The Boomtown Rats (album)
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The Boomtown Rats was The Boomtown Rats
' first album and included the Rat's first hit single, "Lookin' After No. 1
", as well as the subsequent single, "Mary of the 4th Form
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The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats were an Irish punk rock band that had a series of Irish and UK hits between 1977 and 1985. They were led by vocalist Bob Geldof.-Biography:All six members were originally from Dún Laoghaire, Ireland...
' first album and included the Rat's first hit single, "Lookin' After No. 1
Lookin' After No. 1
"Lookin' After No. 1" is the first single by The Boomtown Rats. It appears on their eponymous debut album The Boomtown Rats. The single was released in August 1977 after the band had performed a five date tour supporting Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Lookin' After No...
", as well as the subsequent single, "Mary of the 4th Form
Mary of the 4th Form
"Mary of the 4th Form" is the second single by The Boomtown Rats. It was the first song taken from the band's first album The Boomtown Rats but the single version is different from that on the album and 19 seconds longer. On French and Dutch releases of the single, the punkier, rock'n'roll song "Do...
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Track listing
All songs were written by Bob GeldofBob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...
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- "Lookin' After No. 1"
- "Neon Heart"
- "Joey's on the Street Again"
- "Never Bite the Hand that Feeds"
- "Mary of the 4th Form"
- "(She's Gonna) Do You In"
- "Close as You'll Ever Be"
- "I Can Make It If You Can"
- "Kicks"
2005 bonus tracks
- "Doin' It Right" (1975 Live Demo)
- "My Blues Away" (1975 Live Demo)
- "A Second Time" (1975 Live Demo)
- "Fanzine Hero" (1975 Live Demo) - kicks off with a hard edged punk attack but breaks into a boogie woogie piano solo interlude reprised at the end.
- "Barefootin'" (Cover of the Robert Parker song recorded Live in Moran's Hotel, Dublin, 1975)
- "Mary of the 4th Form" (Single Version)
Personnel
- Bob GeldofBob GeldofRobert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...
– vocals, saxophone - Pete BriquettePete BriquettePete Briquette is the stage name of Patrick Cusack . His pseudonym refers to the fact that he hails from the Irish countryside; peat briquettes are a type of refined turf burned in fires instead of coal.-Boomtown Rats:He was the bass guitarist, backing vocalist, occasional songwriter, and sometime...
– bass, vocals - Gerry CottGerry CottGerry Cott was a guitarist and songwriter with the Irish new wave band, The Boomtown Rats.He started playing flamenco guitar when he was 11 years old....
– guitar - Johnnie Fingers – keyboards, vocals
- Simon CroweSimon CroweSimon Crowe was the drummer for the Irish new wave bandThe Boomtown Rats.The original name of the Boomtown Rats was the "Nightlife Thugs". The name Boomtown Rats was taken from a novel entitled Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie.The Boomtown Rats had eighteen hit singles in the UK, including "Rat...
– drums, vocals - Garry RobertsGarry RobertsGarry Roberts is the former lead guitarist with the Irish band, The Boomtown Rats, which came into being in 1976...
– guitar, vocals