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Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof

Actor · b. 1951 · Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland

Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE (born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved popularity as part of the punk rock movement. The band had UK number one hits with his co-compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays". Geldof starred as Pink in Pink Floyd's 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall. As a fundraiser, Geldof organised the charity supergroup Band Aid and the concerts Live Aid and Live 8, and co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?", one of the best-selling singles to date. Geldof is widely recognised for his activism, especially his anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa. In 1984, he and Midge Ure founded the charity supergroup Band Aid to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. They went on to organise the charity super-concert Live Aid the following year and the Live 8 concerts in 2005. Geldof currently serves as an adviser to the ONE Campaign, co-founded by fellow Irish rock singer and activist Bono, and is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. A single father, Geldof has also been outspoken for the fathers' rights movement. Geldof was granted an honorary knighthood (KBE) by Elizabeth II in 1986 for his charity work in Africa: it is an honorary award as Geldof is an Irish citizen, but he is often referred to as 'Sir Bob'. He is a recipient of the Man of Peace title which recognises individuals who have made "an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace", among numerous other awards and nominations. In 2005, he received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Geldof, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Series23

  • TV6.5
  • TV4.7

    DAS!

    1991 · 6 votes

  • TV5.2

    Leute heute

    1997 · 5 votes

  • TV7.1

    Have I Got News for You

    1990 · 82 votes

  • TV7.6

    Top Gear

    2002 · 914 votes

  • TV9.0

    maybrit illner

    1999 · 2 votes

  • TV5.6

    Wogan

    1982 · 8 votes

  • TV7.2

    3 nach 9

    1974 · 5 votes

  • TV2.8

    ZDF-Fernsehgarten

    1986 · 5 votes

  • TV3.4

    Richard & Judy

    2001 · 13 votes

  • TV7.2

    Omnibus

    1967 · 9 votes

  • TV5.3

    An Audience with...

    1978 · 3 votes

  • TV
  • TV5.7

    Goldene Kamera

    1984 · 3 votes

  • TV5.3

    V Graham Norton

    2002 · 6 votes

  • TV6.7

    This Is Your Life

    1955 · 9 votes

  • TV7.0

    World in Action

    1963 · 2 votes

  • TV6.1
  • TV5.0

    Skavlan

    2009 · 10 votes

  • TV8.7

    HARDtalk

    1997 · 3 votes

  • TV8.0

    Going Live!

    1987 · 2 votes

  • TV6.0

    The Word

    1990 · 6 votes

  • TV5.0

    Legends

    2006 · 1 votes

Movies19

  • Movie8.0

    Pink Floyd: The Wall

    1982 · 1.7K votes

  • Movie7.9

    The Greatest Night in Pop

    2024 · 315 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Spice World

    1997 · 517 votes

  • Movie8.5
  • Movie8.4
  • Movie8.3
  • Movie7.4

    Live 8

    2005 · 27 votes

  • Movie7.9

    Live Aid

    1985 · 54 votes

  • Movie9.0
  • Movie7.0
  • Movie7.3

    Bernard and the Genie

    1991 · 29 votes

  • Movie8.4
  • Movie6.6
  • Movie6.3
  • Movie5.2

    Mauvaise Fille

    Bad Girl

    2012 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.9

    Sketches of Frank Gehry

    2006 · 23 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie
  • Movie6.4

    Quintessentially Irish

    2024 · 8 votes