How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell

The name is habitual and ubiquitous. It is woven into three decades of the national narrative and its cultural soap opera. Ask people have they heard of him and all will answer in the affirmative. Ask them what he does and all will have a separate answer. Ask do they have an opinion of him and, for good or ill, most will. Ask how that opinion was formed and they don‘t quite know. Whistle one of his tunes and most will remember it but they won‘t know who wrote it. Bob Geldof is the most famous secret song writer in Britain.

Fresh from his recent Australian appearances on Today and Sunrise as well as several exclusive shows, it‘s time to reacquaint with Bob Geldof through his brand new album. Entitled ?How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell? it is his first album since 2001‘s ?Sex, Age & Death? and is his fifth album as a solo artist (his eleventh if you include his work in the Boomtown Rats). The album features 10 new Geldof compositions recorded with his band in his home and in various friends‘ studios and produced by his long-time collaborator Pete Briquette.