He started his career with the band in 1975 but released his debut solo album in 1986.
He also played Pink in the film for The Wall by Pink Floyd.
Discography:
- Deep in the Heart of Nowhere (1986)
- The Vegetarians of Love (1990)
- The Happy Club (1992)
- Sex, Age & Death (1991)
- How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell (2010)
The Vegetarians of Tropes:
- Boarding School: He describes his experiences at a Catholic boarding school in Ireland during The '70s in his memoirs. It was not a pleasant experience to put it mildly, and contributed greatly to his disenchantment with the Catholic Church.
- Grapes of Luxury: In his autobiography Is That It? he recalls an anecdote from his childhood. Because the family almost never ate grapes (they were too expensive), young Bob decided he'd give up grapes for Lent. It backfired, though, when his dad bought grapes for the family.
- My Nayme Is: "Attitude Chicken" features a girlfriend, name of...Ahknne?Yes, my girlfriend's name is Anne, but she says the K is silent
Put the H after the A or she gets really violent - Non-Appearing Title: "Great Song of Indifference" which is also The Something Song with Lyrical Dissonance.
- Ode to Apathy: "The Great Song of Indifference" is about how the singer doesn't care about anything at all.
- Poor Man's Porn: In the book of the TV series Geldof In Africa, he refers to childhood memories of how Africa was portrayed to him as a youngster... including the fact that the National Geographic gave him the first pictures of naked women amongst its inhabitants—despite the otherwise strictly Catholic educational establishment he was attending, they let it fly because the National Geographic was educational!.
- The Something Song: "The Great Song of Indifference".