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“... person’ (especially in his 1980 Dewey Lectures*). The recent emergence of the so-called ‘Bob Geldof phenomenon’ is a matter of some relevance for these arguments. Of course, the primary importance of this phenomenon lies in the substantial funds that these efforts have been generating. The Live Aid concert last summer produced a stunning $70 ...”

“... word’. This appears to be the brainchild (if that’s the word we’re looking for) of Sir Bob Geldof, whose own favourite word, it’s not wholly surprising to find out, is ‘f**k’, a choice that poses, if without answering, the question whether a verbal sign that contains two asterisks counts as a word of the language or not. Sir ...”

“... decline the invitation. Does this have anything to do with Blair’s Commission on Africa, G8, Bob Geldof and all that? Well, yes it does. Mbeki, an honoured guest at G8, is the chief link. These crimes against humanity wouldn’t be possible without his active support for Mugabe. It is also because Mbeki has insisted on keeping Zimbabwe on the UN ...”

“... pastoral exodus as well – nurses, for example. There is a sense in which the Dubliners Bono and Bob Geldof are self-advertising versions of Irish missionaries. The English and Scottish Catholic churches have always relied heavily on Irish priests to minister to parishioners who were themselves perhaps only a generation or two away from the farm in Mayo ...”

“... the king of Ethiopia. He is everywhere. Every news broadcast, every song in the whole world. Bob Geldof. Wherever he is people fall, twist, writhe, lose language skills, accumulate insects around their eyes, and then die on BBC. The anger here is counterbalanced by Wainaina’s mature realisation that his response is also occasionally conditioned ...”

“... them a chance, even do them a favour. Paula Yates rings him up when her divorce settlement with Bob Geldof is going badly. ‘I’m going to walk the kids home from school today in the rain because I can’t afford a taxi. If you take some pictures, then Bob might feel shamed into helping me properly.’ Morgan’s ...”

“... notably in a fine essay on the ghosts of the Munich Zepplinsfeld. A fascinating study of Bob Geldof ends with a silly-cynical bromide I’ll bet Mr James wouldn’t repeat to Mother Teresa, and a clutch of essays on notable Englishwomen of our time (they are also English women, but somehow the compound form of the word seems requisite) comes out ...”

“... just cut her hair short and was wearing a green Halston trouser suit.’) Next on the list are Bob Geldof and Paula Yates: According to Alan [Parker], Bob had a cock so big that he needed a wheelbarrow to carry it around in . . . But one didn’t need to have coffee with Alan Parker to know that ...”

“... Forget Bob Geldof, Bono and the other do-gooders, Genoa’s only significance was as the latest battle in the war of Neoliberalism. It was a clear victory this time for the ‘anarchists’. Damaging property and street fighting proved the most effective forms of protest, and provoked an over-reaction from the police: they shot a man armed with a fire extinguisher and raided the headquarters of the Genoa Social Forum for no reason ...”

“... fifty Tebbits to invest capitalism with glamour and a sense of opportunity. On the other hand, Bob Geldof has perhaps done more in a year to make ‘compassion’ fashionable than any Labour leader has managed in twenty. The complex and shifting interactions of pleasure and ideology, performers and spectators, regional accents and metropolitan ...”

“... it creates fear and scandal. Underlying all this is the sexual regime ushered in by Aids. This is Bob Geldof, speaking at the International Aids Day concert at Wembley Arena in April 1987: It’s critical to influence people who are just beginning to grope their way into their own sexuality and to rid them of the notions that my generation imbued them ...”