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Terri Hooley, of the Undertones, speaks on a variety of things.
On Punching John Lennon:
‘I regret punching Lennon’: Terri Hooley on his wild life in the Belfast punk scene
He belted a Beatle, launched the Undertones and foiled armed kidnappers. Terri Hooley explains how he kept Northern Irish teens kicking as the Troubles escalated
www.theguardian.com
On Punching John Lennon:
The Lennon incident happened on a visit to London around 1970 when Hooley was introduced to Lennon via pals on Oz magazine. The former Beatle mistook him for an IRA supporter and – in his pre-pacifist days – offered to supply him with weapons. “He was stoned so it wasn’t my proudest moment,” says Hooley. “When I met Cynthia [Lennon’s first wife] and told her, she said, ‘You should have hit him harder!’”