This day in 1979 the Boomtown Rats were Number 1 in the UK. Bob Geldof wrote the song 'I Don't Like Mondays' after reading a report on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer. She had fired at children playing in a school playground across the street from her home in San Diego, California.
Spencer killed two adults and injured eight children and one police officer and showed no remorse for her crime. Her full explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays, this livens up the day."

In a lighter vein in 2003, The wine Sir Cliff Richard made from his Algarve estate started a UK supermarket battle. Fans were asking all the stores when the wine would go on sale. Tesco Supermarkets were saying they would be the first, but the Waitrose shops had been selling the £8.49 a bottle red for the last week. It was, for Sir Cliff, Days of Wine and Waitroses.

Very sadly in 2008, Amy Winehouse, was rushed to hospital after she started to have fits at her home in Camden North London. A spokesman said it appeared the singer had suffered a reaction to medication she was taking to help her off hard drugs

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