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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Feargal Sharkey

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

When ‘Teenage Kicks’ by The Undertones was released in 1978, legendary DJ John Peel took the unprecedented step of playing it back to back on Radio 1. The lead singer was 20 year old Feargal Sharkey and the band were formed out of a desire to prove that five young men growing up in the Derry conflict zone could successfully learn to play instruments, write their own songs and hit the big time. Taking action is a thread which runs throughout Sharkey’s life, and after a successful solo career and time as chief at UK Music, he now plays a pivotal role in the campaign against the pollution of Britain’s rivers and seas.

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0:00.0

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0:24.4

This is a global original podcast.

0:37.2

Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast series contrived chiefly to let me spend more time with interesting people than is ordinarily available on the radio.

0:41.9

Although this week's guest, I'm already worrying that we may not have enough time to properly examine what I think Fergal Sharkey can be fairly described as a life well-lived

0:47.0

and still, of course, a work in progress.

0:49.1

Thank you very much for that.

0:50.5

I've been accused of lots of things, but never that before.

0:54.2

Hello, James O'Brien.

0:56.1

Your story begins in

0:58.0

Derry in 1958.

1:00.1

And I've found

1:01.5

just doing a little bit of research.

1:03.7

I don't do, I'm told amounts.

1:05.8

I'd like to say for some, you know,

1:07.5

creative reason I wanted to keep the interview fresh,

1:09.8

but I'm also quite lazy.

1:11.3

That's part of it as well.

1:12.6

But, so I've worked backwards.

1:14.6

I'm 50, so I would have known you during your post-undertones pop phase.

1:18.4

And then I'd have discovered the undertones as I got into cooler music getting older.

1:22.1

And then I'd have sort of recognize that you came out of the punk movement

1:26.9

and the very politicised

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