Bob Geldof

🎂 Data nașterii: 1951-10-05 (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.

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Bob Geldof

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Doug and the Slugs and Me

There's Only One Paul McCartney

Spice World

An Audience with Billy Connolly

Pink Floyd - Peretele

Live 8

Lovesongs Of The 70's

Live Eighties

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

An Audience with Mel Brooks

I Am Bob

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball

The Boomtown Rats: Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1978

The Rocker: A Portrait of Phil Lynott

Mauvaise Fille

Ghost Blues: The Story of Rory Gallagher

Number One

Jools Holland: My Life in Music

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said

Sclavia modernă

The Quiet One

One World, One Voice

Irish Rock at the BBC

ABBA V Queen

Starsuckers

The Boomtown Rats Live in Japan 1980

The Making of Sun City

Cea mai grozavă noapte a popului

The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition

Sketches of Frank Gehry

Quintessentially Irish

Stuck in the Middle

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Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen

Bernard and the Genie

The Old Fools

Rory Gallagher: Calling Card

Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar

London's Burning

Behind the Music: Michael Hutchence

New York Doll

A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

Coast to Coast

Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era

Postcards from the 48%

Stranded

The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities

Live Aid

The Other Side of the Wall

Bob Geldof: The Moment

Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey

Live Aid

The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?

Pavarotti & Friends

Jazzopen Stuttgart 2017 - Festival der Weltstars und Wunderkinder

Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live

Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats

Bob Geldof - Berlin Live

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song

Bob Geldof - Geldof goes Goondiwindi

Scena punk din Londra

'Do They Know It's Christmas?' - The Story Of The Official Band Aid Video

Live Aid Against All Odds

The World's Greatest Gigs

Diana & Me

Best Ever Spitting Image

BP Fallon: Rock'n'Roll Wizard

Scarfe's Follies

The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?

Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped

The Rory Gallagher Story

The Best of Max Headroom

Zombie Plane

Bohemian Rhapsody: Recreating Live Aid

On the Frontlines of Hunger