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

When i heard this song back in 2000 i had a vibe the man singing this song was a brilliant man more about life of others than his own

Actually the best performance - imo brilliant

Keys on a Quo song? Always hated it. Especially one of their defining numbers. Nonsense.

16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California🇺🇸USA on 29.01.1979 killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime; her explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day". She skipped school that day to shoot kids out of her living room window.
Geldof had been contacted by Steve Jobs to play a gig for Apple, inspiring the opening line about a "silicon chip".
The song was first performed less than a month later.
Geldof explained how he wrote the song:
"I was doing a radio interview in Atlanta with Johnnie Fingers and there was a telex machine beside me. I read it as it came out. Not liking Mondays as a reason for doing somebody in is a bit strange. I was thinking about it on the way back to the hotel and I just said 'silicon chip inside her head had switched to overload'.
I wrote that down. And the journalists interviewing her said, 'Tell me why?' It was such a senseless act. It was the perfect senseless act and this was the perfect senseless reason for doing it. So perhaps I wrote the perfect senseless song to illustrate it. It wasn't an attempt to exploit tragedy."
*Bob Geldof

very emotional singing...goosebumps

Got to hand to Bob this is one of the most moving performances ever and that line 'The lesson today is how to die' followed by the silence , thought provoking , spine chilling incredible.

la canzone e' piacevole ma non mi piacciono le pesone scaltre , sopratutto non in questi casi

piuttosto scaltro quello che canta,era in una radio arrivo' la notizia, e la ragazza diceva che odiavai il lunedi,e ne fece una canzone di successo.Ho riletto la storia, lui non faceva riferimento a Brenda ,ma se ne penti anni dopo .quando lei gli scrisse una lettera di ringrazamento

Buona fortuna

Sir Bob was a legend and performances like this will go down in history.

Bob changed my life. An amazing person

A pretty unwise song choice for a charity event if you ask me

Still applicable even 40 years later…

RESPECT!

Was 9 an I still remember this as if it was yesterday.

Damn they sound great live.

This show was broadcast on MTV the day before my birthday. I couldn’t sit still knowing this show was coming. The BEST birthday present anyone could ask for. SIMPLY AWESOME !!! Thanks Bob for organizing this, making history, and helping so many.

Le robaron el premio Nobel de la paz a Bob Gelfod en particular y a todos los artistas simbólicamente

Ich habe das nicht verdient. ...weil du hannah und m Mutter sich einreden ich bin am Ukraine Krieg schuld. Bewusst traumatized hannah aus Rache weil bei dir was schief gelaufen ist .. Ich habe einen seelembruch. Erst d Kindheit. .Dann Sascha klein . Mit dem du hannah was zu tun hast. . Der ist ein Riesen arschloch...Genau wie sein Freund James. ....Ich jedenfalls hab dir nichts getan . Und ampf mann du bist psychiater und hast mich angeschrien und Hilfe verweigert wie rogge sadist ....Ich komm also aus Texas oder was. ..verarschen ?!...und m leibl. Familie ist genauso scheisse wie m Adoptiveltern. Das ja super. ...