Rat Trap

"Rat Trap"
Single by The Boomtown Rats
from the album A Tonic for the Troops
B-side"So Strange"[2]
Released6 October 1978 (1978-10-06) [1]
Genre
Length4:55
Label
Songwriter(s)Bob Geldof[2]
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange[2]
The Boomtown Rats singles chronology
"Like Clockwork"
(1978)
"Rat Trap"
(1978)
"I Don't Like Mondays"
(1979)

"Rat Trap" is a single by The Boomtown Rats which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1978,[5] the first single by a punk or new wave act to do so.[6] It was written by Bob Geldof,[7] and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange.[2] It replaced "Summer Nights", a hit single for John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John from the soundtrack of Grease, at number one in the UK chart after the latter's seven-week reign.[8]

  1. ^ "Boomtown Rats singles".
  2. ^ a b c d e "Boomtown Rats, The - Rat Trap (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 1978. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  3. ^ Stanley, Bob (13 September 2013). "Cranked Up Really High: Punk Rock". Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. Faber & Faber. p. 449. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5.
  4. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/song/rat-trap-mt0011610608
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Larkin2002 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 71. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  7. ^ "Bob Geldof". bobgeldof.com. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Pegg2006 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).