| "Diamond Smiles" | ||||
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| Single by The Boomtown Rats | ||||
| from the album The Fine Art of Surfacing | ||||
| B-side | "Late Last Night" | |||
| Released | December 1979 (UK) | |||
| Format | 7" vinyl | |||
| Genre | New Wave | |||
| Length | 3:54 | |||
| Label | Ensign Records (UK) Columbia Records (USA) |
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| Writer(s) | Bob Geldof | |||
| The Boomtown Rats singles chronology | ||||
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"Diamond Smiles" was the second single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing. It was the follow-up to their vastly successful single "I Don't Like Mondays" and also peaked at a respectable Number 13 in the UK Charts. The band has suggested that it might have fared better had it not been for a strike of lighting technicians on the powerful UK TV programme Top of The Pops at the time that the record was released and rising in the charts.[1]
Dealing with death, as had "I Don't Like Mondays", the song tells the story of a glamorous debutante ('Diamond') who commits suicide and is remembered only for her low-cut dress.[2]
The song also featured as one of four songs on an Australian EP called Surface Down Under that also featured past hits "Rat Trap", "Looking After No.1" and "Like Clockwork".[1]
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