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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 moved to tears upon hearing the song in interviews granted to journalists up until his death. In 2008, the song served as the theme song to the ITV sitcom of the same name. The song has also been ranked as the second best indie song of all time in a 2016 poll conducted by an alternative music radio station. Peel also specifically requested sections of the lyrics of the song be engraved upon his tombstone. When he first played the song on his show on 25 September, he played the song twice (something he had never previously done). Influential BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel is known to have repeatedly stated "Teenage Kicks" to be his all-time favourite song from 1978 until his death in 2004.
The single was not included upon the original May 1979 release of the band's debut album The Undertones however, the October 1979 re-release of this debut album included both "Teenage Kicks" and the Undertones' second single, "Get Over You". Sire Records subsequently obtained all copyrights to the material released upon the Teenage Kicks EP and the song was re-released as a standard vinyl single on Sire's own label on 14 October that year, reaching number 31 in the UK Singles Chart two weeks after its release Written in the summer of 1977 by the band's principal songwriter, John O'Neill, the song was recorded on 15 June 1978 and initially released that September on independent Belfast record label Good Vibrations, before the band signed to Sire Records on 2 October 1978. " Teenage Kicks" is the debut single by Northern Irish punk rock band the Undertones. Fold-out of sleeve of original Good Vibrations release of Teenage Kicks EP