The Rat's Pyjamas ; Answers to Correspondents [Eire Region]
Daily Mail › September 16, 2009
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QUESTION The trend for young girls to wear pyjamas out and about during the day got me thinking about former Boomtown Rat Johnnie Fingers. What is he doing now? JOHNNIE Fingers will forever be remembered as the pyjama-wearing pianist with the Boomtown Rats.
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The Rat's Pyjamas ; Answers to Correspondents [Eire Region]
But for those looking for some deeper meaning to why Fingers dressed as though he was going to bed when he played the keyboards for the Rats, there is only disappointment.
Fingers, in an interview at the band's height in 1981 said: 'I've been asking myself (why do you wear pyjamas all the time?) that for a while. I always wore clothes that made people stare at me and say...See the full content of this document
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