• • (deceased) • (deceased) • • Echo & the Bunnymen are an English band formed in in 1978. The original line-up consisted of vocalist, guitarist and, supplemented by a. By 1980, joined as the band's drummer. Their 1980 debut album,, went into the top 20 of the.

New Rare Echo & The Bunnymen Records Store for Echo & The Bunnymen Rare 7'. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Porcupine. Echo and the bunnymen,echo and the bunny men. Echo & The Bunnymen - In Bluer Skies. Taken from the 'Porcupine' Video.

After releasing their second album,, in 1981, the band's cult status was followed by mainstream success in 1983, when they scored a hit with ', and the album which the song came from,, hit number 2 in the UK. (1984), continued the band's UK chart success, and has since been regarded as one of the landmark releases of the movement, with the single '. After releasing a in 1987, the next year, McCulloch left the band and was replaced by former St. Vitus Dance singer. In 1989, de Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident. After working together as, McCulloch and Sergeant regrouped with Pattinson in 1997 and returned as Echo & the Bunnymen, before Pattinson's departure in 1998.

Metastock Pro 8.0 Rt more. The band has been touring since, releasing several albums since the late 1990s, to varying degrees of success. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Early years [ ] began his career in 1977, as one third of the, a bedroom band which also featured and. When Wylie left, McCulloch and Cope formed the short-lived with drummer Dave Pickett and organist, during which time such songs as 'Read It in Books', 'Robert Mitchum', 'You Think It's Love' and 'Spacehopper' were written by the pair. When Cope sacked McCulloch from the band, A Shallow Madness changed their name to, and McCulloch joined forces with guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson to form Echo & the Bunnymen. This early incarnation of the band featured a, assumed by many to be 'Echo', though this has been denied by the band. In the 1982 book Liverpool Explodes!, Will Sergeant explained the origin of the band's name: We had this mate who kept suggesting all these names like The Daz Men or Glisserol and the Fan Extractors. Echo and the Bunnymen was one of them.

I thought it was just as stupid as the rest. In November 1978, Echo & the Bunnymen made their debut at Liverpool's, appearing as the opening act for. The band played one song, a 20-minute version of Monkeys which was entitled I Bagsy Yours at the time. Echo & the Bunnymen's debut single ' was released on & 's in May 1979, the being the McCulloch/Cope collaboration 'Read It in Books' (also recorded by The Teardrop Explodes approximately six months later as the B-side of their final Zoo Records single 'Treason'). McCulloch has subsequently denied that Cope had any involvement with the writing of this song on more than one occasion.

By the time of their debut album, 1980's, the drum machine had been replaced by Trinidad-born. The lead single, ', climbed to UK No.62 and the album broke into the Top 20 at No. 17, following critical acclaim. Their next album, (1981), was an even bigger critical and commercial success, reaching the UK Top Ten (No. 10), although a single lifted from the album, ', could only reach UK No. 49. Mainstream success [ ] In June 1982, the Bunnymen achieved their first significant UK hit single with ' (No. 19).

In July 1982, they performed at the first festival. This was followed in early 1983 with their first Top 10, the more radio-friendly ', which climbed to No. 8. The parent album,, hit No. 2 in the album chart. Now firmly established as a chart act, further hits followed with a one-off single, ' (No. 15), and ', a preview from the new album featuring a dramatic McCulloch vocal, which became the band's second UK Top 10 single at No. 9.

Following a which proclaimed it 'the greatest album ever made' according to McCulloch, 1984's reached No. 4, and today is widely regarded as the band's landmark album. Single extracts ' (UK No. 30) and ' (UK No. 16) consolidated the album's continued commercial success. In the same year, McCulloch had a minor solo hit with his cover version of '.

Echo & the Bunnymen toured in April 1985, performing cover versions of songs from,, and. Recordings from the tour emerged as the semi-bootleg On Strike. University Of Houston Gis Program. Unfortunately for the band, Ocean Rain proved to be a difficult album to follow up, and they could only re-emerge in 1985 with a single, ' (UK No. 21), and a compilation album,, which made No. 6 in the UK album chart.