Sir Bob Geldof Biography

Sir Bob Geldof, best known for organizing the massive Live Aid spectacle and political activity on behalf of Africa, was the founder of the hugely regarded pop group The Boom Town Rats and has had a 25-year singing/songwriting career. From 1984 through 1986, as the driving force and leader of Band Aid, Live Aid, and Sport Aid, Geldof earned more than $120 million for African famine assistance and planned simultaneous performances in London and Philadelphia to raise �50 million. He remains chairman of the Band Aid Trust. Geldof has received various distinctions for his efforts, including a knighthood in 1986, the UN World Hunger Award, the FAO Medal, the EEC Gold Medal, the Irish Peace Prize, and a number of other foreign state prizes. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times and was appointed a freeman of the City of Newcastle in 1986. An smart businessman, Geldof, together with Charlie Parsons and Waheed Alli, established the multi-award-winning Planet 24. It is a radio and television production firm that has grown to become one of the largest independent television production companies in the UK, with daily broadcasts totaling over 600 hours of UK television each year. Planet 24 Radio has produced a number of popular programmes for all BBC radio stations as well as the BBC World Service. The firm offers all of IRN's daily entertainment production, as well as daily syndicated programming to over 1000 stations in Australia, the United States, the Far East, and Africa. Planet 24's television activities are now extending globally with a cable music partnership in Poland, and Planet 24 America is collaborating with the Disney Corporation on a variety of initiatives. Incredibly well versed, Sir Bob Geldof is not just aware about African famines and humanitarian groups, but also about London and Washington politics. His speeches are both challenging and uplifting, as he stimulates his audiences by discussing his own personal experiences as well as the lessons he learnt from Live Aid.

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