Sad but an OD was t he culprit...

This.  As a father, I can't even imagine.  I'd be absolutely destroyed.

I wouldn't get too hung up on that

Tell me why.

I see what you did there....

I see what you did there, too.

Yeah...



RIP girl, and prayers to Bob and the rest of the family.



 

BLASPHEMER!!!  BAN HIM!!!  

A death of a young mother is a sad day.

Strange. She always seemed like she had her shit together...

He's a wizard.

I roundly hated that, back in the day, but it was pretty cool watching it just now.  

Behold the power of nostalgia.

It is not always a great lot in life to be the kid of a uber-famous-wealthy parent.

Sad.

Now that's just eff'd up...

Bob's an interesting guy (more on that in a moment): that video is about a mass school shooting in 1979  (link):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Don't_Like_Mondays

"According to Geldof, he wrote the song after reading a telex report at Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime and her full explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day".[2] The song was first performed less than a month later. Geldof explained how he wrote the song:

I was doing a radio interview in Atlanta with Fingers and there was a telex machine beside me. I read it as it came out. Not liking Mondays as a reason for doing somebody in is a bit strange. I was thinking about it on the way back to the hotel and I just said 'Silicon chip inside her head had switched to overload'. I wrote that down. And the journalists interviewing her said, 'Tell me why?' It was such a senseless act. It was the perfect senseless act and this was the perfect senseless reason for doing it. So perhaps I wrote the perfect senseless song to illustrate it. It wasn't an attempt to exploit tragedy.[3]"

Whether Bob thought it through or just wrote the song as an emotional reaction to a horrible, dispicable crime by a madwoman, the song stoked emotions and garnered support amongst the general population for anti-guns legislation in the U.K. and America.


Bob is also a life-long rocker who could have easily been a "one hit wonder." Instead, he instead FOCUSED his brush with fame into an actual aid effort with real effects which went way beyond LiveAid. He was and is active trying to help people.  His desire is genuine and persistent and for that he deserves credit.

However, as one person above mentioned, the efforts seem focused on immediate relief without a thought to real, sustainable solutions for Africa's problems.

I feel terrible for the death of his daughter; what parent wouldn't?? This is a tragedy however it happened.  Just just awful.  

Drugs involved.

Gives a crap?

My money says od

 

Yeah but he could really belt out a tune.

Show Biz isn't any way of real life.

I think the Acorn didn't fall too far from the tree.

All the same, really sucks for Bob G.  No Father should outlive his daughter.

 BURN THE HEATHEN!!!!!

Yep, 'spect its drug-related.  25 is awful young to die naturally.  Sad for the family.

Considering he died from autoerotic asphyxiation it's not out of the question.

Drugs.   Yep...we need to legalize all of them, right?

Choke yourself.

That sounds like the anti-gun argument a liberal would concoct from suicides...

Plus she didn't like Mondays according to the Sun.

Can't read the article from work, but when your wife ends up preggers by another man, you tend to not be a big fan ......

Suicide blonds being suicide blonds ....

This. So sad

Same here.

Still don't know who she is.

In juvie for peddling raw milk .

Peaches had a long history of drug abuse (heroin) but had supposedly gotten clean a few years ago.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2599104/Peaches-Geldof-original-wild-child-turned-doting-mum-spent-life-fighting-demons-fractured-childhood.html

That's a damned shame for a father to have to bury his daughter, and it looks like she had a kid as well.

Bob Geldof was also "Pink" in the movie "Pink Floyd-The Wall."

Don't know if it was intentional or not.  I just think it's kinda fucked up considering the context of the song that broke The Boomtown Rats.  Sad. I feel for Geldolf. Always liked his music.

I figured out what happened.


A few weeks before her death, Peaches had expressed concern that her home in Kent may be haunted.
The socialite shared a photo of herself and son Astala in the bath in December which appeared to show a translucent hand to the side of her neck.
She wrote next to the picture: 'And no that isn't my hand - one of mine was round his waist to hold him during the photo, the other holding the camera to take the shot. Also the hand is around my shoulder so totally weird angle if I did it myself. How terrifying!! (sic)'.
Peaches posted the spooky selfie on Instagram and told how she believed the hand belonged to the spirit of a woman who committed suicide nearly 100 years ago after delivering a stillborn baby.
She said: 'The house was built in the 1920s by a rich man and his pregnant wife.
'However, his wife had a stillborn baby and was so grief-stricken she went mad. She apparently drowned herself in the bath.'
Peaches claimed she often felt a ghostly presence in the house - but said it was a welcoming one rather than threatening.
She added: 'The presence I feel isn't malignant or angry, rather maternal and friendly - the house has a lovely atmosphere.
'Maybe she's just making her presence known because she loves having babies around.'
Peaches even started to leave her door open when she slept at night in case the 'ghost comes back'.

Prayers for their family...

Wow...really?  really?