
Bob Geldof
Born October 5, 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Pink Floyd: The Wall

The Greatest Night in Pop

Spice World

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

The Best of Max Headroom

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song

Queen: Champions of the World

Live 8

Live Aid

Live Aid Against All Odds

Zombie Plane

An Audience with Mel Brooks

Bernard and the Genie

An Audience with Billy Connolly

Live Aid: 20 Years Ago Today

Ghost Blues: The Story of Rory Gallagher

Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

Bad Girl

Sketches of Frank Gehry

The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Music Edition

Best Ever Spitting Image

Quintessentially Irish

BP Fallon: Rock'n'Roll Wizard

Live Eighties

The Making of Do They Know It's Christmas?

There's Only One Paul McCartney

Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

Max Headroom's Giant Christmas Turkey

The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball

Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible

The Making of Sun City

The Rocker: A Portrait of Phil Lynott

The Comic Relief Utterly Utterly Rude Video Live
TV Shows

Top Gear

maybrit illner

Wogan

ZDF-Fernsehgarten

Richard & Judy

Omnibus

An Audience with...

Parkinson

V Graham Norton

This Is Your Life

World in Action

Parkinson

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Skavlan

HARDtalk

Going Live!

The Word

Legends

The Kenny Everett Television Show

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Seven Ages of Rock

The Kenny Everett Video Show

Schmidteinander

The Meaning of Life

Plattenküche

Berlin Live

Omnibus Presents Comic Relief

Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World

Three of a Kind

Blair: The Inside Story

Grumpy Old Men

Paula

The Noughties...Was That It?

In Conversation with Alan Yentob
More Movies

Postcards from the 48%

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

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

Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar

Live Aid

One World, One Voice

The Quiet One

8

Bohemian Rhapsody: Recreating Live Aid

Coast to Coast

The World's Greatest Gigs

Jazz Open Stuttgart 2017 - Festival of World Stars and Child Prodigies

A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities

Queen: Is This the Real Life?

Jools Holland: My Life in Music

ABBA V Queen

Irish Rock at the BBC

Citizens Of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats

The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?

Number One

Nichts als die Wahrheit - 30 Jahre Die Toten Hosen

The Rory Gallagher Story

Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era

On the Frontlines of Hunger

Diana & Me

Pavarotti & Friends

Rory Gallagher: Calling Card

Lovesongs Of The 70's

New York Doll

The Boomtown Rats: Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1978

Doug and the Slugs and Me

Bob Geldof - Geldof goes Goondiwindi

Scarfe's Follies

Punk in London

Clan Banlieue, 1992-2004: La Grande Famiglia in Movimento

The Other Side of the Wall

London's Burning

Bob Geldof - Berlin Live

Bob Geldof: The Moment

The Boomtown Rats: Live at Wacken

Starsuckers

Stranded

The Boomtown Rats Live in Japan 1980

Modern Slavery




