Bob Geldof once sent 1,000 dead rats to radio DJs in the US as a publicity stunt
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nme.comThey were sent to DJs "busy playing disco in the middle of the 70s" Bob Geldof has revisited the time he once sent 1,000 dead rats to radio DJs in the US as a publicity stunt.
Speaking on The One Show, the Irish singer-songwriter and activist discussed coming up with the prank in a bid to help his band The Boomtown Rats make a name for themselves in the US during the 1970s – although he admits it probably did the opposite. “It was 1,000 dead actual rats which were ordered from the sanitation department of New York City and sent out from Chicago to 1,000 disc jockeys who were busy playing disco in the middle of the ’70s,” he explained. “On Monday morning there was this dump on the desk of a 1,000 DJs and it was a rat in formaldehyde, in
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