The Boomtown Rats

The Boomtown Rats is a music group around the Irish singer Bob Geldof, was established in 1975 in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland.

The original name of the Group was The Nightlife Thugs.

In 1978 the band had a first major hit with the song Rat Trap and had its largest success in 1979 with I Don't Like Mondays. The song was written in response to a shooting by the 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, which indicated that they had done "because they loved not Mondays".

However, the Group knew this success with subsequent singles like Banana Republic and Never in a Million Years do not continue. In 1985 the band went apart, and in 1986 Geldof began a solo career.

Singer Bob Geldof in 1981.

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 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * Pete Briquette-bass guitar (geb. Patrick Cusack, July 2, 1954 in Ireland)
 * Gerry Cott, guitar (born 15 October 1954)
 * Simon Crowe, drums (born 14 april 1955)
 * Johnnie Fingers, keyboard (geb. John Moylett. 1 september 1956) cousin of Pete Briquette.
 * Bob Geldof, vocals (geb. Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof, 5 October 1951)
 * Garry Roberts, guitar/vocals (born 17 June 1954)