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Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays Live at the Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1981) Boomtown Rats finest moment, I Don't Like Mondays, was a No.1 UK hit in 1979. I
do have fond memories of putting this record on the Jukebox
every time I went for a meal at a local pub with my parents. How I loved
that single, and how I must have annoyed the landlord! THE BOOMTOWN RATS Officially a 70s band, but still performing into the early 80s, The Boomtown Rats achieved a series of UK hits between 1977 and 1981. During the 80s, lead singer Bob Geldof became more famous for organising both the Live Aid concert and the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas" during 1985. All six members of the band were originally from Dun Laoghaire in Ireland. Where did they get the name "Boomtown Rats"? Well it comes comes from a gang in Woody Guthrie's autobiography Bound For Glory. Their biggest hits were I Don't Like Mondays and Rat Trap which both reached No.1 in the UK. Rat Trap was actually the first No.1 by an Irish rock band. Studio Albums: 1977 The Boomtown Rats (#18 - UK) 1978 A Tonic for the Troops (#8 - UK) 1979 The Fine Art of Surfacing (#7 - UK) (#6 - Canada) 1981 Mondo Bongo (#6 - UK) (#22 - Canada) 1982 V Deep (#64 - UK) (#37 Canada) 1984 In The Long Grass (#80 Canada)
Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap (1978) Rat Trap reached #1 in the UK and all of the band's biggest hits were between 1978 and 1980. Their other UK hit singles in the eighties were;
Like Clockwork (#6, 1978) I Don't Like Mondays (#1, 1979) Diamond Smiles (#13, 1979) Someone's Looking at You (#4, 1980) Banana Republic (#3, 1980) The Elephant's Graveyard (#26, 1981) House On Fire (#24, 1982) Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic (1980) Banana Republic was a reggae/ska style tune and the first to be released from the album, Mondo Bongo. It reached number three in the UK charts, but was the band's last Top Ten single. Boomtown Rats performing Someone's Looking at You |
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