I Don't Like Mondays
"I Don't Like Mondays" is a song by Irish new wave group the Boomtown Rats about the Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego. It was released in 1979 as the lead single from their third album, The Fine Art of Surfacing. 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 and Johnnie Fingers, the piano ballad was the band's second single to reach number one on the UK chart.
| "I Don't Like Mondays" | ||||
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| Single by the Boomtown Rats | ||||
| from the album The Fine Art of Surfacing | ||||
| B-side | "It's All the Rage" | |||
| Released | 13 July 1979 (UK) October 1979 (US) | |||
| Recorded | Trident Studios | |||
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| Length | 4:19 (LP) 3:47 (single/video) | |||
| Label | Ensign (UK) Columbia (US) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bob Geldof, Johnnie Fingers | |||
| Producer(s) | Phil Wainman | |||
| The Boomtown Rats singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "I Don't Like Mondays" on YouTube | ||||
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| "I Don't Like Mondays" on YouTube | ||||
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