Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Zenon Bob Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor, and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s, alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his compositions Rat Trap and I Dont Like Mondays. He cowrote Do They Know Its Christmas, one of the bestselling singles of all time, and starred in Pink Floyds 1982 film Pink Floyd The Wall as Pink.

Geldof was born and brought up in Dn Laoghaire, Ireland, a son of Robert and Evelyn Geldof. His paternal grandfather, Zenon Geldof, was a Belgian immigrant and a hotel chef. His paternal grandmother, Amelia Falk, was an English Jew from London. When Geldof was six or seven, his mother, Evelyn, 41, died of a cerebral haemorrhage.

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