Bob Geldof Sounds Off on Drumpf the 'Vulgar Fool,' Boris the 'Simpleton,'

Bob Geldof Sounds Off on Drumpf the ‘Vulgar Fool,’ Boris the ‘Simpleton,’ and Why America Is ‘Screwed’

The Boomtown Rats were never really a thing in America.

As a new documentary about the band makes clear, although they were one of the best and brightest of the New Wave bands to emerge from the British music scene in the late 1970s, once here in America, the sheer size and scope, not to mention a sneering attitude and plain old bad luck, conspired time and again to derail their collective ambitions.

But Bob Geldof, the man who brought you Band Aid, Live Aid, Live8, and who lived through a messy celebrity divorce and the death of a child in the tabloid press, for better or worse, is about as well-known as they come.

Never one to resort to auto-pilot promotion of his latest projects, over coffee at his SoHo hotel last month—ostensibly to talk about Welcome to Boomtown, the documentary; the Rats’ new album, Citizens of Boomtown, their first in 36 years, and full of the swagger and biting social commentary the Rats were always known for; as well as a book of lyrics, Tales of Boomtown—he sounds off about mass surveillance, the fall of the British Empire, Boris Johnson and Donald Drumpf, and the days when the music business set the cultural agenda.

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