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Gerry Cott (born 15 October 1954, in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish guitarist and songwriter, who was a co-founder of the Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats. He started playing flamenco guitar when he was 11 years old.
Gerry Cott, co-founder of The Boomtown Rats and virtuoso guitarist releases an album of solo acoustic guitar music. Entitled Urban Soundscapes, the album comprises twelve original guitar pieces and a unique solo guitar arrangement of Eleanor Rigby. Urban Soundscapes is now available on CD and Download. For best audio experience, play through ...
Gerry Cott is a former member of The Boomtown Rats and a filmmaker who works with animals. He also creates solo instrumental guitar music inspired by urban soundscapes and his Irish roots.
From the album "I Left My Hat In Haiti" released 1984.
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Gegründet 1975 in Dún Laoghaire, Irland unter dem Namen Nightlife Thugs, änderten sie den Namen schon nach kurzer Zeit in The Boomtown Rats. Der neue Name entlehnte sich der Bezeichnung für die Arbeiter in den Ölfeldern in der Autobiografie von Woody Guthrie. Gründungsmitglieder waren neben Bob Geldof noch Garry Roberts (Gitarre), Gerry Cott (Gitar...
Der größte Hit der Boomtown Rats ist I Don’t Like Mondays auf dem 1979er Album The Fine Art of Surfacing. Das Lied entstand inspiriert durch ein Schulmassaker 1979 in San Diego, Kalifornien. Damals hatte die 16-jährige Brenda Ann Spencer zwei Erwachsene einer Schule erschossen sowie acht Schüler und einen Polizisten verwundet. Ihre lapidare Antwort...
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Kompilationen
Weitere Kompilationen 1. 1983: Ratrospective 2. 1987: The Boomtown Rats' Greatest Hits 3. 2005: 20th Century Masters: The Best of The Boomtown Rats – Millennium Collection 4. 2013: Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats Hits 5. 2014: So Modern – The Boomtown Rats Collection
EPs
1. 2013: Ratlife
The Boomtown Rats bei laut.deIsle of White Festival Line up Sees The Boomtown Rats Reunite. 28. Januar 2013,abgerufen am 11. März 2023.Jochen Sheytt: Popsongs und ihre Hintergründe – I Don’t Like Mondays, im Internetarchiv (Memento vom 3. Mai 2015 im Internet Archive) (abgerufen am 28. Dezember 2010)a b c Chartquellen: DE AT CH UK USThe Billboard Albums von Joel Whitburn, 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7.Gerry Cott was born in Dublin, Ireland on the 15th of October, 1954, and started playing guitar at 11 years old, after seeing Bob Dylan live. He’s most known for his involvement in The Boomtown...
15. Dez. 2010 · This is my take on Gershwin's classic "Summertime." As GG was heavily influenced by the emerging jazz and blues of the late 1920's I thought it appropriate to take a blues approach to the...
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