Summary
A Classic Pop Music Book of the Year
FEATURING A FOREWORD BY BOB GELDOF
The authoritative, official inside story of 40 years of Live Aid, from Band Aid to today.
In 1985, with £100+ million in his back pocket from Live Aid – the greatest rock concert the world had ever seen – Bob Geldof took a trip across Africa to decide how to spend the money he had raised for the Ethiopian famine. He asked Paul Vallely to g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781917923415 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1917923414 |
| Author: | Paul Vallely |
| Publisher: | Putman Publishing |
| Imprint: | New Modern |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 590 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Paul Vallely
Paul Vallely first met Bob Geldof while covering the 1984–85 famine in Ethiopia for The Times. Inspired by Vallely’s reporting, Geldof invited him to travel across Africa in 1985 to determine how the £140 million raised by Live Aid would be allocated.
Vallely co-authored Bob Geldof’s bestselling autobiography, Is That It, and wrote several publications on Live Aid and Live 8 for the Band Aid Trust. In 1990, he authored Bad Samaritans: First World Ethics and Third World Debt, a seminal study that influenced Geldof and Bono’s transition from charitable aid to justice advocacy, culminating in Live 8.
He also served as Geldof’s advisor on the Commission for Africa. This commission was instrumental in advocating for increased aid to Africa and debt cancellation, leading to the Gleneagles G8 summit. Vallely contributed to the Commission for Africa report, writing the Penguin edition and co-authoring the full report, Our Common Interest.
Previously, Vallely chaired two international development agencies: Traidcraft and the Catholic Institute for International Relations. He is currently a senior research fellow at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.
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