Gary O'Donoghue

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1,144 appearances 20 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 7 Sep

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Desert Island Discs · Gary O'Donoghue, journalist · 14 Jun 2026 podcast

looking after me when I was having all my sight problems and spending loads of time in hospital.

And certainly when I went to school, I really didn't see them very much.

And so, you know, we've obviously stayed together and we still talk, you know, but I don't feel like I've ever really known them.

It is.

And we haven't had that conversation.

Maybe we should.

Oh, I mean, I do remember that they took a group of us over to a disused airfield a little few miles away and taught us how to drive.

Wow.

And it was great.

And they said, of course, you'll never drive, but you should know what it's like.

And so, whatever, 14, there's five of us in this dual-controlled car with one teacher and four blind kids in the back saying, oh, faster, faster, faster.

And we're driving around this old airfield and it was so exciting.

So my dad took me down to Denmark Street here in London, Tin Pan Alley, they used to call it.

And he bought me a Fender Strat copy in Sunburst.

And me and three other guys, when we were about 15, started this band.

And we used to go and play the pubs around Worcester and the West Midlands and Birmingham.

And we'd get paid in beer.

We were underage.

All of us were underage.

I mean, you wouldn't get away with it now, but they would pay us a beer.

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