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I saw a credit to Philip Chevron for the liner notes from The Boomtown Rats LP Mondo Bongo. What is the story there?

Clash Cadillac wrote:I saw a credit to Philip Chevron for the liner notes from The Boomtown Rats LP Mondo Bongo. What is the story there?

I agreed to write the sleeve notes for one of the Boomtown Rats reissues in a quid pro quo for Geldof having written a piece for the Pogues reissues. Mondo Bongo is considered by many to be the weakest Rats album, but I rather liked it. Not for the first time, the Rats stole something from the Rads - in this case our producer, Tony Visconti, but time levels these things out, I suppose.

Geldof was an early and genuine champion of the Pogues. His sleeve note for the reissues, hammered out on an old-fashioned portable typewriter on a beach in Spain where Bob was meant to be on vacation, was much too long to use in any of the CD booklets except in excerpt, which is why it appears instead on the front page of Medusa.