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Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof K.B.E, known as Bob Geldof or Sir Bob, was born on 5th October 1951, in Dun Laioghaire, Ireland to Catholic parents Robert and Evelyn. His father, Robert, was the son of a Belgian immigrant.\n

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Geldof attended an exclusive private school in Dublin where he was subject to bullying. This must have influenced his subsequent thirst for justice for people who suffer through what he saw as needless poverty.\n

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He left school to pursue a variety of jobs as a slaughter man, a road worker and in a food factory. He then worked in Vancouver as a journalist on a weekly music magazine.\n

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In 1975, he came back to Ireland and became the lead singer in the punk band \u2013 The Boomtown Rats.\n

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In 1976 he met Paula Yates \u2013 a rock journalist and presenter of The Tube. \n

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In 1984, his career changed direction with the advent of his political and hugely successful pop concert Live Aid.\n

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Their daughter, Fifi Trixibelle, was born in 1983. In 1986, Bob and Paula married. They had two more daughters, Peaches in March 1989, and Pixie in September 1990.\n

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Geldof and Yates divorced in 1996, and Paula had a daughter with the Australian singer Michael Hutchence. Following the death of Hutchence in 1997, Geldof obtained full custody of his 3 daughters. He became a strong advocate of fathers' rights. Sadly, Paula died in 2000, and Geldof adopted Paula's daughter Tiger Lily so she could grow up with her half sisters.\n

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Geldof now lives in Battersea, South London with the French actress Jeanne Marine. \n

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Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof K.B.E was born on 5th October 1951, in Dun Laioghaire, Ireland.\n

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He attended private school in Dublin, where he was subject to bullying. He left school to pursue a variety of jobs before moving to Vancouver in Canada as a journalist on a weekly music magazine.\n

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In 1975, he came back to Ireland and became the lead singer in what was to become the very successful punk band \u2013 The Boomtown Rats.\n

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In 1984, his career changed direction with the advent of his political and hugely successful pop concert Live Aid.\n

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In 1996, Geldof was divorced. A year later, he obtained full custody of his three daughters and became a strong advocate of fathers' rights.\n

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