Deep in the Heart of Nowhere by Bob Geldof

Deep in the Heart of Nowhere, released in November 1986, was Bob Geldof's first solo album, and it arrived with an odd kind of pressure: the former Boomtown Rats frontman had spent the two years before it organizing Band Aid and Live Aid, and was knighted that same year for his charity work in Africa. Rupert Hine produced it for Mercury, and he wraps Geldof's songs in the glossy, big-sky pop rock of the mid-'80s.

"This Is the World Calling" was the main single, a rousing, earnest sing-along that got a brief burst of sneak-preview rotation on MTV, and "Love Like a Rocket" followed it out. The album itself barely registered, spending a single week at number 79 in the UK. It was remastered in 2005 for the anthology The Great Songs of Indifference, with four bonus tracks.

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