
John Peel – The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
From The Book “John Peel – A life in Music” – Michael Heatley.
The Undertones – “Teenage Kicks”
“Asked many years later why the track continued to hold a prime place in his affections, John admitted He’d yet to come up with a satisfactory answer. There is nothing you could add to It or subtract from It that would improve It, that’s the best I can do … Maybe once a fortnight, after a few days of listening to sizzling new releases and worrying that the music is merging into a characterless soup, I play “Teenage Kicks” to remind myself exactly how a great recordd should sound”