Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.

So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know

Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.