The man you are referring to as an
actor, Bob Geldof (Sir Bob Geldof, that is), is actually the leader of a band called the Boomtown Rats. He is a singer/musician/song-writer who played the role of the grown-up adult "Pink" in the mostly Roger Waters [Pink Floyd] project, The Wall.
Bob Geldof is quite a conscious thinking and coherent human being himself, I imagine. The Boomtown Rats were an Irish band breaking into the popular culture with
I Don't Like Mondays, being inspired by the band hearing about one of the first "mass shootings at a school" while touring in the US of A (on Turtle Island, that is)
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