Bob Geldof: “Why journalists should shut up!”
A few weeks ago, I met Bob Geldof. I had to make a portrait of him for the Dutch newspaper I work for. Apparently, Geldof hasn’t got much respect for Berlin journalists. “All you guys should shut the fuck up,” he told the reporters at the press conference of his organization DATA (debts, AIDS, trade, Africa) in Berlin. “You didn’t write about Africa, you haven’t been there, so now you listen to me,” Geldof shouted. He was having his usual bad hair day, and had already let his audience, packed in a sticky room at ![]()

