Someone's Looking at You

"Someone's Looking at You" was the third and final single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing.[3] It peaked at number two on the Irish Singles Chart and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1980.[4]

"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]
Released18 January 1980 (UK)[1]
Genre
Length4:27
LabelEnsign Records (UK)[1]
Columbia Records (USA)
Songwriter(s)Pete Briquette & Bob Geldof
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange[1]
The Boomtown Rats singles chronology
"Diamond Smiles"
(1979)		 "Someone's Looking at You"
(1980)		 "Banana Republic"
(1980)

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".[5] 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.[5] Geldof's website describes the song as a personal statement on fame.[6]

Charts
Chart (1980) Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[7] 86
Ireland (IRMA)[8] 2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[9] 48
Norway (VG-lista)[10] 6
UK Singles (OCC)[11] 4

References
  1. "Boomtown Rats, The - Someone's Looking At You (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
  2. DeGagne, Mike. "Someone's Looking at You by The Boomtown Rats - Track Info | AllMusic". allmusic. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  3. William Ruhlmann. "The Boomtown Rats | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
  4. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 71. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  5. "Rats article". Authorsden.com. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
  6. Archived July 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Top RPM Singles: Issue 9488b." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  8. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Someone's Looking At You". Irish Singles Chart.
  9. "The Boomtown Rats – Someone's Looking At You" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  10. "The Boomtown Rats – Someone's Looking At You". VG-lista.
  11. "Boomtown Rats: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
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