Following their reunion in 2013, the Rats—Geldof, guitarist Garry Roberts, bassist Pete Briquette and drummer Simon Crowe—released Citizens of Boomtown last month, their first new studio album ...

In early 2020, The Boomtown Rats' year was shaping up to be a blockbuster. The Irish band — led by frontman and activist Bob Geldof, who later became known as the co-organizer of Live Aid and co ...

The Irish singer songwriter and political activist lost his daughter Peaches in 2014 and asked himself 'what could you have ...

To mark the Live Aid anniversary, the BBC and CNN have co-produced a documentary series, “Live Aid: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took ...

Elsewhere in the interview, he looks back at the first Boomtown Rats show in October 1975. “A girl out of 30 people in the crowd walked over [at the end] and said she wanted to shag me,” he says.

Irish singer-songwriter and political activist Bob Geldof called Elon Musk and President Donald Trump “thugs” during the 40th anniversary event of Live Aid, to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopi ...

Long ago superseded by Bob Geldof's marginally more mature and statesmanlike incarnations, Boomtown Bob is back, at least for the next month. Almost 30 years after the Boomtown Rats split, earlier ...

Bob Geldof is to be reunited with the Boomtown Rats for the first time in more than 25 years at a festival this summer. The band, famous for the hit singles "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays ...

Bob Geldof and the re-formed Boomtown Rats will talk about their legendary punk band in a new feature doc, “Boomtown.” It is one of the first two films from a new music producer-distributor ...

Bob Geldof calls out Trump, J.D. Vance, and Elon Musk while reflecting on the loss of unity and the changing role of pop ...

‘I grabbed hold of it, and the rhetoric of change was rock and roll, the platform for change was rock and roll, the desirability, the inevitability of change was rock and roll.’ BV: You’ve ...

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