Bob Geldof Biography

Bob Geldof is an Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist and occasional actor. He was known 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 was so famous for its hits with his compositions “Rat Trap” and “I Don’t Like Mondays”. Geldof co-wrote “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, which was one of the best-selling singles of all time, and starred in Pink Floyd’s 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall as “Pink”.

As a political activist, Geldof is popularly recognized for his activism, especially anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa, where he and Midge Ure founded the charity supergroup Band Aid to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. The two continued to organize the charity super-concert Live Aid the following year and the Live 8 concerts in 2005. He now serves as an adviser to the ONE Campaign, founded by fellow Irishman Bono, and is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP) (a group of 10 distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa). Fathers have also not been left behind. Geldof has also been outspoken for the fathers’ rights movement.

Speaking of his accolades, Geldof was not only appointed an honorary knight K.B.E (Hon.) by Elizabeth, he has also received the Man of Peace title which recognizes individuals who have made “an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace”. Check out for his other many awards and nominations.

Bob Geldof Age

Bob Geldof was born on October 5, 1951. He IS 67 years old as of 2018.

Bob Geldof Family

Bob Geldof (born Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof) was born and raised in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland to Robert and Evelyn Geldof, who passed away when Geldof was 6/7 (sources differ). His paternal grandfather, Zenon Geldof, was a Belgian immigrant and a hotel chef while his paternal grandmother, Amelia Falk, was a British Jew from London.

Education

He attended Blackrock College, where he was bullied for being a poor rugby player and for his middle name, Zenon.

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Geldof’s longtime girlfriend and first wife was Paula Yates (a rock journalist and later became the presenter of the music show The Tube which ran from 1982 to 1987). Yates was known for her interviews on the show The Big Breakfast from 1992. The two met when she became an obsessed fan of The Boomtown Rats during the band’s early days and in 1976, they became a couple. In the same year, the band ones went to Paris to play there, and Yates flew there to suprise him.

They exchanged rings in June 1986 in Las Vegas, with Simon Le Bon (of Duran Duran) acting as Geldof’s best man.

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Before they were married they had their first daughter, Fifi Trixibelle Geldof had their first daughter, Fifi Trixibelle Geldof, born 31 March 1983 (and while Geldof was still conducting an affair with Claire King). She was named Fifi after Bob’s aunt Fifi and Trixibelle because Yates wanted a ‘belle’ in the family.

10 years later after their marriage (, the couple welcomed in more members into te family. They had two more daughters, Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof (known as Peaches Geldof) on 13 March 1989, and Little Pixie Geldof (known as Pixie Geldof) on 17 September 1990. It is said that Pixie was named after a celebrity daughter character from the cartoon Celeb in the satirical magazine Private Eye, itself a lampoon of the names the Geldofs gave to their other children.

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BASCA Gold Badge Awards

Golden Camera, Germany

Irish Film and Television Awards

MTV Video Music Awards (VMA)

Peabody Awards

Bob Geldof Band-Aid

Band Aid is a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists. It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, with an aim in raising money for anti-famine efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” for the Christmas market that year.

Bob Geldof Mondays

“I Don’t Like Mondays” is a song by Irish group The Boomtown Rats. It was released in 1979 as the lead single from their third album, The Fine Art of Surfacing. The song was a N.o 1 single in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks during the summer of 1979, and ranks as the 6th biggest hit of the UK in 1979.

Geldof explained how he wrote the song:

“I was doing a radio interview in Atlanta with [Johnnie] Fingers and there was a telex machine beside me. I read it as it came out. Not liking Mondays as a reason for doing somebody in is a bit strange. I was thinking about it on the way back to the hotel and I just said ‘silicon chip inside her head had switched to overload’. I wrote that down. And the journalists interviewing her said, ‘Tell me why?’ It was such a senseless act. It was the perfect senseless act and this was the perfect senseless reason for doing it. So perhaps I wrote the perfect senseless song to illustrate it. It wasn’t an attempt to exploit tragedy.”

Initially, Geldof had  intentions for the song to be named as B-side, but he changed his mind after the song was successful with audiences on the Rats’ US tour.

Bob Geldof Career

Returning to Ireland in 1975, he became lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, a rock group closely linked with the punk movement.

In 1978, The Boomtown Rats had their first No. 1 single in the UK with “Rat Trap”, the first new wave chart-topper in Britain. One year later, they gained international attention with their second UK No. 1, “I Don’t Like Mondays”. Geldof had written it in the aftermath of Brenda Ann Spencer’s attempted massacre at an elementary school in San Diego, California in 1979. Its single “Up All Night” was a huge hit in the U.S. and its video was played frequently on MTV. Geldof became known as a colourful interview subject.

The Boomtown Rats’ first appearance on Ireland’s The Late Late Show saw Geldof as deliberately brusque to host Gay Byrne and during his interview he attacked Irish politicians and the Catholic Church, which he blamed for many of the country’s problems. He responded to nuns in the audience who tried to shout him down by saying they had “An easy life with no material worries in return for which they gave themselves body and soul to the church”.

The interview caused an uproar, making it impossible for The Boomtown Rats to play in Ireland again. In January 2013, Geldof announced The Boomtown Rats would be reforming to play together for the first time since 1986 at that year’s Isle of Wight Festival in June. They have subsequently announced further tour dates and released a new CD Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats Hits.

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Singles

Bob Geldof Net Worth

Bob Geldof has a net worth of $150 million.

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Your gig at the Irish Village has become a bit of a tradition, hasn’t it?
It has, yeah. You can’t do Paddy’s Day without Geldof showing up! And it’s a fun place, period, you know? I mean I don’t just come out for this gig. I’m out during the year for different things.

When you spoke to us last year, you called Dubai ‘a massive experiment, extremely courageous’. Do you still feel the same?
Yeah. It is a big experiment, and it has been whacked by the global situation. But, you know, there’s no reason why Dubai shouldn’t be able to withstand the credit crunch. I understand about the construction and the buildings, but nonetheless, it’s a very vital part of the world, you know, just as a trading centre. It’s ideally located, it’s already got the hotels, the beaches, the weather, and why wouldn’t you go back there when this all eases? Particularly for Dubai, I think it’ll be affected in the near term, but in the medium term, perhaps not quite so.

You started out as a music writer, didn’t you?
Not really started out. It was just one of the many jobs I had during a very brief period.

Did you interview any of the big stars of the day?
Yep. Elton, George Harrison, Lou Reed, Bryan Adams when he was 16 and he was just a local kid in Vancouver, where I was living for a moment.

“Crosby, Stills and Nash remembered me because I really dissed their gig”

Who else? Eric Clapton? Did they remember you when you made it as a musician yourself? 
Yeah, they did. Especially Crosby, Stills and Nash, because I really dissed their gig — mainly because I was nearly beaten up by their security. I called them a bunch of old hippies! I just couldn’t wait for the punk thing to happen; I just didn’t know it was the punk thing. But Graham Nash — I was on his TV show and he said, ‘You said this?’ And I said ‘yeah’. And he goes, ‘why?’ And I said, ‘come on! It was a shit gig! What do you want? Besides, you nearly beat me up!’ And he said, ‘OK. That would explain it.’ Obviously I got to know these people later in my life, lucky me. George came to a couple of the Rats’ gigs in Oxford, and then I got to play with him one day around at a friend’s house. Amazing, you know? Yeah. I’m very lucky.

Do you ever think about clearing the decks and stripping your career right back to the music?
That’s a very good question. I’ve thought about it, you know, but for like two seconds. I get bored too quickly. The truth is, one feeds into the other. Would I have enough purchase on the African issue if I wasn’t a musician and could use that world to talk about this? No. If I only did the African stuff, would I be bored rigid if I didn’t have the escape and catharsis of music? Yes. I’ll explain exactly how it works. I do business for my stomach, I do politics for my brain, I do music for my soul and I do my family for my heart. There you go!

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