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Boomtown Rats singer donates Band Aid archive to National Library of Ireland
Sir Bob Geldof has made a surprise attack on the European Union. He also predicted a European war within two generations as the West lurches towards nationalism and populism. Sir Bob said that half the EU is desperately unhappy: “It doesn't function. It is ignoring the wishes of European citizens. GETTY.
Sir Bob said that the EU cannot function with so many members. Sir Bob said countries in the West are being reduced to economically competing states – and in that scenario countries “go to war at a scratch”. A “thuggish, predatory Russia being led by a brute” was already invading Europe as we speak, he added.
One of the most outlandish stunts of the referendum campaign was the clash of Sir Bob and Ukip leader Nigel Farage aboard flotillas on the River Thames. But the Irish rocker, who has an honorary knighthood, said he met Mr Farage earlier this week at a party and shook his hand.
DATA and One Campaign. Bob Geldof worked closely with DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa), an organisation founded by U2's Bono in 2002 to promote debt-relief, third world trade and AIDS relief in Africa. It merged with One Campaign in 2008, where Geldof also is very active.
They went on to organise the charity super-concert Live Aid the following year and the Live 8 concerts in 2005. Geldof currently serves as an adviser to the ONE Campaign, co-founded by fellow Irish rock singer and activist Bono, and is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. A single father, Geldof has also been outspoken for the fathers' rights movement.
He telephoned the British Prime Minister Tony Blair from Addis Ababa.
As Geldof began to learn more about the situation, he discovered that one of the main reasons why African nations were in such dire peril was the obligation to make repayments on loans that their countries had taken from Western banks. For every pound donated in aid, ten times as much would have to leave the country in loan repayments. It became obvious that one song was not enough.
In 1984, Geldof responded to a BBC news report from Michael Buerk about the famine in Ethiopia by mobilising the pop world to do something about the images he had seen. With Midge Ure of Ultravox he wrote " Do They Know It's Christmas? " in order to raise funds. The song was recorded by various artists under the name of Band Aid .
Geldof's first major charity involvement took place in September 1981, when he performed as a solo artist for Amnesty International 's benefit show The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, at the invitation of Amnesty show producer Martin Lewis; he performed a solo version of "I Don't Like Mondays". Other rock artists had 'planted a seed' and appeared to have affected Geldof in a similar manner.
Following that release, Geldof toured, albeit with mixed success. In July 2006, Geldof arrived at Milan 's Arena Civica, a venue capable of holding 12,000 people, to play a scheduled concert to find that the organisers had not put the tickets on general sale and that only 45 people had shown up.