BOB GELDOF and THE BOOMTOWN RATS-I dont like Mondays

Geldof was born Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland, to parents of Catholic extraction. He attended Blackrock College, near Dublin, a school whose staunch Catholic nationalist ethos he disliked. After work as a slaughterman, road navvy and pea canner, he started as a music journalist in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, for the weekly publication Georgia Straight. Upon returning to Ireland in 1975, he became the lead singer of the band The Boomtown Rats, a rock group closely linked with the punk movement.In 1978, The Boomtown Rats had their first No. 1 single in the UK with "Rat Trap", which was the first New Wave chart-topper in that country. In 1979, the group shot to international fame with their second UK No. 1, "I Don't Like Mondays".[2] This was equally successful, as well as controversial; Geldof wrote it in the aftermath of Brenda Ann Spencer's attempted massacre at an elementary school across the street from her house in San Diego, California, at the beginning of 1979.

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[Donatella Fagioli]

this song was dedicated to a school drama....but today it happends again!!

poor little children in heaven now :-(

God bless all the parents of them

rip from belgium xxx

[ts4437]

The worlds least talented person huh........ Tell me, what do you do for a living? Complain about other people?

[IsabelDhampir82]

Yo lo conocía por la película The Wall y sus causas humanitarias más el ''escandalo'' por el suicidio de Michael Hutchense (una idiotez) pero hasta ahora no había oído su música, Tiena algo especial, no se bien que, pero hay algo y me gusta, tiene fuerza...

[MichaelD8393]

Outta curiosity is Midge Ure the guy with the ponytail on guitar behind Bob? It sure looks like him.

[abeautifultomorrow]

Bob Geldof is one of my heroes both musically and humanitarian!

[Ziggy Lazer]

awesome performance, wish I was there.

[jay air]

reminds me much of my past.like it!

[beatlin4ever]

i wonder what he would say/sing if he suddenly became pink from The Wall movie, adn was his neo nazi form. i think it'd be pretty funny

[aquagrl63]

Most mentally ill people aren't violent. Gun violence isn't just caused by psychotic killers. Accidents occur when there are guns in a home. Domestic violence is made much worse by the presence of a gun. Blaming the mentally ill won't solve this problem. We don't even know what was wrong with Adam Lanza. Maybe we'll never know why he did it. It's like in the song: "Tell me why?", and she never gives a real answer.

[Leo Veensma]

does enebody else have seen freddie mercury at 00:03?

[t busdd]

nothin wrong with his vocals...geldof also did a pretty good job om comfortably numb w/ d gilmore....

[BeAsTm0aD]

Ah yeh, friggin thumb in the back loop.