Biography
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof is an Irish singer-songwriter, political activist, television producer and entrepreneur. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as the 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 film Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982).
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Awards & recognition
- Great Golden Medal of Honour — Services to the Republic of Austria · 2025
- Patron’s Medal · 2016
- M100 Media Award · 2007
- North–South Prize · 2005
- Amadeus Austrian Music Awards
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- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Peabody Awards
- Steiger Award
- The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal
Filmography16 titles
Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
Queen: Champions of the World
The Greatest Night in Pop
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Top Gear
Bernard and the Genie
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
Sketches of Frank Gehry
New York Doll
Starsuckers
Punk in London
Wham!: Last Christmas Unwrapped
Quintessentially Irish
The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats