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The Undertones formed in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1974. [12] The band members were five friends from Creggan and the Bogside, who originally drew inspiration from such artists as the Beatles, Small Faces and Lindisfarne [13] and who decided in part to form their own band due to both their common interest in music and the fact that—because of the Troubles—many entertainment venues in the ...
The Undertones "Here Comes the Summer" 34 — — "You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It!)" 32 25 — Non-album single "My Perfect Cousin" 1980 9 9 —
The Undertones is the 1979 debut album by the Undertones. The album was recorded at Eden Studios in Acton, West London in January 1979 and was released in May that year. [ 5 ] The original release included just one single release: " Jimmy Jimmy " and an album version of " Here Comes the Summer ", which was never released as a single.
"Teenage Kicks" is the debut single by Northern Irish punk rock band the Undertones. Written in the summer of 1977 by J.J. O'Neill, the band's rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter, the song was recorded on 15 June 1978 and initially released that September on independent Belfast record label Good Vibrations, [6] before the band signed to Sire Records on 2 October 1978.
The song was the sixth single released by the Undertones, and the first single to be written by Damian O'Neill and Michael Bradley. [7] The music video to the song was largely filmed at the home of the O'Neill brothers, and was directed by Julien Temple. [8] The song was performed on Top of the Pops on two occasions: 10 April and 24 April 1980 ...
The band's lead singer, Feargal Sharkey, has opined The Sin of Pride as being "the finest Undertones album." [2] Released on 13 March 1983, [3] The Sin of Pride reached number 43 in the UK charts. Largely due to the commercial failure of The Sin of Pride, the Undertones disbanded just four months after the album's release. [4]
John Joseph O'Neill (born 26 August 1957) is a musician who is the rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter of the punk rock/new wave band the Undertones. [1] O'Neill, along with his younger brother Vincent and friends Feargal Sharkey, Michael Bradley and Billy Doherty, founded the Undertones in 1975, but Vincent O'Neill was replaced the following year with his younger brother Damian O'Neill ...
He was the lead vocalist of punk band the Undertones in the 1970s and 1980s and a solo artist in the 1980s and 1990s. His 1985 solo single "A Good Heart" was a number-one hit in the United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands. After becoming less musically active in the early 1990s, he has performed various roles supporting ...