when was i don't like mondays released
1979 21 July 1979
title: I Don't Like Mondays text: 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. The song was a number one single in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks during the summer of 1979, and ranks as the sixth biggest hit of the UK in 1979. Written by Bob Geldof, it was the band's second single to reach number one on the UK charts. The full length version appeared on the group's third album, "The Fine Art of Surfacing". It includes a reprise of the first verse, title: I Don't Like Mondays text: 8 concert in London, on 2 July 2005. "I Don't Like Mondays" was subsequently covered by Tori Amos on her 2001 album "Strange Little Girls" and later by G4 on their 2006 album "Act Three". 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. The song was a number one single in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks during the summer of 1979, and ranks as the sixth biggest hit of the UK in 1979. Written by Bob Geldof, it was title: I Don't Like Mondays text: on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. The song was played regularly by album-oriented rock format radio stations in the United States throughout the 1980s, although radio stations in San Diego refrained from playing the track for some years in respect to local sensitivities about the shooting. The strings were arranged by Fiachra Trench. Apart from Geldof, pianist Johnnie Fingers and drummer Simon Crowe are the only members of the group who appear on the recording. In the UK the song reached Number One on the singles chart in July 1979, and won the Best Pop Song and Outstanding British Lyric title: The Fine Art of Surfacing text: 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". The album peaked at No. 7 in the UK Albums Chart in 1979. "I Don't Like Mondays" b/w "It's All the Rage" was released in June 1979, and reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in late July in the UK in the same year. The song refers to Brenda Ann Spencer's killing spree on Monday, 29 January 1979 in San Diego, California. Bob Geldof also went title: The Boomtown Rats text: number one spot. In 1979, "I Don't Like Mondays", was released. This was written in response to a school shooting in California carried out by Brenda Ann Spencer, and also reached No. 1 in the UK. It was a worldwide hit, with the exception being the United States. It was the band's only song to reach the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and was included in the band's third album, "The Fine Art of Surfacing". The album also contained "Diamond Smiles" and their next Top 10 hit in the UK, "Someone's Looking at You". In 1980 "Banana Republic" was released, which