of-four criticises laws which he says led to bitter experiences during his custody battle with his former wife, the late Paula Yates. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Geldof back in Ethiopia |
| | Lord Alli, the aid activist who is accompanying Geldof on the trip organised by the UN children's aid agency Unicef, echoed his praise of the Bush administration. | | | This is the Irish musician's first visit to Ethiopia since the 1985 Live Aid concert that raised $60m for famine victims. | | | In a dark hut of mud and sticks, he traded jokes with Shashitu Fikadu, 10, and her brother, Assefa, 13, who respectively want to become a doctor and a mechanic. |
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| | 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. | | | When we discuss it, I'm with him all the way about fathers loving their children just as much as mothers, but he loses me a bit when he starts claiming that women are so unwilling to concede their 'power' in the domestic arena that we belittle male attempts to vacuum. | | | campaigning to give fathers more access to their children and, in June, Mr Geldof will be the keynote speaker at their annual conference. |
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