Boom, Like That | |
Cover: | Boom_like_that.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Mark Knopfler |
Album: | Shangri-La |
Released: | 20 September 2004 |
Genre: | Roots rock |
Label: | Mercury |
Producer: | Mark Knopfler, Chuck Ainlay |
Prev Title: | Why Aye Man |
Prev Year: | 2002 |
Next Title: | The Trawlerman's Song EP |
Next Year: | 2005 |
"Boom, Like That" is a 2004 single by Mark Knopfler, from his album Shangri-La. It is – with "Darling Pretty" – one of only two Mark Knopfler solo singles to reach the UK Top 40, reaching no. 34.[1]
The subject of the song is Ray Kroc, the McDonald's entrepreneur. Knopfler indicated that he was inspired by Kroc's autobiography.