this is interesting use to like this song but not anymore now i know how it came about
The teenager who famously told a reporter; I dont like Mondays when asked why she carried out a shooting rampage at a US high school in 1979
Brenda Ann Spencer was just 16 when she aimed a rifle shed been given by her father for Christmas out of her bedroom window in San Diego and started shooting at children in a nearby playground.
She killed Grover Cleveland Elementary School principal Burton Wragg, 53, and caretaker Mike Suchar, 56, and wounded nine.
I dont like Mondays. This livens up the day, she told San Diego Evening Tribune reporter Gus Stevens when she answered his cold call.
Those infamous words inspired a song by the Boomtown Rats, written by Bob Geldof, later that year.
It reached number one on the charts around the world including in Australia.
Geldof denied exploiting tragedy and later said; It was the perfect senseless act and this was the perfect senseless reason for doing it. So perhaps I wrote the perfect senseless song to illustrate it.
[video=480,360]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kobdb37Cwc[/video]
erfect:
