Geldof Heals With 'Sex, Age, and Death'

Bob Geldof, organizer of the Live-Aid Benefit in 1985 and mainstay on the British music scene since the '70s, plays songs from his new album "Sex, Age, and Death" on The Early Show.

"Sex, Age, and Death," Geldof's first album in seven years, is a pop/rock record with a somber tone. Making the album, he says, helped him get through a difficult and dark period in his life.

The death of his ex-wife Paula Yates who left him for the late Michael Hutchence from INXS sent Geldof to an emotional low. The love-triangle tragedy and the speculation that both their deaths were suicide was played out daily in the British Tabloids. Geldof is raising Yates and Hutchence's daughter together as his own.

Geldof has released several albums alone since his band, The Boomtown Rats, broke up in 1986 after eleven years together. His first solo effort, "Deep in the Heart of Nowhere" featured a performance with Eric Clapton and his last effort "The Happy Club" was more optimistic than "Sex, Age, and Death."

Recently, Geldof has teamed up with U2's Bono in the Drop the Debt campaign — lobbying the U.S. to forgive the debt of Third World nations. He considers it an extension of the work he did when he organized the Live-Aid benefit, which raised hundreds of millions of dollars for third world relief, earned him a nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize and a knighting by Queen Elizabeth.

Geldof, a native Dublin, Ireland, has also made use of his numerous other talents including acting in a major role in the 1982 film adaptation of Pink Floyd's "The Wall," writing his England bestseller autobiography and, ever a sharp businessmen, owning a large chunk of the "Survivor" franchise.