{"id":413033,"date":"2026-04-23T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413033\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:48:10","slug":"dreams-peter-cunnah-on-finding-his-birth-father-what-do-you-write-hello-i-might-be-your-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413033\/","title":{"rendered":"D:Ream\u2019s Peter Cunnah on finding his birth father: \u2018What do you write? Hello! I might be your son\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\n\u2018Things Can Only Get Better\u2019 became a \u201990s classic but was dismissed as \u2018handbag house\u2019. Now living in Donegal, the singer discusses partying too hard and the UK\u2019s Labour party \u2018grooming\u2019 him for his band&#8217;s biggest hit\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reformed: D:Ream\u2019s Peter Cunnah (right) and Alan Mackenzie. Photo: James Hole\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2fba29fb-93ad-4ce1-bccf-a350acec5be7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Reformed: D:Ream\u2019s Peter Cunnah (right) and Alan Mackenzie. Photo: James Hole<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For a fleeting period in the mid-1990s, Pete Cunnah\u2019s music was inescapable. His most emblematic song, Things Can Only Get Better, was every bit as ubiquitous as Wonderwall or Girls and Boys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Four years after it was first released, the song was used as the campaign anthem that swept New Labour and Tony Blair to power in 1997, heralding a new dawn for Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Things Can Only Get Better\u2019 became a \u201990s classic but was dismissed as \u2018handbag house\u2019. Now living in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,280,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-413033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-meagher","13":"tag-review-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}