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Posed studio portraits of The Boomtown Rats
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Posed studio portraits of The Boomtown Rats
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some boomtown rats gifs for the 10+ fans out there
I also made the Rats in Tomodachi :D Well. Half the Rats. Still gotta make Gerry and Johnnie at some point
"I've sort of been subtly working away for a couple of years on trying to persuade everybody to get back together because when the band broke up... I thought that should've never happened in the first place. There's a close bond between us and I felt a bit post traumatic after the whole thing, you know. I missed everybody."
The Boomtown Rats 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Boomtown Rats 2005 Mercury ——————————————————————— Tracks: 01. Lookin’ after No. 1 02. Mary of the 4th Form 03. Joey’s on the Streets Again 04. She’s So Modern 05. Like Clockwork 06. Rat Trap 07. I Don’t Like Mondays 08. Diamond Smiles 09. Someone’s Looking at You 10. Banana Republic 11. The Elephants Graveyard 12. Never in a Million Years ———————————————————————
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Boomtown Rats Guitarist Garry Roberts Dies at 72
- “We feel strangely adrift without him tonight,” band says
Garry Roberts, guitarist and co-founder of the Boomtown Rats, died Nov. 9, his bandmates said.
Roberts was 72; no cause was given.
“We have known Garry since we were children and so we feel strangely adrift without him tonight,” band members Bob Geldof, Pete Briquette and Simon Crowe said in a statement issued “with very great grief.”
The Rats formed in Ireland in 1975 and scored hits such as “Like Clockwork” and “I Don’t Like Mondays” before their initial split in 1986. The band reformed in 2013 and released Citizens of Boomtown, its first album since 1984, in 2020.
Imelda May remembered Roberts as a “total legend and thoroughly nice man.
“Sending love to his family, friends and band family,” she wrote on Twitter.
11/9/22
GARRY ROBERTS (1950-Died November 9th 2022,at 72). Irish musician best known as the lead guitarist with The Boomtown Rats, a New Wave band which came into being in 1976,and had hits with I Don’t Like Mondays,Banana Republic,and Rat Trao. He and Johnnie Fingers (Moylett) had decided to put a band together and, between them, they recruited the other four members, Pete Briquette (bass),Gerry Cott (guitar), Simon Crowe (drums), and singer Bob Geldof,who became the frontman for the group.and later known for organising the 1985 charity concert,Live Aid,with Midge Ure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Roberts