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Echo & The Bunnymen

Echo & The Bunnymen

Echo & The Bunnymen has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 33 episodes and was first played on 12 July 2013.

Echo & the Bunnymen are a British Post-punk band formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson. There are many stories, probably apocryphal, that the quartet was completed by a drum machine known as "Echo".

By the time of their debut album is 1980's Crocodiles. Their next, the critically-acclaimed Heaven Up Here, reached the Top Ten in 1981, as did 1983's Porcupine and '84's Ocean Rain. Singles like "The Killing Moon, Silver helped keep the group in the public eye as they took a brief hiatus in the late 1980s. Their 1987 self-titled LP was a small American hit, their only LP to have significant sales there.

McCulloch quit the band in 1988. De Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident one year later. The others decided to continue, recruiting Noel Burke to replace McCulloch which did not generate much excitement among fans or critics. Burke, Sargeant and Pattinson split after that, but the surviving three fourths of the original band reformed in 1997and released Evergreen, What are You Going to Do with Your Life, Siberia, and the latest addition, The Fountain. The group's old audience liked the return to their classic sound, and they also managed to gain a number of new, younger listeners.

Echo and the Bunnymen were managed early on by Bill Drummond, who went on to be a founder member of The KLF.

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Echo & The Bunnymen

Echo & The Bunnymen has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 33 episodes and was first played on 12 July 2013.

Echo & the Bunnymen are a British Post-punk band formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson. There are many stories, probably apocryphal, that the quartet was completed by a drum machine known as "Echo".

By the time of their debut album is 1980's Crocodiles. Their next, the critically-acclaimed Heaven Up Here, reached the Top Ten in 1981, as did 1983's Porcupine and '84's Ocean Rain. Singles like "The Killing Moon, Silver helped keep the group in the public eye as they took a brief hiatus in the late 1980s. Their 1987 self-titled LP was a small American hit, their only LP to have significant sales there.

McCulloch quit the band in 1988. De Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident one year later. The others decided to continue, recruiting Noel Burke to replace McCulloch which did not generate much excitement among fans or critics. Burke, Sargeant and Pattinson split after that, but the surviving three fourths of the original band reformed in 1997and released Evergreen, What are You Going to Do with Your Life, Siberia, and the latest addition, The Fountain. The group's old audience liked the return to their classic sound, and they also managed to gain a number of new, younger listeners.

Echo and the Bunnymen were managed early on by Bill Drummond, who went on to be a founder member of The KLF.

Original source Last.fm

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Going Up
Echo And The Bunnymen
Korova1980
Ocean Rain
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Korova1984
The Killing Moon
Echo & The Bunnymen
Korova1984
No Dark Things
Echo And The Bunnymen
Korova1981
The Game (Acoustic Demo)
Echo & The Bunnymen
Warner Strategic Marketing2003
Killing Moon
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Silver Boys1984
Higher Hell
Echo & The Bunnymen
Korova, WEA1983
Seven Seas
Echo & The Bunnymen
Korova, WEA1984
The Killing Moon (All Night Version)
Echo & The Bunnymen
WEA, Korova1984
The Pictures On My Wall
Echo And The Bunnymen
Zoo Records1979