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...Geldof for pulling off the Live Aid concerts. He has proved that one man with a conscience can succeed where entire nations have failed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz Union City...
Look anywhere, in fact. Check out the models in GQ. Tune in Miami Vice and watch Don Johnson as Detective Crockett bag the bad guys. Catch Bob Geldof on the news shows; he must be so busy raising money for famine relief in Africa that he lacks the time and inclination to drag a blade across his jaw. Grab some rays at a tennis tournament and scrutinize the botanical shadow on Bjorn Borg's face. Take a trip down to the local triplex: Mickey Rourke, Timothy Hutton and Christopher Lambert are scruffing up the screen; Mel Gibson...
...most significantly influenced the course of world events in the preceding twelve months. In choosing the 59th Man of the Year, the editors considered such headline makers as Mikhail Gorbachev, the vigorous new Soviet leader; Nelson Mandela, the jailed black South African who symbolizes the struggle against apartheid; Bob Geldof, musical fund raiser for African famine relief; and once again, the terrorist. The editors eventually decided to look beyond the day-to-day news and examine a phenomenon with an enormous potential impact on history: China's sweeping economic reforms, which have challenged Marxist orthodoxies and liberated the productive energies...
...real Bob Geldof is, in fact, a fullhearted rock musician with a stalled career and a tempestuous conscience who launched, almost casually, a musical mobilization to aid starving people in Africa. What he pulled off, and what he inspired, still seems something like a fantasy. A single record by a group of British rock stars organized by Geldof under the rubric Band Aid raised $11 million. The Live Aid concert, held in London and Philadelphia the same July day and broadcast live around the world, brought in an additional $72 million. The success of these projects, as well as Geldof...
...GELDOF We'll see if it works...