‘Nobody wanted me as a musician, they wanted me to be Saint Bob, and I couldn’t stand it’: How a new Geldof emerged when the hits dried up | Business Post

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A new book by journalist Nick Duerden offers a fascinating account of what happens to pop stars once their moment in the sun passes. ​ ​In this extract, Bob Geldof describes the complex process of wrestling for an identity after the music faded.

Bob Geldof: 'I’d just had my first baby, I was 30 years old, and I thought: That’s it? What a brutal business pop music is.’ Picture: Getty

Bob Geldof had a cunning plan, the last-gasp attempt of a desperate man who didn’t know when to quit. The ‘v’ between his unplucked eyebrows was becoming a permanent tattoo, his mood increasingly irascible. His back hurt. He’d always known, and had accepted, that pop was a lethal game – “when you’re dead, you’re dead” – but when he found his own band suddenly on their uppers when, just yesterday, they’d been superstar-bound, he thought...

 

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