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Sean O'Hagan (born 1959) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and arranger who leads the avant-pop band the High Llamas, which he founded in 1992. He is also known for being one half of the songwriting duo (with Cathal Coughlan) in Microdisney and for his work with the English-French band Stereolab.
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Sean O'Hagan was born in England to Irish parents, moving to Cork as a teenager.

O'Hagan is a founding member of the Irish indie band Microdisney, alongside Cathal Coughlan; the band initially formed in Cork but was based in London from 1982 until their split in 1988.[3] He released a solo album titled High Llamas in 1990, which would become the name of a band he subsequently formed. The High Llamas were influenced by the Beach Boys, Ennio Morricone, Antonio Carlos Jobim and avant-garde electronica. He has also collaborated extensively with Stereolab, he was an official member from 1993 to 1994, and is credited as a guest musician on later releases.

In 1996, O'Hagan collaborated with Tim Gane as Turn On, releasing an album of the same name on Drag City Records. They also worked together on the soundtrack to the film La Vie d'Artiste.

On 27 November 2017, it was announced that O'Hagan and Coughlan would reform Microdisney for a one-off concert in the National Concert Hall, Dublin on 2 June 2018. Coughlan subsequently stated on his website that due to the sellout of the Dublin show, they would be performing a one-off in London as well. They are scheduled to perform the album The Clock Comes Down The Stairs in full.[citation needed]
Unrealised Beach Boys collaboration

In the mid 1990s, Brian Wilson was attempting to organize a comeback album with the Beach Boys and his collaborator Andy Paley.[4] After Wilson's bandmate Bruce Johnston heard the High Llamas' 1996 album Hawaii, an unsuccessful attempt was made to instead coordinate a collaboration between O'Hagan and Wilson.[5] Some of the songs that later appeared on the High Llamas' 1998 album Cold and Bouncy were then briefly under consideration to be recorded by the Beach Boys.

One of the reasons that the collaboration never happened, by O'Hagan's account, was interference from Wilson's wife Melinda and former wrestler Joe Thomas, who was ultimately chosen to produce Wilson's 1998 solo album, Imagination. O'Hagan, who thought Wilson's musical talents were best served at reclaiming his title as a "20th-century avant-garde pop genius", had voiced objections to Thomas' desire to instead break Wilson into the adult contemporary market.[5] According to O'Hagan, he attended one meeting with Wilson and two with the Beach Boys, but Wilson's "camp" was unable to reach an agreement with the other Beach Boys. He said of Wilson in a 2001 interview,

I didn't go out of my way to meet Brian, and I wouldn't have wanted to. I'm happy enough to have been influenced by Brian Wilson and to still listen to and enjoy the music he made. [...] He's not mad, but [...] I asked him what sort of record he wanted to make and told him he could have strings and brass, and I was witness to him running around his house shouting "Too much!" and "You're blowing my mind!" over and over. The thing is, he's not really responsible for his day-to-day life, he's totally dependent on other people. He just wants to feel safe and comfortable.

A post attributed to Wilson on his website wrote that O'Hagan was "a real sweet guy, but I didn't think I needed him to show me how to do the things I had already done 30 years earlier". Johnston surmised that "Brian was a little intimidated by Sean, in the same way that Gershwin may have been intimidated by Oscar Levant."
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