Rat Trap
| "Rat Trap" | ||||
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| Single by The Boomtown Rats | ||||
| from the album A Tonic for the Troops | ||||
| B-side | "So Strange" | |||
| Released | 6 October 1978 | |||
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| Length | 4:55 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Bob Geldof | |||
| Producer(s) | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | |||
| The Boomtown Rats singles chronology | ||||
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"Rat Trap" is a song by the Boomtown Rats, released in October 1978 as the third and final single from the band's second album A Tonic for the Troops. It reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1978, the first single by a punk or new wave act to do so. The song was written by Bob Geldof, and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. It replaced "Summer Nights", a hit single for John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John from the soundtrack of Grease, at number one on the UK chart after the latter's seven-week reign.