![]() ![]() ![]() Billboard charts, it's seemingly a common assumption that the song might have been banned by some radio stations - Ultimate Classic Rock speculated that American stations might have been hesitant to play "I Don't Like Mondays" due to its controversial subject matter. Given its unremarkable performance on the U.S. ![]() While those lyrics remain relevant in this day and age where school shootings are tragically much more commonplace than they were in 1979, there's one dated lyric - "the Telex machine is kept so clean/and it types to a waiting world" - that refers to how Bob Geldof wrote "I Don't Like Mondays." Per Ultimate Classic Rock, the frontman learned about the incident through the Telex machine at Georgia State University's radio station and quickly proceeded to compose the song. ![]()
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