Bob Geldof

Does Sting Really Have 24-Hour Tantric Sex Sessions?

Spinner | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: The Police, Sting Sex, Sting Tantric Sex, String Rumours, Sting All Day Sex, Trudie Styler, Sting, Spinner, Bob Geldof, Home News

21 years ago, songwriter Bob Geldof and Sting started a long-running belief that the Police frontman could last a whole day in the sack. During an eve...

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2011 Year-End Video Performance Review

Michael Vazquez | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: 285 Kent, Capybara, Gil Scott-Heron, Eminem, The Strokes, Bootsy Collins, Anna Calvi, Michael Madsen, Le Poisson Rouge, Hanson, Daniel Stedman, Into Eternity, Prince Rama, Michael Vazquez, 2011, Ashley Capps, Beak, Marian Godell, Mohawk's, Austin, Bonnaroo, Inyang Bassey & Moby, Bowery Ballroom, Sxsw, Rayland Baxter, Escape2ny, Quincey Jones, Bob Geldof, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Todd Rundgren, New York Film Festival, Smokey Robinson, Bruce Springsteen, Martin Scorsese, Upton Sinclair, Festivals, Florence and the Machine, Echo & the Bunnymen, Johnny Marr, John Lydon, Public Enemy, Johnny Rotton, Johnny Rotten, Year-End-Video, Lynton Kwesi Johnson, Throbbing Gristle, Genesis P. Orridge, Video, Entertainment News

This is not a year-end list -- the headline says it all -- herewith, two dozen filmed performances.

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Glee Teaches Bob Geldof a Lesson in Charity Work

James Sims | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Glee, Ryan Murphy, Band Aid, Bob Geldof, Broadway League, Broadway, Do They Know It's Christmas, Fox, Bono, Video, Entertainment News

Watching this week's episode of "Glee" and seeing its rendition of the classic '80s charity song, "Do They Know It's Christmas," brought to mind the debacle that was Bob Geldof's last attempt at re-creating his Band Aid group.

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Glee Gives Away 100% Of Proceeds From Christmas Song Remake

Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Glee Charity, Band Aid Charity Trust, Glee, Sting, Holidays, Video, Charity, Do They Know It's Christmas, One, Bob Geldof, Red, Glee Cast, Bono, Midge Ure, Impact News

While the Glee cast has remade the 1984, "Do They Know It’s Christmas?" the stars are keeping the song’s original purpose intact -- to raise money...

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Speech by Bob Geldof Inspires Instant Activism at One Young World

Kathleen Hale | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Ajarat Bada, South Africa, Demonstrations, One Young Newsroom, Wake Up Call, One Young World, Michael Teoh, Activism, Parker Liautaud, Protest, Zurich, Erin Schrode, Bob Geldof, Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Video, Impact News

According to Bob Gedolf, as one grows closer to one's own end, one also grows more impatient for younger generations to take a stand.

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African Famine, Wall Street and All of Us

Richard Walden | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Drought, Relief, Ethiopia, East Africa Famine, Ngos, Do They Know It's Christmas, Lionel Richie, Operation USA, Bob Geldof, We Are the World, Quincy Jones, Operation California, Impact News

It's more than a bit disconcerting to look at the low level of the African famine relief response -- especially when you've been around long enough to remember the 1984 Ethiopian famine and its massive tug on the hearts of the world.

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Israeli University To Honor Bob Geldof

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bob Geldof Live Aid, Bob Geldof Ben-Gurion University, Bob Geldof, Ben-Gurion University, College News

JERUSALEM — Bob Geldof is being awarded an honorary doctorate from an Israeli university for his work to end hunger in Africa and raise awarenes...

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PLAY > SKIP: This Week's New Music

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Travis Barker, New Music, Miranda Cosgrove, Album Reviews, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Bob Geldof, Steve Martin, Entertainment News

It's time to start your spring break mix tape. You do like that kind of thing, don't you? Read on for your musical cheat sheet.

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Cote D'Ivoire, Celebrities and Aid

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nyu, Bill Easterly, International Development, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Democracy, Aid, Elections, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Development, Un, Bob Geldof, International Aid, Advocacy, Bono, Cote D'Ivoire, Impact News

Now is the perfect time for Bono, Clooney, Jolie and company to step up and speak out against the stolen election and human rights abuses in Cote D'Ivoire.

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Bob Geldof and the Food Riots in Mozambique

Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Security, Justice, Africa, Violence, Financial TImes, Bread Riots, Development, Bob Geldof, Mozambique, Conflict and Development, World News

As the riots in Mozambique demonstrate, growth, as a proxy for rising economic opportunity, is all very well. But economic development, especially if it is relatively job-poor, as in Mozambique, is not enough on its own.

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A Girl Talks to Rob Sheffield about Duran Duran (and His New Book)

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011

In his brilliant new coming-of-age-in-the-1980s memoir, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield calls 1985 "the year of the awesomeness drought."

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Lessons from Legends at One Young World

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copenhagen Climate Talks, Alejandro Toledo, Live Aid, John Kerry, Davos, One Young World Summit, Bob Geldof, Desmond Tutu, Muhammad Yunus, David Jones, Boris Johnson, Home News

The inaugural One Young World summit under way this week in London is a next-generation Davos: a gathering of hundreds of future leaders from the worl...

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Social Media Emerges as Community Glue

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Twitter, Social Web, One Young World Summit, Youtube, Desmond Tutu, Bob Geldof, Facebook, Muhammad Yunus, David Jones, Media News

This is the Real-Time Generation: Young adults born after 1980 never knew a world without the Internet, without instant communications with people all over the world.

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Youth Will be Served - One Young World Summit in London Seizes on Social Media

Mario Almonte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Oscar Morales, Twitter, Copenhagen 2009, Social Networking, United Nations, Kofi Annan, Cause Marketing, Kate Robertson, Facebook, Young Global Leader, Barack Obama, Muhammad Yunus, Campaign for Climate Justice, Social Media, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Davos, One Young World, Lauren Bush, Prince Haakon, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Youtube, David Jones, Farc, Financial TImes, David Cameron, Bob Geldof, Martin Davidson, Global Warming, World Economic Forum, Impact News

The physical act of voting has become almost irrelevant in an age when a single voice in the wilderness can log on to Facebook and raise an army of 400,000 strong.

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AC/DC's Brian Johnson: Bono Should Do Charity Work In Private

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Live Aid, Bob Geldof, Brian Johnson, Poll, Bono Charity, Music, Bono, Entertainment News

AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson is taking on Bono and Bob Geldof for their public displays of charity work. "When I was a working man I didn't want to ...

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Davos and Our Future Leaders

David R. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Oscar Morales, Davos 2010, Davos, One Young World Summit, Samsung, Burberry, Kofi Annan, Air Asia, Hewlett-Packard, Desmond Tutu, Kpmg, Muhammad Yunus, Euro Rscg, American Express, One Young World, John Kerry, Haiti, Starbucks, Bob Geldof, Allianz, World News

So we're now in the thick of Davos but the dominating conversation remains that of the regulation of the financial services industry. I'd never actual...

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The Power of One Young World

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Euro Rscg, Youth, Davos, One Young World Summit, One-Young-World, Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Bob Geldof, Muhammad Yunus, World Economic Forum, World News

Every generation assumes it has been handed the world's problems because the one that preceded it didn't quite master the agenda. In the rebellious 19...

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25 Years After Band Aid, Diminished Foreign Aid and Drought Threaten Ethiopia's Food Security

Chloe Malle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Band Aid, Ethiopia, Kenya, Bob Geldof, United Nations, Famine, G-8, East Africa, Somalia, World Food Programme, Meles-Zenawi, Jean Ping, World News

International aid agencies predict this winter may bring the worst food crisis to Ethiopia since the infamous famine of 1984-85.

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Sting's Daughter: My Dad Knows Nothing About Tantric Sex

nydailynews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sting Tantric Sex Rumor, Trudie-Styler, Sting, Coco Sumner, Sting Tantric Sex, Bob Geldof, Spiritual Sex, Entertainment News

If you've ever envied Sting's sex life, you can stop right now. According to the singer's daughter, her dad knows squat about Tantric sex! Coco Sum...

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Celebrity Spawn Who Model: How Much Do They Resemble Their Parents? (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

Huffington Post | Emily Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Melanie Griffith, Pixie Geldof, Emma Roberts, Carine Roitfeld, Mick Jagger, Patti Hansen, Slidepoll, Eric Roberts, Danielle Riley Keough, Dree Hemingway, Theodora Richards, Lisa Marie Presley, Peaches Geldof, Bob Geldof, Don Johnson, Simon Le Bon, Jerry Hall, Alexandra Richards, Jane Birkin, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, Ernest Hemingway, Gavin Rossdale, Lisa Bonet, Mariel Hemingway, Ming Lee Simmons, Georgia Jagger, Zoe Kravitz, Kimora Lee Simmons, Celebrity Kids, Keith Richards, Dakota Johnson, Lenny Kravitz, Julia Roberts, Daisy Lowe, Aoki Lee Simmons, Amber Le Bon, Lou Doillon, Style News

On the whole, celebrities are pretty good-looking people, so it makes sense that a lot of their kids would end up in modeling. See the slideshow below...

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And Now For Something Completely Different: The Secret Policeman's Film Festival

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Donovan, The Who, Neil Innes, John Cleese, Bob Geldof, Bill Graham, The Secret Policeman's Ball, Bono, Pete Townshend, Jack Healey, Monty Python, Entertainment News

With the steady stream of elaborately produced, consciousness-raising concerts, The Secret Policeman's Ball is a symbol that anything is possible when you're trying to do the right thing for the planet.

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Bono Aid Group: Italy Fails Africa In Humanitarian Aid

AP | RAPHAEL SATTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Africa Aid, Silvio Berlusconi, Foreign Affairs, G-8, G8, Africa, Bill Gates, Italy, Italy Africa Aid, Desmond Tutu, Bob Geldof, Advocacy, Bono, World News

LONDON - Italy has failed to meet its commitments to reduce poverty in Africa and has lost credibility in its relationship with the region, an aid gro...

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Smile and Say "Cleese!" - How the Secret Policeman Mocks, Rocks and Shocks

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rowan Atkinson, Peter Cook, Live Aid, Sting, John Cleese, Billy Connolly, Michael Palin, Bob Geldof, Monty Python, Amnesty International, Martin Lewis, Secret Policeman?S Ball, Home News

Long ago on a smallish, awkwardly-shaped but somewhat culturally-significant island in the dismal North Sea, Peter Cook hosted a spoof awards show to anyone who featured in the 1981 Amnesty benefit show.

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Simon Berry Live From G-20: Bob Geldof On Condoms, The Pope And ColaLife Gel (VIDEO)

G20Voice | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Simon Berry, Bob-Geldof, g20, Condoms, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, g20voice, Video, World News

Thanks to Nick Booth's podnosh journalistic instincts, I was able to get in front of Bob Geldof and, rather nervously, explain the ColaLife campaign to him.

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The 10 Least Appropriate Moments in Christmas Music History

Jason Notte | Posted 05.25.2011

These 10 [songs] show just how much of a jerk you can be around the holidays without anyone giving you hell for it.

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