He believes that Africa will soon become a super power.
Poverty and biased journalism tick him off.
Rock and roll is his way of reaching out to people.
Yes, he could be one strange man, but Bob Geldof is not going to be someone else just to please anyone.
We best know him as the lead vocalist of The Boomtown Rats who turned into an activist upon learning of Africa's insane debts and poverty issues.
To try to understand Bob, we must be prepared to strip ourselves of any tendencies of typecasting and interpret his actions at face value.
Bob simply does what he thinks is right, and how he does it is none of our business.
As long as he delivers and keeps aids coming from all over the world to help Africa become habitable, then we have no right to judge him for what and who he is.
By the looks of it, he does not give his reputation much of a lift.
He helps people all right, and on a large scale at that, but he does not behave on TV like someone capable of doing humanitarian work.
Again, with Bob Geldof, typecasting just doesn't work.
So what's in it for Bob? Does he get a kick out of mobilizing first-world countries to do something about Africa? Will it make him any richer if he does? How much more fame could it afford him? By now, maybe it's safe to assume that Bob is motivated by sheer compassion.
He knows what it's like to have everything money could buy, so he ironically identifies with people who do not have anything to buy a morsel of bread with.
Call it paradox, whatever.
It drives him mad just thinking how some people could have so much at the expense of others having so little, or worse, having nothing at all.
Bob may not be the most ideal hero as far as our Justice League-obsessed generation is concerned.
He is incapable of being tactful and diplomatic.
Authority is not something he acknowledges.
Disliking him is not as hard to do as liking him.
Plus, isn't charity a weird vocation for a rock star? For Bob to go out of his way and deal with politicians for the sake of others not even of his own nationality is more than enough reason for us to set aside his brusque behavior and look at the other side of the famous rock star-the side where we see more of his tender character-then it would be easier to forgive him for his imperfection.
Band Aid, a non-government organization Bob co-founded with Midge Ure, is only one of the many charity groups that enthusiastically raise funds for the benefit of Ethiopia.
He may not look like it, but Bob Geldof has a heart of a hero.
This may not sit well with him but his work in changing the lives of millions of people is not for someone with no heroic qualities.
Queen Elizabeth II had good reasons for knighting him in 1985 in as much as the Nobel Peace Prize organizers knew of his efforts well enough to acknowledge him as a potential laureate not only once but twice.
Between his reputation and Africa, Bob Geldof would surely do whatever he could to save the latter.
To hell with reputation!
Poverty and biased journalism tick him off.
Rock and roll is his way of reaching out to people.
Yes, he could be one strange man, but Bob Geldof is not going to be someone else just to please anyone.
We best know him as the lead vocalist of The Boomtown Rats who turned into an activist upon learning of Africa's insane debts and poverty issues.
To try to understand Bob, we must be prepared to strip ourselves of any tendencies of typecasting and interpret his actions at face value.
Bob simply does what he thinks is right, and how he does it is none of our business.
As long as he delivers and keeps aids coming from all over the world to help Africa become habitable, then we have no right to judge him for what and who he is.
By the looks of it, he does not give his reputation much of a lift.
He helps people all right, and on a large scale at that, but he does not behave on TV like someone capable of doing humanitarian work.
Again, with Bob Geldof, typecasting just doesn't work.
So what's in it for Bob? Does he get a kick out of mobilizing first-world countries to do something about Africa? Will it make him any richer if he does? How much more fame could it afford him? By now, maybe it's safe to assume that Bob is motivated by sheer compassion.
He knows what it's like to have everything money could buy, so he ironically identifies with people who do not have anything to buy a morsel of bread with.
Call it paradox, whatever.
It drives him mad just thinking how some people could have so much at the expense of others having so little, or worse, having nothing at all.
Bob may not be the most ideal hero as far as our Justice League-obsessed generation is concerned.
He is incapable of being tactful and diplomatic.
Authority is not something he acknowledges.
Disliking him is not as hard to do as liking him.
Plus, isn't charity a weird vocation for a rock star? For Bob to go out of his way and deal with politicians for the sake of others not even of his own nationality is more than enough reason for us to set aside his brusque behavior and look at the other side of the famous rock star-the side where we see more of his tender character-then it would be easier to forgive him for his imperfection.
Band Aid, a non-government organization Bob co-founded with Midge Ure, is only one of the many charity groups that enthusiastically raise funds for the benefit of Ethiopia.
He may not look like it, but Bob Geldof has a heart of a hero.
This may not sit well with him but his work in changing the lives of millions of people is not for someone with no heroic qualities.
Queen Elizabeth II had good reasons for knighting him in 1985 in as much as the Nobel Peace Prize organizers knew of his efforts well enough to acknowledge him as a potential laureate not only once but twice.
Between his reputation and Africa, Bob Geldof would surely do whatever he could to save the latter.
To hell with reputation!
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