The boomtown rats

The Boomtown Rats are an Irish new wave band that had a series of Irish and UK hits between 1977 and 1985, including 'I Don't Like Mondays', which reached number 1 in the UK singles chart in 1979. The group is led by vocalist Bob Geldof. The other members of the original line-up were Garry Roberts (lead guitar), Johnnie Fingers (keyboard), Pete Briquette (bass), Gerry Cott (guitar) and Simon Crowe (drums). The Boomtown Rats broke up in 1986, but reformed in 2013, without Johnnie Fingers or…

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Bob Geldof, lead singer with Irish band the Boomtown Rats performs on stage at the Manchester Apollo on September 29, 1979.

Boomtown Rats pianist John Moylett has claimed that he has been forced to put his house on the line during a royalty battle with Bob Geldof.

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"His hair long and unruly - he was often ordered from school to get it cut - he was also in thrall to such counter-culture heroes as The Who's wild-armed guitarist Pete Townshend and Small Faces singer Steve Marriott (...) Bob [Geldof] dipped into folk balladeer Woody Guthrie's autobiography and found references to an Oklahoma street gang called the Boomtown Rats.They adopted the name, and thanks to Bob's charismatic presence and distinctive singing voice the Rats rocketed towards the top"

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Pete Briquette and Jane Aire tie the knot in Blackrock, Co. Dublin