Bob Geldolf, lead singer of The Boomtown Rats, is being interviewed at an Atlanta radio station and sees the telex come through. Later the same morning, a shiny telex machine whirs into life and "types to a waiting world". During a six-hour standoff with police, an enterprising reporter from the San Diego Tribune phones her and asks why she had killed two people and wounded nine others. She squeezes the trigger, firing off 36 rounds in total. 22 rifle at pupils in the playground of the elementary school across the street. A 16-year-old schoolgirl opens her bedroom window and calmly picks up her Christmas present. UK picture sleeve, UK labels The Story Behind The SongĨ:30am, 29 January 1979.
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