Hot rats
Th* Boomtown Rats’ single “1 Don’t Like Moe»days” is on the way to becoming the biggest selling singlo of all time, according tq the band’s P.R. machine. The single is already matching the earlv sales of “Mull of Kintyre” by Wings. According to the P.R. machine “I Don’t Like Mondays” is selling between SA.9M and HMOft copi •; a day in Britain. “Mull of Kintyre” sefd 2.5 M copies, staying at
No. 1 for nine weeks, and turned platinum (IM vales) In a month. It entered the charts at No. 48 in November, 1978. rising to No. 5 and then to No. 1 in successive W'ks. /It then went to No. 10, Downing Street, where the then Prime Minister (Sunny Jim Callaghan) knighted it fer discovering North Sea oil.
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