Written by Bob Geldof and Johnnie Fingers, the piano-driven song was the lead single from the album The Fine Art of Surfacing. "I Don't Like Mondays" was the Boomtown Rats' biggest hit in the U.S., reaching No. 73 on Billboard, while still cementing its place as one of rock’s most haunting and unforgettable songs.
The lyrical content, based on a real-life tragedy, may have hit too close to home for U.S. listeners.
On January 29, 1979, Brenda Ann Spencer, then 16, killed two adults and injured eight children and a police officer as she opened fire outside of Grover Elementary School in San Diego.
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"Not liking Mondays as a reason for doing somebody in is a bit strange,” he recalled per Elsewhere.com. “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?'”
On July 13, 1985, the Boomtown Rats famously performed “I Don’t Like Mondays” during their set at Live Aid, the charity concert held simultaneously at Philadelphia’s JFK Stadium and England’s Wembley Stadium to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. While performing the song, Geldof dramatically paused for nearly 20 seconds after singing the line, “And the lesson to today is how to die,” to emphasize the anti-famine message.
In an interview, he revealed that he received a disturbing letter from Spencer from prison, even though he never mentioned her by name in his song.
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