Coming for the Kicks ; Gig of the Week: The Undertones
Evening Gazette › December 02, 2011
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ARE teenage dreams so hard to beat? When guitarist John O'Neill from The Undertones first wrote Teenage Kicks, probably even he didn't think it would go on sell eight million copies, be forever immortalised by the late great John Peel and be covered by artists as diverse as U2, Franz Ferdinand, The Saw Doctors and Snow Patrol.
The seminal Derry band were no one-hit wonders, though, and there were bigger hits like Jimmy Jimmy, My Perfect Cousin, Its Going To Happen and Wednesday Week that followed.See the full content of this document
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Coming for the Kicks ; Gig of the Week: The Undertones
The group's gig at Inside Out in Darlington tonight is par...
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