RIP Gary Roberts (The Boomtown Rats)
De gitarist, die mee aan de grondslag van de Ierse band lag, werd tweeêzeventig jaar oud.
Gary Roberts was "the guy who summed up the sense of who The Rats are", deelden The Boomtown Rats mee. Sir Bob Geldof begon met The Boomtown Rats in Dublin in 1975. Voor de fans was Roberts "The Legend" en de bandleden noemden hem Gazzer.
De verklaring van de band luidt als volgt: "On a clear spring evening in 1975, in a pub in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Garry became the founding member of what turned out to be a great rock 'n' roll band, driven largely by that sound of his - a storm of massive considered noise that punched out from his overtaxed amplifiers and which animated not just the rest of the group but audiences he played to around the world."
U kent de band ongetwijfeld van I Don't Like Mondays, maar wij diepen toch graag een andere song van The Rats op.