The
discography
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of Irish
new wave group
The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats are an Irish rock music, rock band originally formed in Dublin in 1975. Between 1977 and 1985, they had a series of Irish and UK hit record, hits including "Like Clockwork", "Rat Trap", "I Don't Like Mondays" and "Banana Repub ...
consists of seven
studio albums
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, seven
compilation albums, 23
singles
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* ''Singles'' (miniseries), a 1984 Australian television series
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and three video albums. The Boomtown Rats' debut release was the 1977 single "
Lookin' After No. 1" which was originally written by frontman
Bob Geldof in 1975 while waiting for his local unemployment office to open in his native Dun Laoghaire then a major port an hour south of central Dublin. The group's next single "
Mary of the 4th Form" was released in the same year, along with their
self-titled
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debut album.
Albums
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilation albums
EPs
Singles
Videography
Video albums
Music videos
References
External links
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