Bonus: Bob Geldof Talks About Convincing Freddie Mercury To Do Live Aid

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Please welcome to the show, Bob Geldof, Hell, Bob Geldof, Good morning, a boarding guys.

Hey, welcome to Melbourne, Thanks very much.

Have you partied since you've been here? Have you been enjoying it?

Went to the Cup?

Yeah, yeap, went to see a show you got, taken her to dinner?

All good, yep, And I'm out of here.

As soon as I've done with you, guys, it's enough.

So it's been busy because I have seen you everywhere, Sir Bob. You you are a busy man.

I know when you're last you went. I could have done with that.

Hey, what about the luck of the hours?

The Melbourne Cup?

Tell me about it? Person.

Did you bet on that Irish jockey?

No? I bet on Night's Choice because.

He's been knighted, That's why not because of the Irish.

Jockey I did.

There were ten Irish horses, so I had to. I just picked one. But the guy who won is a great thing. I think he won the voice.

He just sung with Ronan Keaty yesterday.

Roland's going to race in the last They've done a job.

So I asked stupid question, when you is that the sword job?

Yeah? You is? He queen?

Yeah? I watched King Ralph the other day when they clipped the ear great movie? Was there any Was there any story.

Movies you watch to inform your lists? Well, it was a dock in preparation for you. Were you worried about the ear clip back in the day or was she quite good with the sword?

She?

What in terms of snapping night?

Yeah, it's it's heavy and it sort of falls weightly on your shoulders, so you truly understand you're receiving something of gravitas.

Yes, that's happened.

First, Google, just go everywhere. Does it go on the boarding pass for instance? Uh, it's screaming it useful?

It's on the driving license dude, and I can show it to you here.

And also when the restaurant's full, when you bought the Chiefest Economy ticket.

Did they bump you up the front to get you know?

It sometimes works to the wallet?

Could you give me a credit card while you're there?

What's there? It is?

Put out your license from just.

To prove it, just to prove that it works, so that.

While it looks like it's traveled the world with you a few times.

Your photo on your license more like parole shop.

Don't ask about that one, reckon, it's not bad.

Oh my gosh, sir Robert Frederic Geldoff, I left.

Out the Xenon. That's my foot.

Can you imagine being in school and they call it your full name?

What is it?

My third name is Xenyl Zeno. Yes, my father thought it'd be hilarious to name me.

After and the nerd gas Robin and Frederick Xenon Geldof, Yeah, what a I know?

And my grandson is called Xenol. My father was my grandfather. This is one of the great girld Of traditions down through the centuries. You know, I'm passing it on to you now.

There you go.

I don't think we're smart enough to have that name in any of our children's names.

We're ra only talking about you in our house. The other day, I got three young boys under ten, and you were watching the Bohemian Rhapsody movie and the live AID concert came on, and I was just giving the boys, you know, a rundown of what it was all about. Mate, Congratulations, you've done some extraordinary things in your life.

What are you nice proud of?

So serious question, proper answer.

The pride thing. It doesn't happen in me at all. You know, to how you're proud of your kids. It doesn't work like that. If they do something cool, like you know, I'm happy and I'm happy for them. But stuff that is a great record, getting to number one, stuff like that, it's just onto the next thing. That's what happens. There's a momentary pause where you go, good, did that that worked? That's what happens next thing. So and it's a lack. It's a lacking because I think

Do they know? It's Christmas?

And then you and Lay for Africa and then and then the fortieth anniversary of Live in the fiftieth anniversary of the Boomtown Rats. So you know, I've been around. It is a big year, and exactly to that point. So Assi has called me and said, you're going to need a break from all this stuff, come down here

And I'm in sort of that camp.

And I thought, actually, you know what winter or well spring anyway, March April, come down to Oz and I spent a couple of weeks here and go back and then have a fresh mind. You know, so stories, fun and questionsilms, movies such I Haven't seen.

You Amazing so not in eighty five.

Such an important historical marker is is the world dramatically a bit of place?

Not since the day before yesterday when he terrified. I'm I'm so sad and alarmed.

By talking about trump presidency for the.

World, and I think it will be all about them. I think the rest of us, like Britain, is basically protecting their eastern flank and also protects their western flank, and that's the only use Trump would have for us guys. But people thought that the man is a fool and a dangerous fool, and he's been surrounded by, you know, billionaires who believe the world should work to their benefit according to them. So I think it's a very very

He's just a movie being full.

You know, were you expecting it?

Well, okay, I was.

I was saying, yes, I was saying it's Trump because all the energy was running his way. And what I wasn't expecting was them to win the House and the centers, and so it's it's look for all of us who think a certain way, who've got a view of the world. Certainly in my life I'm old now that the sort of old post war consensus of social democracy that we redistribute wealth and we bring as many boats up as we can along with us, and that prevents revolution and

As a global community, do we care enough or have we become far too selfish?

So your your your original question is since eighty five of things improved absolutely globalization, which got a bad present, which in fact, the rejection of Trump is an avatar of globalization, is a function of the technology that we're all using now and having pop And within the first ten years of our century, four hundred million people were pulled out of extreme poverty. That's extraordinary, and it would have continued. So starvation figures, hunger figures have plummeted since

It really is.

You know, if people are rich enough to trade with us, produce stuff, they buy our stuff, we buy theirs. It's pretty simple, but it's not something necessarily that are cantilists like Trump understands. It's always the deal. He's never done a good deal in the man's life. He's a bankrupt Have you ever met it, Yeah, I met him that he was sort of.

When he was a developer in the eighties, you.

Know, a good it was the orange then, or he just said he.

Was a good looking guy. Actually, you know, but.

You go to wherever the dew was, you see it as flattened. Well, I went once and no idea who the head I was, you know or whatever. He just you just said, just welcome and you shook hands and you were.

At the party.

But it was all the faces of that time, you know, and he was making sure they all came to him. I don't think he had political ambitions. I think they arrived with popularity with the Apprentice.

You know, you've done some amazing things in your time, and I know you'll obviously tell a lot of those stories quite humbly on your tour.

No, not humbly.

I don't do pride, I don't do humility.

But who was some like you did so much of it through music and through the music industry.

Who are some of.

Those musicians and bands and entertainers now who you look at and think, well, they are doing great things for the world.

Because I think that, I don't think you need to.

I mean, I'm sure you guys, because you do this show and your your your personality face, you get asked to do stuff, and I don't think it's that's part art of the job of being a musician. The only job of the artist is to create good art. They failed when they create bad art, that's it. The rest is up to the person. What view did they take on things.

My view was.

That when the Rats had the number one records on the stadiums and all that stuff, my take on that was that famous occurrency and like any currency, it depends on how wisely you spend it. And at the very beginning the first ever interview I did, I was moaning about pop and if you, if you really, you talked of the Queen movie. If you really want to understand why punk came about, it's because of one word queen.

You know.

It was to do with like the length of their limousine, the height of their hair, the platform of the big house.

And we rejected that.

And so I was moaning about that, and the journalist said, well, what do you want to get out of this? And I said three things. I want to get rich, I want to get famous, and I want to get laid. And you know, if you come from a yeah, done it all, mate.

And it's a lot better than previously.

So and you know, the riches, the rich and late bodies is self evident. But the fame thing I actually said, I've checked it is I want to use the platform it gives me to talk about the things that bother me and I have, so that that's me and I really don't put that on others. So for example, when we were putting together Live Aid and some of the bands have broken up, like the Who, Pete, Townsend Rogers didn't like each other, so I to beg Pete to

Irresponsible for Oasis getting back together.

No, but honestly, what's it?

I literally was texting Noel on the car over here, you know, because we have this text bro relationship sort of thing, and they're a great bad and they would not do something like this.

It's not their thing. And what's it. Nole's really clever guy.

I mean properly so, but like, no, it's not what they do, it's not what that's somewhere he is.

He doesn't believe it achieves anything.

But even if you did believe in Chief d anything, if you don't want to do it, that's completely fine.

Queen, you know, were.

Very difficult because I told this story, but it's true. They'd come to the end of a world tour. They were in Oz. Harvey Goldsmith, the promoter in London, said you got to get Queen. I said, why, it's kind of a bit done with Queen, isn't it. And why Harvey wanted them because he wanted to do their next tour. Roger, the drummer is against name drop stuff, a really good friend.

I hang with him and I.

Called, can you add us to these group chats? I don't like it.

I called called Roger in Australia and they said, oh man, you know, we know what's going on. It's amazing, but we're a bit tired. The tour had not gone great and Freddie was about to go and make a solo album, which is kind of the death knell for a banister. Side of signal, and he said, but speak to Jim, the manager, Jim Beach.

So I spoke to him.

I didn't like speaking to managers because they're the fault position is no, that's first. Then the lawyer said no, So I just spoke to the guys and Jim said, oh, Bob, you know, like we're really tired. Fred's gone big things. I said, I know, I know Roger told me. He said, well, let me put it to Fred. So two days later, the phone call and I said, Bobsy, you know, I said, oh, hi, Fred, you know, and he said, well, what's all this about, Darling? You know?

He said, it's wonderful what you're doing. It's so mediot, you know.

And I said, well, I don't know. And I didn't care if they did this or not. You know, I really didn't. I didn't think we had that, we had every band that ever existed, probably, and and I wasn't going to push.

Him put the moral arm lock on him.

You've got to do it if you Yeah, I did that with Pete Town's I do with the budget. So so I don't know, Bobby, like, you know, I'm thinking of making my own record.

I said, yeah.

Jim told me, and he said, and he was talking himself out of doing this, and then there was a silence, and I just couldn't care listen. I said that the only thing that popped into my mind was, well, look, Fred, if ever there was a stage built for you, this is it.

And he said, what do you mean you know?

And I said, well, darling the world And there was this silence and he said, yes, I think I know where you're coming from.

And that was it. The next minute they pitch up and they do this genius.

Incredible hearing it thought the phone call was yesterday.

Yeah, So so as you know, that's it. As I say, it's part of a mad life. I'm not sure I understand it myself, but there you go.

There the stories that people are going to be hanging for an evening with Bob Goldoff songs and stories from an extraordinary life coming.

Towards changed the name.

Forget songs and the Stories of an Extraordinary life take today.

It's what's a life? W TF?

Right?

Is that really?

What?

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I couldn't agree more.

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Yeah. Related to somebody on our team. Yes, got headphones. Headphones, parish producer. You're all related, aren't you, he might, Yeah, is this your granddad? Close?

Turns out Sir Bob and I are from about thirty seconds from each other.

I live in a place at home called Sally Noggan, but Glenna.

Gear Salty Noggan. Hang on one of the three you wanted fame, money and to get neighbors. There's a good chance you might know just as.

Mum, none of those things. This is called austrated you. You know, this is why you're going home sooner.

I take it now, he said, Producages said, he told you the town he's from, And what did you say about the town?

It was? It is a ship.

It's at the top of the hill.

I'm in the posh part.

The people up in the knock and the sady knocking, and the people up in the knock and scared the crap out of me. We used to long before he was born, as you've kindly pointed out to everyone, but we used to have a record shop. That the hill has two tastes to come down, the big slopey bit, a flat bit down, another bit down the end was this very cool record shop, which saved my life when.

I was a kid.

But they had a basement which was painted black with the best juke box in the world down there. So we hung there after school and the girls came in from the convent and everybody hung. But there was a couple of guys from the knock and there Smiley Bulger. You're not related your the second name is in Bulger

He just looked at you like that walking hand. What's good?

And he said, and he goes and he nodded me and go, he's it going, Robert, And I'd say, he very nice, Mary, and I run up that hill, running.

Up the hill. Yeah. But he followed me home one night and that wasn't fun.

Wow, the end of that I.

Went to it. He was all right.

He was just another lost boy in the Ireland.

Joined morning smile.

He's here too, You lucky, said.

Bob, thanks so much for joining MIN. It's been absolutely trick.

Cheers guys, Lauren like I'd feeling good.

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