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28/07/1979 'I Don't Like Mondays' goes #1 in the UK

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Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (Live SPOB 1981)

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The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (Live Aid 1985)

"I Don't Like Mondays" is a song by Irish band The Boomtown Rats about the Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego. The song was a number one single in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks during the summer and ranks as the sixth biggest hit of the UK in 1979. Written by Bob Geldof, it was the band's second number one single.