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Boomtown Rats guitarist Garry Roberts has died aged 72, the band has confirmed.
The Irish rock group announced the news in a statement that described the musician as ‘the guy who summed up the sense of who The Rats are’.
Roberts was a founding member of the band, which formed in Dublin in 1975 fronted by lead singer Bob Geldof.
‘It is with a very heavy heart that the members of Boomtown Rats announce the death this morning of Garry Roberts,’ the statement read.