The Undertones' Feargal Sharkey on his first car: 'The bodywork was full of paper and coathangers'

“It was great to have a car,” the 65-year-old said. “Where I came from in Northern Ireland there was widespread unemployment so to have a car was quite something. “But when I took the Datsun to be tested it turned out the bodywork was full of paper and coathangers. It wasn’t great.” It wasn’t his first experience of motoring though. Although his band The Undertones was just beginning to make a mark, he had a job with Radio Rentals delivering televisions.

” As lead singer of The Undertones, Mr Sharkey had several hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s including Teenage Kicks, Here Comes Summer and My Perfect Cousin. After splitting with the band in 1983, he went to have success as a solo artist, mostly notably with the hit single A Good Heart which went to number one in several countries including the UK in 1985.

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