Garry Roberts

Garry Roberts
Roberts performing with The Boomtown Rats in 2017.
Background information
Birth nameGarrick Roberts
Born(1950-06-16)16 June 1950
Dublin, County Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Died9 November 2022(2022-11-09) (aged 72)
GenresRock
InstrumentGuitar
Formerly ofThe Boomtown Rats

Garrick Roberts (16 June 1950 – 9 November 2022) was an Irish musician best known as the lead guitarist with The Boomtown Rats, a band which came into being in 1976. He and Johnnie Fingers (Moylett) had decided to put a band together and, between them, they recruited the other four members, Pete Briquette (bass), Gerry Cott (guitar), Simon Crowe (drums), and singer Bob Geldof.

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