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The Live Aid concerts for African famine relief turn 40 on Sunday, July 13, but for organizer Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats ...
With acts including Pete Doherty, The Boomtown Rats and Ezra Collective all set to perform, here are our picks for gigs at the 2025 Fringe.
“Don’t get too precious about your songs,” Lange said. “We’re probably going to tear them apart.” As Elliott recalled, “We didn’t really know what Mutt meant when he said that.
13 Songs You Didn’t Know Were Big Hits Right Now A tour of the more surprising — and kind of anonymous — corners of the current Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
It’s fair to say expectations were high for The Boomtown Rats ’ third album The Fine Art Of Surfacing. Having first broken through with the U.K. Top 5 hit “Looking After No.1” in the ...
The Boomtown Rats itself scored several Top Ten hits in the UK charts during their commercial peak, from 1978 to 79, and their most famous songs, still to this day, are "Rat Trap" (a U.K. #1) and ...
For many fans, the band’s appearance at Rewind will be an opportunity not just to celebrate The Boomtown Rats’ immense legacy, but also to highlight the contemporary relevance of their work as a trail ...
The Boomtown Rats became one of the biggest groups of the late 1970s and 80s, with a string of top ten hits and platinum albums.
Fans of The Boomtown Rats will be delighted to hear the I Don’t Like Mondays stars have announced a new tour which will be celebrating their 50-year anniversary. It began in Ireland in 1975 when ...