Solo began his career with a band called The News, which released one 7" single on GTO Records.

[1] Then he formed the pop group Classix Nouveaux, with former members of X-Ray Spex, which became associated with the burgeoning New Romantic movement.

Classix Nouveaux had number one hits in Poland, Portugal, Israel, Iceland and other countries in the early 1980s.

Following a pilgrimage to San Damiano in Italy, Solo embraced the Roman Catholic faith of his childhood.

[3] In 1999, he moved to Chicago, where he works with Catholic teenagers in the United States and other parts of the world, speaking on matters of faith and justice, and giving concerts and youth retreats.