Why is peaches geldof hated

I took it as part of what people do. Someone you lust for but can't have. It's like reading a fantasy novel. That elusive thing, the unattainable. But they also love a downfall.

They're a hateful breed. It's exciting to hate celebrities. It's archaic. I don't care if someone in Boise, Idaho thinks I'm a fat bitch. Geldof is wearing sunglasses. So I put Zovirax [a fairly heavy-duty cold sore treatment] on my eye. You idiot! I say, and take a look. His eye seems fine, if crumpled. Anyhow, his style is irrelevant. You just grab on by your fingernails.

Oddly, it feels as if Geldof does, too. He keeps getting up to pour himself a black coffee. At one point, he pours himself a cup of hot water. Without breaking flow, he just spins around and chucks the water into the bin, then fills up and continues. We are here to talk about the Boomtown Rats , which some might say is the least interesting thing about Bob Geldof.

His life in music has long been overshadowed by his other lives, which we will come to: his anti-poverty campaigning and, more tragically, his personal life, particularly the death of his ex-wife Paula Yates from a heroin overdose in and, in April this year, the death of his daughter Peaches in similar circumstances. They played at the Isle of Wight festival and were a triumph, so they did a few small dates and released an album of their old tunes.

Some of the band have mortgages to pay. Geldof tells a funny story about doing a tour of schools with Talking Heads and the Ramones in All playing to schoolchildren in layered hairdos and flares. Did the kids go mad? They could not get their heads around any of us. Especially not Talking Heads. They just stared and stared. The Boomtown Rats never fitted properly into punk — punk was too snobbily English to accept these young Irishmen in their over-wide trousers — but they did very well in the charts.

Their songs were new wave as opposed to punk: overproduced, with uncool piano and saxophone. But they were hooky and well constructed, plus their lyrics were about something. They told stories. This is another reason why Geldof agreed, last year, to re-form the Rats. And we went back afterwards, somewhat ruefully, because we thought it was over, and something happened.

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