Under his tenure, the BBC broadcast Live Aid and launched its first breakfast television programme.
The Boomtown Rats split in 1986, not long after they performed at Live Aid, which Geldof organised.
The band's last major live performance was at the 1985 Live Aid concert at Wembley, organised by Geldof.
But Geldof's agenda does not include organising another event similar to Live Aid.
Its impact was demonstrated by reporter Michael Buerk's 1984 report on the Ethiopian famine which inspired the original Live Aid concert the following year.
Western governments and publics, who became aware of Ethiopian hunger through the Band Aid and Live Aid charity concerts, gave freely.
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Big Country sang at one of the signature musical events of the 1980s - the Live Aid concert at Wembley, in 1985.
"Twenty years ago I performed at Live Aid, " she will tell viewers.
The predecessor of them all was Live Aid, which raised millions for the continent of Africa and was broadcast around the world in 1985.
Rossi said they were "desperate" to join the Hyde Park concert, but despite opening its Live Aid predecessor, they were kept off the bill.
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There is not, Andy, let me be specifically clear, not a single shred of evidence that Band Aid or Live Aid money was diverted in any sense.
And in his time, he strongly defended the BBC's independence and it flourished creatively, with the launch of breakfast television, Newsnight and EastEnders, and the Live Aid concert broadcast.
Since raising millions for Ethiopian famine victims by masterminding the Live Aid campaign, Geldof's passion to better the lives of those living in some of the poorest countries has not dampened.
It's just, I mean, virtually impossible to live without the food aid, you know.
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Mr Clinton, now a UN special envoy, has spearheaded attempts to get international donors to live up to their promises of aid.
There's estimated to be another 3-400, 000 who haven't signed up for aid, and don't live in tented camps.
The street children of Mongolia have earned plenty of attention from aid agencies because of where they live.
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RT, citing witnesses, said a man trying to cross a large puddle was initially electrocuted, and then four others who tried to come to his aid were then killed by the live electrical current.
But India, despite its booming economy, will keep getting aid for the millions of the world's poorest who live there.
Houses were constructed, but according to the standards of an outside aid agency, not the needs of the people who had to live in them.
However, it increasingly appears that the food aid issue has become intertwined with efforts to persuade the North to live up to its previous commitments on denuclearization.
The people most at risk perhaps are those who live in the central highlands, where 500, 000 people are dependent on food aid.
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Many of the tribal people that live in the area, and have set up lashkars, or local armies, to aid the military to attack the Taliban were angered over the NATO attack.
Yet even the total aid is equal only to a single year's revenue from the export of live cattle.
"The case for continued UK aid to India is about a third of all the world's poor who live there, " says Dr Sumner.
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