Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Xenon Geldof, KBE (born October 5, 1954 in D?n Laoghaire, County Dublin) is an Irish singer, songwriter, actor and political activist, known simply as Bob Geldof. He is of Irish and Belgian extraction.

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Geldof was educated at Blackrock College near Dublin, a school whose staunch Catholic nationalist ethos he disliked. He started as a music journalist in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for the weekly Georgia Straight publication before coming to fame in the mid-1970s as leader of the Boomtown Rats, a rock group closely linked with the punk movement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2941142.stm In 1978, they had their first Number 1 single with "Rat Trap", which was the first new wave chart-topper in the UK. A follow-up, "I Don't Like Mondays", was equally successful and also controversial, as Geldof wrote it in the aftermath of Brenda Ann Spencer's attempted massacre at her school in San Diego, California at the beginning of 1979.

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