Never But NEVER Let Anyone...Or Anything....Rain On Your Parade! That's just a waste of time! Instead let the Larger~Than~Life, the Powerful, and the Electric Rule The Day! The Boomtown Rats are, in fact, SO powerful that when they made their grand entrance onto the stage in Swansea, Wales on Saturday, 20 July, the gray and rain which had persisted throughout the entire day....STOPPED. The Sun came out for the Rats and for all of you in the audience. The crowd swelled once the Boomtown Rats claimed the stage and made it entirely their own! And when the band kicked into "Someone's Looking At You", Bob Geldof reminded everyone just what an essential part of real Rock 'n' Roll the tambourine is, making the instrument come alive and all those gathered there along with it!
Paul Cuddeford held nothing back with his pick axe of a guitar and even if someone WAS looking at the audience, they were completely uninhibited and threw themselves into dancing and singing at the top of their lungs. In fact, I would say Wales has some of the greatest singers and harmonizers in the world because the crowd was as much a part of the poignant beauty of "I Don't Like Mondays" as the Rats on this beautiful Swansea evening.
And if Bob HADN'T announced to the thousands who'd come to Let's Rock just to see the Rats that he was on FIRE, everyone STILL would have known! You felt it within seconds of the band sending the first notes of the evening soaring out into the crowd and they never let up from start to finish. There was so much electricity going back and forth between the audience and the Rats, it's a wonder they didn't burn the place down! Actually....they did. But not before the incomparable A J Hindshaw was able to capture these incredible moments for you.
Are you ready for more?! Of course you are! Come back tomorrow and find out what it's like when the Rats Take Over A Palace!
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I love these images, thank you for sharing them, mayor Jennifer♥️ Yesterday, Suss told Bob about me and sent me this image, I can’t thank him enough for it♥️ This proves that Bob is my beautiful angel🥰😍❤️♥️😍🥰❤️