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The Boomtown Rats performed the song for Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in 1985. This was the band's final major appearance. This was the band's final major appearance. On singing the line, "And the lesson today is how to die", Geldof paused for 20 seconds while the crowd applauded the significance to those starving in Africa that Live Aid was ...
A second single from the album "House on Fire" made number 24 in the UK singles chart. [9] A third, 'Charmed Lives' failed to chart however. In the U.S., the album was initially rejected by their American label, which instead issued a four-song EP called The Boomtown Rats, featuring four selections from V Deep.
V Deep is the Boomtown Rats's fifth album, and the first to be released as a five-piece band, following the departure of guitarist Gerry Cott. It includes the minor hit single "House on Fire". [ 2 ]
The discography of Irish new wave group The Boomtown Rats consists of seven studio albums, seven compilation albums, 23 singles and three video albums. The Boomtown Rats' debut release was the 1977 single "Lookin' After No. 1" which was originally written by frontman Bob Geldof in 1975 while waiting for his local unemployment office to open in his native Dun Laoghaire then a major port an hour ...
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All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted. "I Don't Like Mondays" (1979) – 4:17 from The Fine Art of Surfacing "This is the World Calling" (1986) (Geldof, Raymond Doom) – 4:23 from Deep in the Heart of Nowhere
The Best of the Boomtown Rats featured 19 of The Boomtown Rats best known work. [1] A DVD was also available. The compilation album peaked at No. 43 in the UK Albums Chart in February 2005.
The digital version of the album features two additional songs, "House On Fire" and "Drag Me Down". [3] During an interview with Zoë Ball on BBC Radio 2, Geldof explained that the record company had asked him to pen some new tracks and he wrote four in total; "The Boomtown Rats", "Back to Boomtown", "Ratified" and "Rat Life". [4]