Movies: Bob Geldof

The story of The Boomtown Rats, who fought a conservative Ireland, broke through the UK punk scene, scored global No 1 hits and revolutionised the world with Bob Geldof’s Live Aid....

A legendary music industry figure and star-maker takes a late-in-life career left turn, to write and perform his own music with a little help from his friends....

Jools Holland takes us on a journey of his life that has made him the doyen of the music scene....

There's 27 million slaves in the world today. We find them in the sex industry, as child soldiers, as unpaid housekeepers and in production and as shop workers. We have all a responsibility for this....

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Bob Geldof grew up listening to the radio on the outskirts of Dublin, where his loneliness and resentment of prescribed drudgery manifested itself in an all-consuming desire to escape. It was an almost quintessential rock-star story — rebellion, tran...

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The Boomtown Rats Live in Japan, Tokyo 1980...

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