Options
Bob Geldof/Adele
maidinscotland
Posts: 5,648 Forum Member
✭
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11236278/Why-Adele-was-right-to-ignore-Bob-Geldof-and-Band-Aid.html
I agree with this article, what do you think? Bob Geldof was being totally unnecessary and patronising when he decided to speak about Adele not answering his calls because she is 'bringing up a family'. He has no idea what she is doing in her own time and how she decides to contribute to charity. Maybe if he took more of an interest in his own children things wouldn't have turned out as they did.
I agree with this article, what do you think? Bob Geldof was being totally unnecessary and patronising when he decided to speak about Adele not answering his calls because she is 'bringing up a family'. He has no idea what she is doing in her own time and how she decides to contribute to charity. Maybe if he took more of an interest in his own children things wouldn't have turned out as they did.
0
Comments
If he had been asked and said nothing he would then be being accused of being angry with her.
A very unfair and mean spirited thing to say. A child dying before the parent is always heartbreaking. The charity record and Adele not being on it I don't think is a big deal. She donated money to Oxfam according to the article anyway. Better than 'donating her time'.
Could he not have threatened to release the song as a threat unless he received enough pledges of money etc.
This is the fourth version now - he has gone to the well too many times.
And he makes money out of it also.
Thanks Bob.
That's that cleared up then.
http://news.sky.com/story/1374910/bob-geldof-denies-adele-band-aid-song-snub
What a moronic thing to say
Correct.
By all accounts he is completely uninterested in his own kids. With devastating results.
How cruel.
Bob Geldof seems to have been a very loving parent to his kids (and also the little one that Paula had with Michael Hutchence), its totally unfair to say that about him.
What a totally nasty unfounded comment,>:(
If that's true, I take back my comment (apart from the bit about not liking him!)
Parents cannot be held responsible for what their kids do as adults all the time, whilst I am not his biggest fan or any fan really I think we can tell a lot about him by the fact he took in the daughter of his ex wife and her lover l and treated her like his own and adopted her.
I suppose it started when he was instrumental in organising the largest ever live fund raising event ever back in 1985. Whether you like him or not he has helped raised billions of pounds for charities and starving people around the world. Yes he is a scruffy, loud mouthed bugger but surely no one can deny that his heart is in the right place ................he got off his arse and did something whilst many of us sat at home staring incredulously and feeling helpless at the images of starving children in Africa.
I think the Adele/ Geldof thing has been blown out of proportion by the media who like to stir up muck and fury rather than report on a heart warming story about raising money for a deserving cause.
Is anyone honestly bothered whether Adele took part or not? ^^^^ I think the attacks on how he has raised his family are pretty despicable.
I get the impression he's simply confirming he's just a pretentious hypocritical nob.
I assume you're referring to his late daughter Peaches - who was a married adult woman with a husband, children, her own career and lifestyle and made her own choices. As much as I'm not a fan of Bob, he can't be blamed for the actions of his grown up children.
As I recall, he was left to bring up three young girls of his own AND the child of another man. I'd say he did a pretty good job.
I do get angry at him extolling the virtues of the celebs he did manage to get, how they cancelled concerts and flew back to do this single, when it would have been much better for any charity if they had chosen to perform in those concerts and give the money raised to DEC or any other charity involved in the fight against Ebola ... or, as the article in the OP rightly says, towards the continuing fight against drought, HIV, malaria, and so on in Africa that haven't disappeared in the years between Band Aid singles. These are causes for which people have been fighting throughout
Ebola is the new trend though, as it has been around since the 1970's and previous outbreaks caused nearly 2,000 deaths, but we had no Band Aid single during any of these outbreaks, even though they were eventually contained - so money raised can go to good use, whichever charity you give to. There are charities that have been dealing with Ebola for a lot longer than Band Aid, they just don't have a loud-mouthed ex-singer with high profile friends fighting their corner.
Lol