Northern Irish punk legends The Undertones have revealed that they almost split just weeks before recording their classic track ‘Teenage Kicks’.
In an interview with the BBC The Undertones’ bassist Mickey Bradley has revealed that their classic track ‘Teenage Kicks’ almost never happened as vocalist Feargal Sharkey had quit the band. We were in the middle of a personnel crisis – Feargal wanted to leave,” explained the bassist.
“He may have thought the band was going nowhere, or maybe he thought TV aerial installation was the career he wanted, but I was delegated by the rest of the band to talk to him… It was never spoken of again. By Feargal, anyway.”
The Undertones then sent the single to legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel who repeatedly named the track as one of the greatest ever recorded. Peel loved the song so much in fact that it was played at his funeral, and the opening lines of the songs were written on his gravestone.
