Said by John Peel to be the best pop song ever written, which group had a Top Forty hit in 1978 with 'Teenage Kicks'?
Teenage Kicks placed on his grave in the Suffolk village of Great Finborough. In 2004, a mural in tribute to Peel, featuring the opening line of "Teenage Kicks", appeared on a Belfast flyover. Footnotes Teenage Kicks "Teenage Kicks" was the debut single for Northern Irish punk rock/new wave band The Undertones. Written in the summer of 1977 by the band's principal songwriter, John O'Neill, the song was recorded on 16 June 1978 and initially released that September upon independent Belfast record label Good Vibrations, before the band—at the time unobligated to any record label—signed to Sire Records on 2 October 1978. Sire
Teenage Kicks conducted by an alternative music radio station. In 2008, the song served as the theme song to the ITV sitcom of the same name. Upon first hearing "Teenage Kicks" in September 1978, BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel is reported to have burst into tears, and readily admitted to still being reduced to tears upon hearing the song in interviews granted to journalists up until his death. To judge songs he had heard for the first time as to worthiness of airplay upon his show, Peel often rated new bands' songs with a series of asterisks, with each song judged