In an extract from his new book approximately the Undertones,bassist Michael Bradley describes the fruition of their John Peel-pleasing debut Related: When I got my Top of the Pops atomize, Mum got me new pyjamas I never really liked the title Teenage Kicks. It’s the “kicks” bit that still jars with me – not a word that we ever used and one I thought a bit too corny to put in a song. But then we never really expected much of it when John [O’Neill] played it for us in The Pit. The only bit of the creative process I remember was Billy [Doherty]’s drum intro, or the “doot-n-doot-n” which I am sure he nicked from another song we were trying to memorize. Come on,what effect you expect when some songs leave their intros lying around, not even locked? They’re just asking to be taken and stuck at the front of punk songs.
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Source: theguardian.com