Gary O'Donoghue
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1,144 appearances
20 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 Sep
Gary O'Donoghue’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there's also, you know, in maybe slightly more stressful circumstances when people might not necessarily want you around, it can be harder to, you know, shut the door in the face of a blind bloke who's a reporter.
Well, I'm pretty sure this was the first single I ever bought.
But I think when I started listening to music or becoming aware of it at sort of six, seven, eight, I didn't really like what was around very much.
I kind of hated disco.
Although, ironically, there is a disco track in one of the ones I've suggested.
There are reasons.
But suddenly there was this kind of new music around, well, punk basically, and a new wave.
And this came along and I brought the single and I remember taking it to school and forcing one of the teachers to play it in the classroom.
It was my French teacher, and I asked her to translate it, but she refused to.
I didn't know whether she could or couldn't or wouldn't, but she wouldn't translate it.
Anyway, so this has a sort of very special sort of place in my memory.
It's Saplan Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand.
She did.
My mum and dad both left school at 14.
And my mother went to a dancing school, Boreham Dancing School, and did loads of all her qualifications and was completely qualified by, I think, the age of 21.
And used to sort of effectively, when the owners were away, run this quite well-known Boreham Dancing School in North London called Morgan's.
And that's where she met my father because he was one of her pupils.
And in fact, that's where one of her sisters also met her husband.
It's a bit better than speed dating.
To be honest, she was always quite critical of his dancing.
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