OSLO, Norway (AP) – Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof may get a shot at the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jan Simonsen, a Norwegian lawmaker who has nominating rights for the coveted award, says Geldof should be honored for his efforts to bring attention to world poverty through rock music.

“I have for many years thought that a representative person from the rock environment should get the prize to show rock’s border-breaking character,” Simonsen said Wednesday. “For example, rock is listened to by both Palestinian and Israeli youth. That in itself can create peace.”

Geldof, the former leader of Irish punk group the Boomtown Rats, organized last weekend’s Live 8 concerts to draw attention to poverty in Africa. He also organized the 1985 Live Aid concerts for famine relief.

The deadline for this year’s prize has passed, but Simonsen has until Feb. 1 to make a formal nomination for the 2006 prize.

Nominations can come from previous winners and from the elite levels of academia, law, foreign affairs institutes and national governments.

The award, including $1.5 million, is always presented on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of its founder, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.