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Oxford Reference. Publications Pages Publications Pages. Recently viewed 0 Save Search. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Subscriber sign in You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Username Please enter your Username. Password Please enter your Password. She married American musician Max Drummey in in Las Vegas but the marriage ended in divorce in She married Thomas Cohen, lead singer of the London band S.
M, in and gave birth to their sons Astala and Phaedra in and In April , Peaches died of a heroin overdose in her home at the age of A coroner found her cause of death was opioid intoxication.
Peaches had been taking methadone for two and a half years before her death but started taking heroin again in February Geldof stated the family was "beyond pain" after he confirmed the news of her death. I didn't understand why I lost everything I thought to be true. She has appeared on the cover of magazines like Tatler and been the face of advertising campaigns for Levis, Agent Provocateur and more.
She was due to DJ at Coachella in but cancelled it following the death of her sister, Peaches. She married George Barnett, drummer of These New Puritans, in June in Majorca and the couple has one child together, who was born earlier this year.
Tiger, now 25, has remained largely out of the spotlight, though Richard Lowenstein, the director of documentary Mystify: Michael Hutchence, revealed on a podcast that Tiger Lily has not received any money from her father's estate. The best food, health, entertainment and lifestyle content from the irishexaminer.
The best food, health, entertainment and lifestyle content from the Irish Examiner, direct to your inbox. 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.
And we were ferocious. Still, the day before the Rats were due to play the Isle of Wight, he went on stage with a big German band called Die Toten Hosen the Dead Trousers , to get the feel of performing in front of thousands.
As soon as he slithered into that, he was there. The racket. And the rackety-ness, how it might fall apart at any minute. Record company people telling him he had to write a hit. We talk about singers who successfully negotiate getting older. Music is his first and longest lasting love, but he will never reach the heights of his heroes.
Still, he has what none of those other songwriters has: another job. And because of this, he zooms about in the upperest of echelons.
He does this at the South By Southwest festival, at international business conferences, even at a launch for smart meters. A few years ago, he started a private equity company, 8 Miles , that invests only in African projects, the idea being that the investors make money not in a couple of years, but a long time hence.
He works with One , the foundation set up by Bono that campaigns to end poverty and preventable disease, mostly in Africa. Geldof is all about the big idea: the big move, the historical sweep.
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