Someone's Looking at You
| "Someone's Looking at You" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by The Boomtown Rats | ||||
| from the album The Fine Art of Surfacing | ||||
| B-side | "When the Night Comes"[1] | |||
| Released | 1979(UK)[1] | |||
| Format | 7" vinyl | |||
| Genre | New wave | |||
| Length | 4:27 | |||
| Label |
Ensign Records (UK)[1] Columbia Records (USA) | |||
| Producer(s) | Robert John "Mutt" Lange[1] | |||
| The Boomtown Rats singles chronology | ||||
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"Someone's Looking at You" was the third and final single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing.[2] It peaked at number two on the Irish Singles Chart and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1980.[3]
It is an organ-based song that paints a humid picture of 1984-style government surveillance and has been described as a "gently humorous song about paranoia".[4] The second verse starts "They saw me there in the square when I was shooting my mouth off about saving some fish. Now could that be construed as some radical's views or some liberals' wish". This refers to singer Bob Geldof's participation in a Greenpeace anti-whaling rally in London's Trafalgar Square.[4] Geldof's website describes the song as a personal statement on fame.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Boomtown Rats, The - Someone's Looking At You (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ↑ William Ruhlmann. "The Boomtown Rats | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 71. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ↑ Archived July 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.