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"If you break the song down, it's really not that original. But I thank God every day that I wrote it": How one radio play turned the Undertones' intended final release into a brand new beginning

A story of punk rock, John Peel and some misspelt graffiti

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"I always think this is the closest anyone has ever come to making the perfect record": The story of The Undertones' punk classic Teenage Kicks

Guitarist and songwriter John O’Neill on how a young band from Derry created a classic: "I can’t believe someone didn’t come up with it before me"

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"I went to Rough Trade: they told me it was the worst record they ever heard in their life. Everybody else that I could get a meeting with told me the same thing": The Undertones' Teenage Kicks wasn't always considered a punk rock masterpiece

Good Vibrations founder/Northern Irish punk legend Terri Hooley recalls how The Undertones were rejected by every British record label

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‘I regret punching Lennon’: Terri Hooley on his wild life in the Belfast punk scene

He belted a Beatle, launched the Undertones and foiled armed kidnappers. Terri Hooley explains how he kept Northern Irish teens kicking as the Troubles escalated

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"Belfast in 1980 was intense. The army were throwing you up against the wall and beating you with batons": The Cult's Ian Astbury on what he learned as a teenage punk squatting in N. Ireland

The Cult's Ian Astbury prides himself on being a global citizen, but squatting in Belfast in 1980 proved to be a formative experience

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‘They felt like a possible future’: how Brian Eno and I recorded Television’s first demos

In search of the new, Richard Williams – then an A&R man at Island Records – captured early Television in an office block salsa studio. But Tom Verlaine wasn’t impressed

The Guardian - UK

Good Vibrations: Stage musical of Belfast's 'greatest punk story' is coming to the Grand Opera House

"The story of Terri Hooley and the punk bands he came in contact with is one of the great ballads of Belfast"

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Things you could do in 1980s Northern Ireland that you can’t do now

For better or worse, times have changed...

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Ask Anna: A real jerk fest: Advice for Masturbation Month

Did you know May is Masturbation Month? Originally it was Masturbation Day, started by sex toy and education retailer Good Vibrations, in honor of Dr. Joycelyn Elders. Elders, who served as U.S. surgeon general in the '90s, was forced to resign for suggesting that masturbation be included in sexual health…

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