It started when I found a magazine 6 or 7 years ago between my mother's magazines there where a few pages about Bob in it I cut out the pictures, read the artickle he was sympathetic immediately the I brougth the One wild night album from Bon Jovi which contained  Geldof's I don't like Mondays and I liked that song and started to collect things about Bob it especially pictures.

A grand total of!......one year, two months (approx).  ahem.

I saw him in The Wall about 2.5 years ago, but I didn't become a true 'fan' until around October of last year.  It was thanks to George Michael really, b/c I was looking at his website, and a little Bob Geldof/Live Aid pop-up ad flew glided across my computer screen.  I liked the picture (similar to Johanna's avatar) and made the connection that he was a decent actor in The Wall, so I started researching all I could about him through the web, books, videos, music, and other forms of media.  After listening to little Amazon.com clips of Boomtown Rats music, I was hooked to his music ("Like Clockwork" was my favorite clip!), and started buying BTR & BG solo albums.  After reading a combination of post-Paula-tragedy interviews and "Is That It?,"  I was hooked to the man himself - as in, wanting to find out more about him, and, I found him extremely interesting & had a lot of qualities I liked (that I read). 

Good/unique question Jules

On July 13th this year, I celebrated my 20th anniversary as a Geldof fan. Does that make me number 3? Oh no, it's not a competition

I spent the day at a U2 concert in Amsterdam, where Bono reminded everybody of what happened on that day in 1985.

ha, well for a start... not as long as most of you!  but umm, I guess I have been a fan for around a year now...

I love to hear about all fans, experienced or not (I refuse to use that dirty word o*d) but I'm VERY happy to hear about the new additions to the fandom

it all started for me *takes deep breath*

bout a year and a half ago we were asked to do a presentation on the person we admired..... i really didn't know who to do so about the night before we had to do the presentation my mum and I watched a documentary on band aid and found out about bob.. so i thought hmmmm... this guy is pretty admirable so i did Mr. Geldof for my speech thingy. After the presentation i didn't think about him again.                            I watched the live 8 concert and thought it was great and was afterwards severely disappointed that I didn’t text in for the tickets (tho I found out just a couple of days ago that me mum had in fact texted in). So about 2 weeks after I went shopping with my friends one day and needed to spend some hmv gift vouchers so I got my first bob/ boomtown rats’ selection album (loudmouth). **And I have been a huge fan ever since

**alternative ending:

“And as they say the rest is history”

27 years as well. Good Lord, almost my whole lifetime!

Since I Don't Like Mondays (1978?) the first single I remeber buying.  I then swapped Kelly Marie's Feels Like I'm In Love for Someone's Looking At You (which my friend who I swapped with nicked from his older brother) and was given Rat Trap by my older sister.

Several years later I bought The Fine Art Of Surfacing on vinyl for £1.99 and having played it went straight back to the shop to buy the rest of the albums (same price apart from In The Long Grass which hadn't been released yet).