Sir Bob Geldof is to be honoured at this year’s Rolling Stone Awards with a Lifetime Achievement prize.
The rock magazine will be hosting their annual ceremony on Thursday at the Roundhouse in Camden.
And the evening’s big winner has already been revealed: political activist, Live Aid organiser and Boomtown Rats frontman Sir Bob Geldof.
“Getting this award really wraps together a lot of things that have happened in my life,” he said, adding he is “thrilled” to receive the award.
Other nominees for Thursday’s ceremony have also been revealed - and musicians who could win The Artist Award are Joy Crookes, Lewis Capaldi, Little Simz, Obongjayar, Olivia Dean and Sam Fender.
FKA twigs's EUSEXUA, The Last Dinner Party's From the Pyre, Little Simz's Lotus, Pulp's More, Sam Fender's People Watching and Wolf Alice's The Clearing are up for The Album Award, supported by ZYN.
And Central Cee and 21 Savage, CMAT, Olivia Dean, RAYE, PinkPantheress and Wolf Alice will battle it out for The Song of the Year.
Following their huge reunion tour this year, Oasis are also nominated for The Group Award and The Live Act Award.
In July, Geldof said Live Aid still resonates today, 40 years on from the two-venue benefit concert which brought together a stellar cast of celebrity musicians.
He said its resonance is why there are documentaries, radio programmes, and a musical dedicated to that day on July 13 1985, “when something weird happened”.
Ahead of a special gala performance of musical Just For One Day: The Live Aid Musical, Geldof said: “I was at Oasis last night in Manchester, who were staggeringly brilliant.
“So I’m buzzing, and I’m still amazed that this old guy can be so thrilled by a great rock and roll band.
“But imagine 40 years ago, seeing all of the greatest rock and roll bands, one after the other, being exceptional for free, no contracts with anyone, they had to pay their own plane fares.”
He continued: “The sheer improbable exhilaration of it… that is what resonates… It’s a time when Britain did something profound with their American brothers.
“And I think it resonates particularly now, because in the sort of age of the death of kindness, which [Donald] Trump and [JD] Vance and [Elon] Musk have ushered in.”
Geldof said he think it resonates “more” than when it was “possible for the boys and girls with guitars to corral the political and economic structures of the world”, also encouraging “the entire electorate and population” to give over money that would help the situation.
