Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1992,

and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week fits no neat professional category. He began life 40 years ago just outside Dublin and his childhood was hard.

His mother died when he was small and he was brought up by strict priests and a father who beat him.

After school he spent several aimless years before forming a band, The Boomtown Rats,

which enjoyed great success in the late 70s. And then in 1984, shocked by the news of the

famine in Ethiopia, he became the inspiration behind Band-Aid and the record they

made became the most successful single ever produced in Britain.

It led six months later to the legendary Live Aid concert.

Typically he's now left the charity behind him, uninterested in something which has become an institution.

Instead, he's planning to produce breakfast television for Channel 4.

He is Bob Geldof.

Or should I say Sir Bob Geldof?

Do you ever use the title? I don't but the taxi driver on the way over was Sir Bobbing furiously.

But you earned it on that July day in 1985 and it's a day that people across the world will never forget the day of the

Live Aid concert when you inspired millions to raise millions. You said at the time

that it was the greatest day of your life and one presumes it hasn't been

eclipsed since.

No and I don't think it's possible.

But it wasn't so much that I was aware it was the greatest day of my life at the dawning of that particular day.

It was at a specific moment during the day when I was on stage with my band the Bunta and Rats and the

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