Search:

battlebots robot combat build robot fighting robots robot weapons robot competition rovio robot robot wars



BOB GELDOF and THE BOOMTOWN RATS-I dont like Mondays

Robot Building and Competition Videos
Robot Building and Competition Videos Robot Building and Competition Videos
Robot Building and Competition Videos

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.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Author: rhoda0103

Length: 05:26
Rating: 4.78
Views: 45961

Tags: Concert  

Video Url:


Embed Code:

Video Comments

Janaina2108 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
My favorite band... ♥
tunellord20 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
cause most people hate mondays :)
pig199fly200 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Bob spent all that time and energy raising money and awareness of famine in Africa ~ the fellow could use a sandwich himself.
jan022564 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
This song was kind of prophetic ....who knew when that girl shot those people in San Diego it would be the beginning of school shootings across America, now even other countries....I remember The "rats being banned from playing in 80?ish because the song was shocking....damn... the truth is shocking
Tiffy616 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
then the text would make no sens 0.o why should fathers world be shocked when its only monday ?? and why should he sing about this girl whos gonna make them stay at home ?? ^^ bit weird
elsalvsAngles (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
I really had no idea what this song was about till now (28 yrs later!!!!), actually till I seen a vid by Sundaegirl2004, I always tought it was about just hating mondays cause it's after the weekend, weird, oh well always learning
markf9572 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
A great performance so much passion and emotion. And what an amazing day July 13th 1985 was!
doctorcatsburger (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Those people are Crazy, Bob Geldof is the real stuff
KafkaCrow (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
I can't stand this man. He's a fucking Tory sap.
DukeStarbuckle (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
I like this song because it reminds me of the eighties.But Geldof is living proof that you don't have to sing well to be a famous "musician".On another video with David Gilmour, Geldof butchered a Pink Floyd tune and actually had to have a lyric sheet to "sing" it. I think he was faking. He was in their movie and must have heard the song more times than most of us have. I've got a feeling he's just jealous of Floyd's success. Pathetic.


Robot Building and Competition Videos © 2008 Logan Bot All Rights Reserved.