Diamond Smiles

"Diamond Smiles"
Single by The Boomtown Rats
from the album The Fine Art of Surfacing
B-side	"Late Last Night"
Released	December 1979 (UK)
Format	7" vinyl
Genre	New Wave
Length	3:54
Label	Ensign Records (UK) Columbia Records (USA)
Writer(s)	Bob Geldof
The Boomtown Rats singles chronology
"I Don't Like Mondays" (1979) "Diamond Smiles" (1979) "Someone's Looking at You" (1980)

"Diamond Smiles" was the second single from The Boomtown Rats' album The Fine Art of Surfacing. It was the follow-up to their vastly successful single "I Don't Like Mondays" and also peaked at a respectable Number 13 in the UK Charts. The band has suggested that it might have fared better had it not been for a strike of lighting technicians on the powerful UK TV programme Top of The Pops at the time that the record was released and rising in the charts.^[1]

Dealing with death, as had "I Don't Like Mondays", the song tells the story of a glamorous debutante ('Diamond') who commits suicide and is remembered only for her low-cut dress.^[2]

The song also featured as one of four songs on an Australian EP called Surface Down Under that also featured past hits "Rat Trap", "Looking After No.1" and "Like Clockwork".^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Official discography
2. ^ Diamond Smiles lyrics