European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes june entertainment Bob Geldof fill booming with Tho rats by Judy Cantor associated press Bob Geldof arrived his meeting on shipping food to starving africans ran so he was late for an interview to promote his new the hectic Day of mixed motives was a Typ ical one for who is Lead Singer of the boo town and also the Man who first had the idea for musicians to join together to raise Money for the hungry in a Strong willed irishman with a caustic wit that complements his More serious has no problem balancing these two parts of his the two happily he both Are of supreme importance to because they both involve my one involves making my living and the other involves keeping people Geldof organized the super group of British bands called band Aid after he was disgusted by what he saw in a television documentary on Ethiopia and East the band Aid do they know its released last raised according to and spawned similar efforts by bands in other including Usa for Geldof also is organizing the simultaneous superstar concerts to be staged in London Wembley stadium and Philadelphia As John Kennedy stadium july 13 to raise additional famine Relief while Geldof continues to spend a lot of time in the band Aid office in boo town rats have come out with their first american release in 216 when the band Aid thing we  really bring it out because it would seem like we were capitalizing on its band aids Geldof so we held fire with and now is As Good a time As any to put it a photo Bob organizer of the group band formed to raise Money for famine Geldof and the other rats Johnny Gary Pete briquette and Simon Crow Are Busy hyping in the Long the title of the and an Irish saying for keeping a Low people what have you been doing and you Ive been lying in the Long which Means youve been you just May not have been Geldof boo town rats formed in their native Ireland in the bands first up won a Best album of the year award in and after another Geldof arrived for a promo tour of the United states in 1979 on the heels of five hit during that he read a newspaper Story about Brenda a 17yearold who went on a shooting spree in her san Diego killing two her explanation i dont like gel does song of the same name became a hit worldwide and created a cult following for the rats in the United Geldof is not the Type to sit around and enjoy the trappings of a successful Rock Hes a Man who knows and does what he a musician who cultivated hits in London late 1970s new wave scene and was Able to walk away from i got i once said if it stopped being id he i cant stand seeing bands on stage just playing and it Means nothing to Geldof then tried with a Lead role in Pink floyds the in this he will appear in two More British boo town rats have decided to Start recording and touring again because Treyve renewed their excitement about making Geldof the group also could use the because despite their previous they wound up we determined that we would never do any thing again without making we must unashamedly do so because this is our Geldof once i understood the i set about putting the whole thing Back together again and the result is this Geldof Hopes that his re association with the rats will help dispel an image people have had of him lately because of his work with band tedious is the notion that perhaps if you look hard enough youll see the shimmer of Gold emanating from my he said with a it pays to disabuse people of that halos get extremely heavy and they rust pretty b y g o 5 c h some Heads Are Gonna Roll this weekend when the heavy rockers of deep purple and the scorpions team up to play a Benefit soccer game in this a Day after the deep purple open air festival at mannheims Ritchie Ian Ian Paice and Roger Glover of deep purple join forces with Klaus Rudolf Schenker and Matthias jabs of the scorpions to vie for goals against a team from the German Adf television proceeds from the game will Benefit a local school for handicapped it All takes place at 2 sunday at the rot Weiss spor Platz in located on Ludwig across from the admission to the game is five German Marks tickets will be available at the and the first spectators will receive free photos of deep to also happening this weekend is another music Marathon on German the second pro Gram Adf presents Rock pop music Hall from saturday until about 3 bands on the show include Frankie goes to Paul deep teams up with the scorpions for soccer action this Pia China Gary Moore and Phil Moore and both former members of the now defunct thin have recently released called out in the now at 18 on the British the end seems near for super group Van according to an upcoming Issue of rolling Stone Rumor has it that guitarist Eddie has been scouting around for a new Lead Singer and vocalist David Lee Roth intends to go into acting full Hes even been working on his own Bruce Springsteen and his Estreet with Nils Lofgren on swung through Germany just Over a week performing in near sold out stadiums in Frankfurt and As always with the the crowd got what it paid for just under four hours of Homegrown Rock v Springsteen put in about a half hour a giant video screen provided closeups for fans too far away to see the the concert included songs from Springsteen entire from born to run to in on fire of born in the he did pull a female fan onto the stage for a couple of dance Steps during a performance of dancing in the Security was extremely tight at the Frankfurt with barbed wire fences keeping the crowd in Cam eras had to be checked in at the door per order of Springsteen management disappointing for Many professional photographers was the fact that Only three were granted permission from Springsteen managers to take photos from up front during the first three while the rest had to remain in the special vip grandstand a couple Hun dred meters away from the Springsteen continues his tour through Europe with performances in London july 4 and and in Leeds july