Terri Hooley

{{Short description|Northern Irish music entrepreneur}}

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| birth_name = Terence Wilfred Hooley

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|12|23|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland[https://www.getintothis.co.uk/2017/03/terri-hooleys-teenage-kicks-story-good-vibrations-godfather-ulster-punk/ Profile: Terri Hooley], getintothis.co.uk. Accessed 13 October 2022.

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| known_for = Founder of Good Vibrations record label

| occupation = Entrepreneur

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Terence Wilfred Hooley (born 23 December 1948) is a businessman from Northern Ireland who is a prominent figure in the Belfast punk scene and founder of the Good Vibrations record shop and label. He was responsible for bands such as The Undertones, Rudi, Protex and The Outcasts making their mark on the music scene in Ireland and Britain. After playing "Teenage Kicks" on BBC, national radio John Peel then became a big supporter of the Good Vibrations record label.

Despite growing popularity, Good Vibrations filed for bankruptcy in 1982, just as the first wave of British punk had died. Bands that had gone to London, such as Protex and Rudi, returned to Hooley and Belfast. Hooley's friends later got him a shop called Vintage Records, Co. just around the corner from Good Vibrations. The label celebrated its 30th anniversary in April 2008.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7298275.stm |title=Summer of teenage dreams remembered |last=Mitchell |first=Cameron |date=15 March 2008 |publisher=BBC |accessdate=4 December 2009 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102232753/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7298275.stm |archivedate=January 2, 2009 }} The Good Vibrations record shop at Winetavern Street, Belfast, closed in July 2011.{{cn|date=October 2022}}

In October 2012, Hooley was verbally abused and pushed by two men while out walking his dog in East Belfast. During the incident Hooley was described as a "Fenian lover" and called "a disgrace to Protestants".{{cite news |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/terri-hooleys-sadness-at-assault-by-bigot-while-walking-dog/28879354.html|title=Terri Hooley's sadness at assault by bigot while walking dog |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=30 October 2012}}{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20122457 |title=Men threaten punk icon Terri Hooley |work=bbc.co.uk |publisher=BBC |date=29 October 2012}} The attackers later apologised.

He became bankrupt in 1982, but continued to be active on Belfast's music scene. However, in 2015 he closed his last remaining record shop due to ill health.

He lost an eye in an accident when six years old, and as of 2023 undergoes dialysis three times a week while maintaining a busy schedule.{{cite news| last=Cartwright | first=Garth | title='I regret punching Lennon': Terri Hooley on his wild life in the Belfast punk scene |newspaper=The Guardian | date=2 January 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/02/lennon-undertones-terri-hooley-belfast-punk-beatle-troubles}}