- One of their biggest hits was the controversial "I Don't Like Mondays". The song was inspired by the story of a 17-year old girl named Brenda Spencer who shot 11 people (killing two) just because she didn't like Mondays.
- Broke up a few months after Live Aid, which their founder Bob Geldof helped to organize.
- After the success of "I Don't Like Mondays", songwriter Bob Geldof received a letter from Brenda Spencer, the school shooter who inspired the song, in which she professed pride in what she had done, because the song had made her famous.
- Were bigger in Britain than they were in the United States.
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