Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof is an Irish singer, songwriter and campaigner, born in Dublin in 1951. He co-founded the Boomtown Rats in Dún Laoghaire in 1975 and became the group’s lead vocalist. Their recordings include Rat Trap, I Don’t Like Mondays and Banana Republic.

With Midge Ure he organised Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? in 1984 to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia, followed by the Live Aid concerts in 1985. Alongside his campaigning, he pursued solo recordings and returned to the reunited Boomtown Rats, who released Citizens of Boomtown in 2020.