The Boomtown Rats are an Irish 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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Mutt Lange (category Zambian emigrants to the United Kingdom)
Band, The Boomtown Rats, Foreigner, Michael Bolton, The Cars, Bryan Adams, Huey Lewis and the News, Billy Ocean, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, The Corrs,...
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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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The Fine Art of Surfacing is the third album by Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, released in June 1979. The album peaked at No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart...
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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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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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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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Tonic for 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...
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Irish singer-songwriter and activist Bob Geldof of Irish punk band the Boomtown Rats, after both of her parents died when she was a young child. She is...
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Simon Crowe (category The Boomtown Rats members)
the drummer and backing vocalist of the Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats. The original name of the Boomtown Rats was the "Nightlife Thugs". The name...
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In the Long Grass was 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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Band Aid (band) (category Development charities based in the United Kingdom)
Geldof, who was then lead singer of the Irish band the Boomtown Rats. The BBC played a major role in capturing the poverty affecting Ethiopian citizens...
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Velvet Goldmine The Rats, the 2009 revival of the Boomtown Rats A short story in the Argentine anthology film Wild Tales (film) The Rats (play), a five-act...
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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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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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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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Floyd's 1979 album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters. The Boomtown Rats vocalist Bob Geldof made his...
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and Lucio Dalla (1979) "Banana Republic" (song), a 1980 single by The Boomtown Rats "Banana Republics", a song by Steve Goodman, Jim Rothermel, and Steve...
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Republica toured the United Kingdom in support of the Boomtown Rats "Ratlife" tour. Sprackling worked with the Cure, appearing on the track "Just Say Yes"...
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2008 in the British society magazine Tatler, along with Peaches Geldof, daughter of the Boomtown Rats' Bob Geldof, and Leah Wood, daughter of the Rolling...
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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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Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego) (category 1979 mass shootings in the United States)
the day," which inspired Bob Geldof and Johnnie Fingers to write the Boomtown Rats song "I Don't Like Mondays." Brenda Ann Spencer (born April 3, 1962)...
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for the day; the event was promoted by Jim Aiken. The concert included the last performance by The Boomtown Rats until they reformed in 2013. The purpose...
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Rat Trap (category The Boomtown Rats songs)
"Rat Trap" is a single by The Boomtown Rats which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1978, the first single by a punk or...
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the moment she visited Hutchence's body in the morgue. Yates met Geldof in the early days of the Boomtown Rats. They began a romantic relationship in 1976...
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