United Kingdom, June 12 -- Bob Geldof has branded Elon Musk a "prime w*****" for disregarding empathy.

The 73-year-old musician and Live Aid pioneer spoke to the audience after the opening night of Just For One Day: The Live Aid Musical on London's West End at the Shaftesbury Theatre, and he took aim at the billionaire.

In a video shared by Theatre-News.com, he said: "A couple of weeks ago, that prime w***** Elon Musk said something seriously wrong. He said, 'The great weakness of Western civilisation is empathy'.

"The great weakness? ... You sociopathic loser. Empathy is the glue of civilisation. Empathy is the glue of humanity.

"It's how we do things together. It's how we sit here together and clap because we actually understand tha...