Citizens of Boomtown: The Story of The Boomtown Rats

[Phil_A]

Your B.A.Robertson list are the same four I remember. Everybody at school liked at least one of his tunes but I could never work out what type of person he was appealing to enough to keep him on the charts beyond one novelty hit. The idea that anybody could be a big fan of his is hard to get my head around. Of all the acts coming and going at any given time, B.A. Robertson?

As Chart Music fans may be aware, he benefited from a huge scam that used to go on whereby record shop staff would be bribed to falsify sales figures(when it was all written down in manual ledgers) for certain artists in order to give them a boost in the charts.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

As Chart Music fans may be aware, he benefited from a huge scam that used to go on whereby record shop staff would be bribed to falsify sales figures(when it was all written down in manual ledgers) for certain artists in order to give them a boost in the charts.

Yeah, Cunterson's hitherto inexplicable reign of terror suddenly made sense when I heard that. Shocking really, but that's showbiz.