Bob Geldof’s Live Aid heroics cost him his marriage to the late Paula Yates and his career.The Boomtown Rats singer, who was dubbed Saint Bob for putting together the global music event 35 years ago on Monday with Ultravox frontman Midge Ure, admits Live Aid took a huge toll on his life.The concerts raised more than $127 million for the victims of African famine, and Geldof has always been the face of the event, but in a new interview to mark the 35th anniversary, Geldof says the shows had a huge personal cost on his life.“For a while I was bewildered,” he tells the Associated Press. “I didn’t have much money at the time.
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