The Rat And The Band Aid "Saint"
Mick Brown, Sunday Times, 23 December 1984
BOB GELDOF has been transformed from fading Boomtown Rat to charity superstar behind Christmass biggest pop hit, helping Ethiopian famine victims. Mick Brown reports.
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