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...drag on." He vows that Sport Aid will be his last major fund-raising effort. Now, he feels, "I have to concentrate on making a living. I have to remove myself and distance myself and start to think in a musical frame of mind." He and his band, the Boomtown Rats, have just completed a mini-tour of Italy. Geldof will use his share of the proceeds to pay off some accumulated debts and replenish savings depleted by his worldwide drumbeating. "We don't take any administrative costs on Band Aid and Live Aid," he reminds everyone. "My phone bill...
...attention, slow on detail work and chary of bailing out other agencies. "I'm not an accountant," huffs Geldof, who is nevertheless adept at running down stats, from the average number of berries constituting the daily diet of a starving Sudanese (eight) to the number of Live Aid and Band Aid trucks ferrying supplies across Africa (200) to the varieties of relief (medicine, bridges, powdered milk) purchased by Live...
...Harvard Medical School." Instead, he speaks through a remarkable series of interviews ("It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin . . . The first thing I needed was extraordinary breath control"), documents and anecdotes. Accompanying photographs range from the Big Band and bobby-sox eras to the film comeback in the mid-'50s, the "Only the Lonely" albums and a restive retirement. On the trajectory, four marriages and innumerable crises leave indelible marks on the face and style. At one taping he finally berates himself--"Drink, drink, drink. Smoke, smoke, smoke. Schmuck...
...works speak for themselves. Over the past twelve years Abu Nidal has molded his organization, known as the Fatah Revolutionary Council, into a fanatical, amorphously structured terrorist band with between 200 and 500 adherents. They have been blamed for more than 100 terrorist attacks. In June 1982, members of Abu Nidal's group shot and gravely wounded Israeli Ambassador to Britain Shlomo Argov, an assault that helped spark the Israeli invasion of Lebanon...
...bottom." Her grandmother put on earplugs when she sang. Hardly the way to treat a lady. Unless she happens to be Lady (Helen) Teresa Margaret Manners, 23, daughter of Charles John Robert Manners, the tenth Duke of Rutland, and lead singer of the British aristo-rock band, the Business Connection. Despite the group's white-collar name, Lady Teresa's connections are strictly blue blood. Her father owns Belvoir Castle, one of Britain's most imposing homes; her 15-piece band includes the Marquess of Worcester on vocals and the 19th Duke of Somerset on drums. A horsewoman and London...