Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, is an Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist and occasional actor, and co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?", a song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in reaction to television reports of the 1983–85 famine, in which country?
Bob Geldof Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE (born 5 October 1951), is an Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist and occasional actor. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s, alongside the punk rock movement. The band had Number One hits with his compositions "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays". He co-wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas?", one of the best-selling singles of all time, and starred in Pink Floyd's 1982 film "Pink Floyd – The Wall" as "Pink."
Leopardstown Leopardstown (Irish: "Baile na Lobhar" , meaning "Town of the Lepers" because in the middle ages people with Leprosy were kept here outside the town gates to a avoid infection) is a village in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, county Dublin, Ireland, located at the foot of the Dublin Mountains. A residential suburb in the east of the greater Dublin area, it is divided by the course of the M50 motorway, and adjoins the neighbouring areas of Sandyford, Stepaside, Ballyogan, Foxrock and Stillorgan. Leprosy was common in Dublin in medieval times and in the 14th Century a leper hospital was built near St Stephen's Green. It was later moved out to the Dublin mountains - the area where it was sited became known as Leopardstown.