It was a love triangle that the world's tabloid press could only have dreamt about. Sex, drugs, rock-'n'-roll, suicides and an orphaned child. But for Sir Bob Geldof, the visionary rock star behind the Live Aid concerts, it's all too real. When his adored wife, Paula Yates, ran off with Australian pop icon Michael Hutchence, their affair and tragic deaths left him angry, bitter and broken. He'd never spoken so frankly about that last phone call between him and Hutchence, nor so emotionally about raising Tiger Lily, the daughter Paula and Michael left behind, until this 2002 interview with Ray Martin.

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