{"id":76641,"date":"2025-09-21T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/76641\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:01:09","slug":"bob-geldof-strippers-on-sunday-morning-in-sheriff-street-the-girl-at-our-first-gig-who-wanted-to-go-to-bed-with-me-and-why-phil-lynott-said-i-had-to-get-a-fking-limousine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/76641\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Geldof: Strippers on Sunday morning in Sheriff Street, the girl at our first gig who wanted to &#8216;go to bed&#8217; with me and why Phil Lynott said I had to get a &#8216;fking limousine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Celebrating 50 years of the band, Geldof says he\u2019s \u2018happy\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Geldof is too busy on the Boomtown promo trail to throw his hat into the presidential ring. Photo: Mark Cowne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SF BG Mark Cowne 1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bob Geldof is too busy on the Boomtown promo trail to throw his hat into the presidential ring. Photo: Mark Cowne<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u2018Is that you, Egan?\u201d Bob Geldof says, putting on the voice of a belligerent teacher he might have encountered during his unhappy days at Blackrock College, when he and I meet via Zoom. \u201cF**king hell! You are going seriously grey and bald, Egan!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With the distinguished salt-and-pepper hair, he looks younger than his 73 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrating 50 years of the band, Geldof says he\u2019s \u2018happy\u2019 Bob Geldof is too busy on the Boomtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[21088,3377,356,18,1647,117,19,17,34992,1874,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-76641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bob-geldof","9":"tag-bono","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-mary-robinson","17":"tag-michael-d-higgins","18":"tag-presidential-election"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}