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Bob and Geldof
* October 5 – Bob Geldof, Irish musician ( The Boomtown Rats )
The show's organiser, Bob Geldof, other musicians such as Elton John and Dave Grohl, and various music journalists commented that Queen stole the show.
This prompted the Band Aid single, which was organized by Bob Geldof and featured more than 20 pop stars.
The band and chorus included Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, all of whom except Beck later worked together on Live Aid.
Sting also led an impromptu super-group of other musicians ( dubbed The Secret Police ) performing at the show including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Donovan, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in the show's grand finale – Sting's own reggae-tinged arrangement of Bob Dylan's I Shall Be Released.
Haworth and Haworth railway station have been used as settings for numerous period films and TV series, including The Railway Children ( starring Jenny Agutter ), Yanks ( starring Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave ), and Alan Parker's film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall ( starring Bob Geldof ).
It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-poverty efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song " Do They Know It's Christmas?
The original 1984 Feed The World logo was based on a pencil sketch by Bob Geldof after watching a BBC television news report by Michael Buerk from famine-stricken Ethiopia.
* Bob Geldof ( The Boomtown Rats, subsequently USA for Africa )
On Friday 1 December 1989, Bob Geldof called Pete Waterman to ask if he would consider producing a new version of the song featuring the big stars from that time.
Present in the studio was Bob Geldof, wife Paula Yates and six-year-old daughter, Fifi Trixiebelle, who was eager to meet Jason Donovan.
The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine.
An official book was produced by Bob Geldof in collaboration with photographer Denis O ' Regan.
Bob Geldof himself performed with the rest of the Boomtown Rats, singing " I Don't Like Mondays ".
As a result, organiser and performer Bob Geldof, accompanied by earlier performers David Bowie, Alison Moyet, and Pete Townshend, returned to the stage to sing with him and back him up ( as did the stadium audience despite not being able to hear much ), by which time, Paul's microphone had been repaired.
At the conclusion of the Wembley performances, Bob Geldof was raised heroically onto the shoulders of The Who's guitarist Pete Townshend and Paul McCartney – symbolising his great achievement in unifying the world for one day, in the spirit of music and charity.
Nearly seven hours into the concert in London, Bob Geldof enquired how much money had been raised ; he was told £ 1. 2 million.
Regarding Tears for Fears ' absence, band member Roland Orzabal remarked that Bob Geldof " gave us so much gip for not turning up at Live Aid.
Bob Geldof also invited Def Leppard to perform at the event, but due to Rick Allen's car accident and uncertain future of the next album, they turned it down.
" ( W 21: 48 ), b ) Paul McCartney – " Let It Be " ( W 21: 51 ), c ) Band Aid ( led by Bob Geldof ) – " Do They Know It's Christmas?
When organiser Bob Geldof was persuading artists to take part in the concert, he promised them that it would be a one-off event, never to be seen again.
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 ).
During production on the official DVD, MTV lent Woodcharm Ltd. their B-roll and alternate camera footage where MTV provided extra footage of the Philadelphia concert ( where ABC had erased the tapes from the command of Bob Geldof ), and those songs that were not littered with ads were used on the official DVD.

Bob and saw
The last time I saw Bird, at Jimbo's Bob City, he was so gone -- so blind to the world -- that he literally sat down on me before he realized I was there.
As they held the Ashes, Australian captains Bob Simpson and Bill Lawry were happy to adopt safety-first tactics and their strategy of sedate batting saw many draws.
Gardner would rarely see Harold, who went on to study Law at the University of Oxford, but saw more of Bob, who drew pictures for him, and Douglas, with whom he shared his nursery.
Bob Kohler, who was walking his dog by the Stonewall that night, saw the TPF arrive: " I had been in enough riots to know the fun was over ....
Additional details of the hoax include the rediscovery of Udo's works by the also-fictional Bob Schipke, a Harvard mathematician, who supposedly saw a picture of the Mandelbrot set in an illumination for a 13th century carol.
As a simple example, if Alice saw Bob trip over a rock and fall, Alice might consider Bob to be clumsy or careless ( dispositional ).
More instrumental and funk and R & B themed than recent releases, The Black Album also saw Prince experiment with hip hop music on the songs " Bob George " and " Dead on It.
According to SubGenius dogma, " Bob " was a drilling equipment salesman who, in 1953, saw a vision of God ( JHVH-1 according to Church scriptures ) on a television set he had built himself.
Note that the verb " see " can often be used instead of " call ": " Bob saw Carol's bet ", although the latter can also be used with the bettor as the object: " I'll see you " means ' I will call your bet '.
The conflict between what Bob had become, and what he saw himself as, led him to be impulsively inclined to follow the lead set by the more headstrong Terry ( especially after a heavy drinking session ), who led them recklessly into one scrape after another.
There were no male influences in either Bob or Terry's life: neither Bob's father nor Terry's ever appeared and on the few occasions that we saw Thelma's father he was usually being henpecked by either Thelma or her mother.
By 1992, however, the Evening News had fallen to third place, where it remained until Bob Schieffer, who acted as the interim anchor between Rather and Katie Couric, saw the Evening News rise to # 2 ahead of ABC World News Tonight in the wake of the death of Peter Jennings but remaining behind NBC Nightly News.
As described by Barcan, this period saw the emergence of mainstream talents like poets Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann, journalists David Solomon, Mungo MacCallum ( Jnr ) and Laurie Oakes, Oz magazine satirists Richard Neville, Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp, and maverick writer Bob Ellis.
At Wilson's funeral on 10 May 1990, Reynolds saw Roy James ( who got into a verbal argument with the press ), Buster Edwards, Bob Welch ( hobbling on crutches ) and Jimmy White ( who went unnoticed most due to his ability to blend into the background ).
At Edward's funeral in 1994, Reynolds only saw Bob Welch there, with Hussey, Wisbey and James all in prison.
The Isle of Wight festival saw the return of Bob Dylan to live music after his motorbike accident in 1966.
After his fourth release, Haggard saw Lefty Frizzell in concert with his friend, Bob Teague.
Following the end of the Cold War, Minister of Defence Bob Tizard's term of office saw the RNZAF begin to consolidate its facilities.
In 1984, California, pastor Bob Beeman saw this problem and soon started the ministry called Sanctuary-The Rock and Roll Refuge.
As a simple example, if Alice saw Bob trip over a rock and fall, Alice might consider Bob to be clumsy or careless ( dispositional ).
According to Bob Geldof's autobiography, Is That It ?, Cott had grown disillusioned with what he saw as the band's growing laziness in the studio and their apparent relinquishing of their early R ' n ' B influences for " cod-reggae ".
By 1980 the decision to replace was once again imminent however the form of Alan Jones in Formula One saw entrepreneur Bob Jane seize an opportunity to bring Formula One back as the Grand Prix Formula.

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