The Boomtown Rats is the debut album by Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, released in September 1977. It included the Rats' first hit single, "Lookin'...
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The Boomtown Rats are an Irish rock/new wave band originally formed in Dublin in 1975. Between 1977 and 1985, they had a series of Irish and UK hits including...
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Citizens of Boomtown is the seventh studio album by Irish band The Boomtown Rats, released on 13 March 2020 via BMG. It is the band's first album since 1984's...
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The discography of Irish new wave group The Boomtown Rats consists of seven studio albums, seven compilation albums, 23 singles and three video albums...
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Loudmouth – The Best of Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats is a 1994 greatest hits compilation album from Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, consisting mostly...
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The Best of the Boomtown Rats featured 19 of The Boomtown Rats best known work. A DVD was also available. The compilation album peaked at No. 43 in the...
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the Troops is the second album by Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, released in June 1978. A Tonic for the Troops peaked at No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart...
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The Boomtown Rats' Greatest Hits is a compilation album of The Boomtown Rats' singles on Columbia Records from 1979 to 1985. All songs were written by...
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V Deep (redirect from Up All Night (The Boomtown Rats song))
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...
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In the Long Grass is the sixth studio album by The Boomtown Rats, released in 1984 in the UK and 1985 in the US. It was the band's last studio material...
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Mondo Bongo (redirect from The Elephant's Graveyard (Guilty))
was the Boomtown Rats' fourth album. It peaked at No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart in February 1981, and No. 116 in the US Billboard 200. This is the band's...
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The Fine Art of Surfacing is the third album by Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, released on 5 October 1979. The album peaked at No. 7 on the UK Albums...
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Boomtown: Classic Rats Hits is the fifth greatest hits album by Irish band The Boomtown Rats. It was released by Virgin EMI on 9 September 2013. The album...
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Banana Republic (song) (redirect from Banana Republic (The Boomtown Rats song))
Republic" was the first single from The Boomtown Rats' album Mondo Bongo. It peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart. Breaking from the band's previous...
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I Don't Like Mondays (category The Boomtown Rats songs)
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...
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Garry Roberts (category The Boomtown Rats members)
9 November 2022) was an Irish musician best known as the lead guitarist with The Boomtown Rats, a band which came into being in 1976. He and Johnnie...
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Pete Briquette (category The Boomtown Rats members)
1954), known by the stage name Pete Briquette, is an Irish bassist, record producer and composer. He is a member of the Boomtown Rats and has also played...
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Mutt Lange (category Zambian emigrants to the United Kingdom)
Def Leppard, The Michael Stanley Band, The Boomtown Rats, Foreigner, Michael Bolton, Heart, The Cars, Bryan Adams, Huey Lewis and the News, Billy Ocean...
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Diamond Smiles (category The Boomtown Rats songs)
"Diamond Smiles" was the second single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing. It was the follow-up to their successful single "I Don't...
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Johnnie Fingers (category The Boomtown Rats members)
Fingers, is an Irish keyboardist and co-founding member of the new wave band the Boomtown Rats. He was notable for his attire of striped pyjamas on stage...
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Someone's Looking at You (category The Boomtown Rats songs)
Looking at You" was the third and final single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing. It peaked at number two on the Irish Singles Chart...
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Lookin' After No. 1 (category The Boomtown Rats songs)
After No. 1" is the first single by the Boomtown Rats, from their self-titled debut album. The single was released in August 1977 after the band had performed...
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punk band the Boomtown Rats, after both of her parents died when she was a young child. She is a singer-songwriter whose 2022 debut album Tragic Tiger's...
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"Mary of the 4th Form" is the second single by The Boomtown Rats. It was the first song taken from the band's first album The Boomtown Rats but the single...
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Rat Trap (category The Boomtown Rats songs)
Trap" is a song by the Boomtown Rats, released in October 1978 as the third and final single from the band's second album A Tonic for the Troops. It reached...
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Gary Barnacle discography (section Studio albums)
Grass by The Boomtown Rats (album) 1984 All the Rage by General Public (album) 1984 This Last Night in Sodom by Soft Cell (album) 1984 The Art of Tearing...
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Like Clockwork (category The Boomtown Rats songs)
"Like Clockwork" is a single by The Boomtown Rats. It was the band's first to reach the Top Ten in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 6. Described as...
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Gerry Cott (category The Boomtown Rats members)
Irish guitarist and songwriter, who was a co-founder of the Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats. He started playing flamenco guitar when he was 11 years...
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Bob Geldof (redirect from Fuck the address, let's get the numbers!)
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...
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is the fourth album by The Boomtown Rats. Mondo Bongo may also refer to: "Mondo Bongo", a song by Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros from their album Global...
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