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81 relations: A Tonic for the Troops, Alternative rock, Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats Hits, Ballyjamesduff, Banana Republic (song), Band Aid (band), BBC, Billboard Hot 100, Bob Geldof, Bound for Glory (book), Brentwood Festival, Bridge (music), Celtic music, Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego), Columbia Records, Compilation album, County Cavan, County Dublin, Dún Laoghaire, Diamond Smiles, Diane (1927 song), Digital Spy, Duran Duran, Electric Light Orchestra, Ensign Records, Francesco Cameli, Fuji Rock Festival, Garry Roberts, Gerry Cott, Greatest hits album, Hello (band), Herman's Hermits, Hit record, Hit single, I Don't Like Mondays, In the Long Grass, Instrumental, Johnnie Fingers, Kirsty MacColl, Knott's Berry Farm, Lead vocalist, Lieutenant Pigeon, Like Clockwork, Live 8, Live Aid, Lookin' After No. 1, Martin C. Strong, Mary of the 4th Form, Mercury Records, Mondo Bongo, ..., Music journalism, New wave music, NME, Oxford Street, Pete Briquette, Pop punk, Post-punk, Punk rock, Rat Trap, Record chart, Record Retailer, Remaster, Rio (Duran Duran album), Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Rock music, Self Aid, She's So Modern, Simon Crowe, Simon Le Bon, Someone's Looking at You, The Animals, The Bachelors, The Boomtown Rats (album), The Fine Art of Surfacing, The Hollies, Top 40, UK Singles Chart, V Deep, Vertigo Records, Woody Guthrie, 100 Club. Expand index (31 more) »
A Tonic for the Troops
A Tonic for the Troops is the second album by The Boomtown Rats.
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.
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Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats Hits
Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats Hits is the fifth greatest hits album by Irish band The Boomtown Rats.
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Ballyjamesduff
Ballyjamesduff is a small town (population 2,240) in County Cavan, Ireland.
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Banana Republic (song)
"Banana Republic" was the first single from The Boomtown Rats' album Mondo Bongo.
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Band Aid (band)
Band Aid is a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Bob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof, (born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist and occasional actor.
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Bound for Glory (book)
Bound for Glory is the partially fictionalized autobiography of folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie.
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Brentwood Festival
The Brentwood Festival is an annual music festival held at the Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, Essex every July.
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Bridge (music)
In music, especially western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section.
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Celtic music
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe.
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Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego)
The Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States.
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Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Compilation album
A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.
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County Cavan
County Cavan (Contae an Chabháin) is a county in Ireland.
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County Dublin
County Dublin (Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath or Contae Átha Cliath) is a county in Ireland.
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Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire is a suburban coastal town in County Dublin, Ireland, about 12 km (7.5 miles) south of Dublin city centre.
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Diamond Smiles
"Diamond Smiles" was the second single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing.
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Diane (1927 song)
"Diane" - also known as Diane (I'm in Heaven When I See You Smile)- is a song by Ernö Rapée and Lew Pollack, originally written as a theme song for the 1927 silent movie Seventh Heaven.
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Digital Spy
Digital Spy is a British-based entertainment, TV and movies website and brand, and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.
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Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978.
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Electric Light Orchestra
The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970, by songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan.
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Ensign Records
Ensign Records was started in 1976 by London-born Nigel Grainge, as a record label distributed by Phonogram Inc. Grainge is the elder brother of Universal Music Group Chairman, Sir Lucian Grainge.
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Francesco Cameli
Francesco Cameli was a sailor from Italy, who represented his country at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Fuji Rock Festival
Fuji Rock Festival is an annual rock festival held in Naeba Ski Resort, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
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Garry Roberts
Garry Roberts (born Garrick Roberts, 16 June 1950, Dublin, Ireland) His date of birth is variously cited elsewhere as either 15 or 16 June 1954 is the former lead guitarist with the Irish band, The Boomtown Rats, which came into being in 1976.
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Gerry Cott
Gerry Cott (born 15 October 1954, in Dublin, Ireland) was a guitarist and songwriter with the Irish new wave band, The Boomtown Rats.
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Greatest hits album
A greatest hits album, sometimes called a "best of" album or a catalog album, is a compilation of songs by a particular artist or band.
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Hello (band)
Hello is an English glam rock band.
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Herman's Hermits
Herman's Hermits are an English beat rock band, formed in Manchester in 1964.
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Hit record
A hit record is an audio recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" (appeared on) one of the popular chart listings.
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Hit single
A hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular.
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I Don't Like Mondays
"I Don't Like Mondays" is a song by Irish band The Boomtown Rats about the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego.
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In the Long Grass
In the Long Grass was their sixth and final studio album by The Boomtown Rats, released in 1984 in the UK and 1985 in the US.
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Instrumental
An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a Big Band setting.
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Johnnie Fingers
Johnnie Fingers (born John Peter Moylett, 10 September 1956) is an Irish keyboardist and co founding member (along with Bob Geldof) of the new wave band, The Boomtown Rats.
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Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was an English singer and songwriter.
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Knott's Berry Farm
Knott’s Berry Farm is a amusement park in Buena Park, California, United States, owned by Cedar Fair.
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Lead vocalist
The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.
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Lieutenant Pigeon
Lieutenant Pigeon are an English novelty musical group popular in the early 1970s, originating from Coventry.
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Like Clockwork
"Like Clockwork" is a single by The Boomtown Rats.
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Live 8
Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa.
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Live Aid
Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative.
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Lookin' After No. 1
"Lookin' After No.
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Martin C. Strong
Martin Charles Strong (born 1960 in Musselburgh) is a Scottish music historian known for compiling discographies of popular music including The Great Rock Discography.
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Mary of the 4th Form
"Mary of the 4th Form" is the second single by The Boomtown Rats.
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Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Mondo Bongo
Mondo Bongo was The Boomtown Rats' fourth album.
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Music journalism
Music journalism (or "music criticism") is media criticism and reporting about popular music topics, including pop music, rock music, and related styles.
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New wave music
New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.
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NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.
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Oxford Street
Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus.
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Pete Briquette
Patrick Martin Cusack (born 2 July 1954), known by the stage name Pete Briquette, is an Irish bassist, record producer and composer.
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Pop punk
Pop punk (also known as punk-pop) is a music genre that fuses elements of pop music with punk rock.
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Post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Rat Trap
"Rat Trap" is a single by The Boomtown Rats, which reached No.
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Record chart
A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.
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Record Retailer
Record Retailer was a trade newspaper for the UK record industry.
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Remaster
Remaster (also digital remastering and digitally remastered) refers to enhancing the quality of the sound or of the image, or both, of previously created recordings, either audiophonic, cinematic, or videographic.
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Rio (Duran Duran album)
Rio is the second studio album by English new wave/synthpop band Duran Duran, originally released worldwide on 10 May 1982.
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Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Robert John "Mutt" Lange (born 11 November 1948) is a South African record producer and songwriter.
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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Self Aid
Self Aid was a benefit concert for unemployment held in Dublin, Ireland on 17 May 1986.
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She's So Modern
"She's So Modern" is a song by The Boomtown Rats.
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Simon Crowe
Simon Crowe (born April 14, 1955, Dublin, Ireland) is one of the current drummers for the Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats.
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Simon Le Bon
Simon John Charles Le Bon (born 27 October 1958) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and lyricist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the band Duran Duran and its offshoot, Arcadia.
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Someone's Looking at You
"Someone's Looking at You" was the third and final single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing.
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The Animals
The Animals are an English rhythm and blues and rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s.
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The Bachelors
The Bachelors are a popular music group, originating from Dublin, Ireland.
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The Boomtown Rats (album)
The Boomtown Rats is The Boomtown Rats' debut album and included the Rats' first hit single, "Lookin' After No. 1", as well as the subsequent single, "Mary of the 4th Form".
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The Fine Art of Surfacing
The Fine Art of Surfacing was The Boomtown Rats' third album and contained the hit-single releases, "I Don't Like Mondays", "Diamond Smiles" and "Someone's Looking at You".
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The Hollies
The Hollies are a British pop/rock group best known for their pioneering and distinctive three-part vocal harmony style.
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Top 40
In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.
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UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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V Deep
V Deep was The Boomtown Rats' fifth album, and the first to be released after guitarist Gerry Cott left the group.
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Vertigo Records
Vertigo Records is a record company, which originated in the United Kingdom.
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Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically.
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100 Club
The 100 Club is a music venue located at 100 Oxford Street, London, England, which has been hosting live music since 24 October 1942.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boomtown_Rats
