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The Boomtown Rats enter the UK Singles Chart with their debut single, Lookin' After No1., which will peak at No11 during a nine-week run on the chart.Full article:
Nigel Grainge (A+R Man, Phonogram Records) : I was boxing up my stuff in my Phonogram office, preparing to move out, when Chris O'Donnell (Thin Lizzy's manager) walked in and said he had some friends outside from Dublin who wanted to make an appointment so they could play me a demo tape. I said, 'Never mind about that - I don't have a full diary yet, bring 'em in now'. Bob Geldof and Fachtna O'Ceallaigh walked in and proceeded to play the most unbelievable demo I've ever heard. Geldof had this big roll of posters under his arm and while the tape was playing he grabbed my staple gun and was walking around my room stapling up Boomtown Rats posters. Now normally, I would have kicked someone like that out, but the tape was so good I said nothing and just listened.
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