If you've been seeing the Boomtown Rats for these last years, you will have noticed that, during 'Mary Of The Fourth Form', the band turn to the blues in the breakdown with that boom, boom, boom thing, the core of rock music, a sound and ideal that comes from so many folk traditions. Here, a lone Rat offers his respect to one of the greatest men of the blues; a man who sold his soul to the devil for mastery of the guitar at the crossroads on the intersection of U.S. Routes 61 and 49, Clarksdale,

This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Boomtown Rats. In that time, we’ve seen Band Aid, Live Aid and Global Treasure. Plus there was, and always will be, Bobby Boomtown. The First 50 Years: Songs Of Boomtown Glory is a 24-track 2LP and 27-track 2CD that features the very best of the Boomtown Rats – all tracks are selected by fans as well as the band – from their first hit in 1977 ‘Looking After Number 1’, plus ‘She’s So Modern’, ‘Rat Trap’, ‘I Don’t Like Monday’s‘ to their most recent, 202