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The Boomtown Rats are an Irish rock / new wave band originally formed in Dublin in 1975. [ 4 ][ 5 ] Between 1977 and 1985, they had a series of Irish and UK hits including " Like Clockwork ", " Rat Trap ", " I Don't Like Mondays " and " Banana Republic ". The original line-up comprised six musicians; five from Dún Laoghaire in County Dublin ...
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 ...
Audio. "I Don't Like Mondays" on YouTube. " I Don't Like Mondays " is a song by Irish new wave group the Boomtown Rats about the Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego. It was released in 1979 as the lead single from their third album, The Fine Art of Surfacing. The song was a number-one single in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks ...
The Rolling Stone Album Guide. [4] The Boomtown Rats is the debut album by Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats, released in September 1977. [1] It included the Rats' first hit single, "Lookin' After No. 1", as well as the subsequent single, "Mary of the 4th Form". [1] The album peaked at No. 18 in the UK Albums Chart in 1977.
Citizens of Boomtown. (2020) Citizens of Boomtown is the seventh studio album by Irish band The Boomtown Rats, released on 13 March 2020 via BMG. [1] It is the band's first album since 1984's In the Long Grass, and the first album to be recorded as four-piece band, as the keyboardist Johnnie Fingers didn't return when the band was reunited in ...
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof KBE (/ ˈɡɛldɒf /; [ 1 ] born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, who achieved popularity as part of the punk rock movement. The band had UK number one hits with his co ...
The Fine Art of Surfacing. (1979) A Tonic for the Troops is the second album by Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, released in June 1978. [2] A Tonic for the Troops peaked at No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart in 1978. [3] The album included the singles "She's So Modern", "Like Clockwork" and "Rat Trap". [2] ". She's So Modern" reached number 12 on ...
In the Long Grass was the sixth studio album by The Boomtown Rats, released in 1984 in the UK and 1985 in the US. [1] It was the band's last studio material for well over three decades until 2020's Citizens of Boomtown. The Boomtown Rats' least commercially favourable effort, it failed to appear altogether in the UK Albums Chart, but did reach ...