‘I Don’t Like Mondays’: The harrowing story behind the 1979 smash hit and Bob Geldof’s big regret
A tragic backstory.
Author: Tom Taylor Archives: 05/2026
A sunny May in 1976: Five songs turning 50 this month that changed music history
The month that punk missed.
Five times support bands destroyed the headliner: “We gotta follow these guys?”
“We blew everybody off the stage”.
The line from 1965 Paul McCartney calls his favourite lyric of all time: “My inspiration”
A hero’s hero and the meaning of life.
The album Dave Grohl and David Bowie agreed was the most important of the 1980s: “It was so necessary”
“There was such a lot of sludge in America at the time”.
The three greatest Eagles songs of all time, according to the Eagles
“Bridge country and rock and roll so beautifully.”
The show-off in the synagogue in 1959: When Jimi Hendrix was fired from his first-ever gig
The birth of a legend.
