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Rocking The Poor.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Relief: When last we heard from Bob Geldof -- now Sir Bob -- the Irish rock singer was drawing attention to African famine by assembling superstars to perform in something called "Live Aid." That was 20 years ago.
The concerts, the broadcasts, the CDs -- all fattened a charitable purse carried around by the once-obscure leader of The Boomtown Rats. Geldof opened it and showered its contents on the starving Dark Continent, and many were relieved of their misery. Not a bad gesture, not bad at all.
Of course, there were good reasons to worry that the relief would be short-lived. But the starving people were fed for at least a little while. And celebrities who grew up in the rock culture got to display their global consciences alongside their global egos.
If the right hands did know what the left hands were doing, some attention was at least paid. The iconoclastic Geldof got to meet the queen and take home a knighthood. But then he just took his title and sort of receded.
He made more Rats CDs, little noticed, and a Web site, which was all about Bob and promised "no b------t." To be sure, he was eclipsed by yet another cosmic conscience, countryman Bono, who's fraternized with popes and secretaries of ...
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