Bob Geldof has said he is still struggling with his daughter’s death – but music has been his saviour.
The Boomtown Rats star lost his daughter Peaches Geldof in 2014 to a drug overdose, and has given a passionate interview about her death.
Speaking to Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late Show, Bob admitted that he was “half living in the expectation” that Peaches would die, because of “having a problem with drugs”.
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“(I was) all the time on tender hooks. But you never expect it to happen,” he admitted.
Bob spoke about losing his mother young, his first wife Paula young as well as losing his sister, but said Peaches was “the most difficult one. I don’t seem to be able to put that one aside or compartmentalise it.
“The worst thing is that this very mad, beautiful kid, stupidly talent, too articulate, too able to write like nothing…she’s always 24 forever,” he explained.
Ryan asked the famous musician how he has been dealing with her death, and Bob said he is used to just getting on with it.
“Maybe I’m used to everyone around me dying, maybe it’s that,” he said.
“You just get on with it, you have a survival mechanism, you get going, then subsequently when an event happens when somebody dies, then I think all that stuff from being a child comes back and whacks you, and that sense of grief is overwhelming.
“Time doesn’t heal it accommodates…Â the pain is always there and at certain unwanted moments, unheralded moments, you’re at a party with friends and suddenly this overwhelming sense is in your head,” he said.
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The singer added that getting back with the Boomtown Rats has kept him sane.
“It’s playing live, that keeps you sane you suddenly don’t have to be normal Bob, once you put on the suit you’re Bobby Boomtown,” he explained.
“It doesn’t put anything into perspective but stuff happens, everybody here, everybody watching, stuff happens. What do you do? You get on with it.
“But the getting on with it gets harder. If it wasn’t for the band and the music..the drive, the energy, we all have that.
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“If it wasn’t for that…it’s a great catharsis, it’s a great cleansing.”
The Dubliner added that he got lovely messages from the public since Peaches’ death.
“I got so many beautiful letters and cards and mass cards and things like that, it was overwhelming actually”
“It helps, it’s very odd, of course it helps, you think that those things don’t matter but complete strangers, it helped.
“I read them all, IÂ Â replied ot as many as I could reply to,” he added.
