By the fall of 1984, the career of British punk rocker Bob Geldof was about as flatlined and rut-stuck as you can get in the rarified air of rock 'n' roll. While his band, the Boomtown Rats, had had some regional success in the United Kingdom, none of its songs had climbed higher than number 67 on the U.S. charts. Far too often, Geldof s music and the Rats' performances ended on a sour note.rnThen one dreary London evening in mid-November 1984, as Geldof sat slouched in front of his television, the BBC aired a documentary about a hundred-year drought that was threatening millions of Ethiopians with starvation.
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