Garry Roberts, a founding member and guitarist for The Boomtown Rats, has died at the age of 72.

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The Boomtown Rats are an Irish rock band originally formed in Dublin in 1975.

Garry Roberts, lead guitarist and founding member of The Boomtown Rats, has died. The band’s singer Bob Geldof, bassist Pete Briquette, and drummer Simon Crowe announced the guitarist’s death ...

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Garry Roberts, the founding member and lead guitarist of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats, has died. He was 72.

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Boomtown Rats guitarist Garry Roberts has died age 72, the band have confirmed. In the announcement, the band described Garry as "the guy who summed up the sense of who The Rats are".

Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats have announced the death of founding member Garry Roberts. A statement posted on their Facebook page this evening said: "It is with very great grief that the ...