Bob Geldof speaks re Van & Bruce & Phil & Rory @ Electric Picnic 2015

After doing a terrific main stage set with the Boomtown Rats, Bob speaks to the Hotpress about the mesmerising songwriting craft of Van Morrison ("the singular Irish songwirting genius"); also how he claims not to have heard Bruce Springsteen after people suggested back in the day that "Joey" on the first Rats album sounded so much like the Boss, and how he suggested that "he's never gonna make it with a name like that"! & seeing Taste in 1969, and some great memories about the great Phil Lynott

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Philo!

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Geldof being a snide about Ireland as per usual.