| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781887128896 | | Publisher: Publishers Group West | | Publish Date: 9/1/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 30946820 | | Item#: RXJFQY | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 8L x 0.75T | | Pages: 225 |
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| | | Echo and the Bunnymen combine the rawness and venom of New York punk with the moody textures of groups like the Doors and the Velvet Underground. A major force in English post-punk, the band remains an enduring presence on the music scene thanks to Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant's exceptional songwriting skills and irresistible hooks. Turquoise Days covers the band's entire career, from its inception in 1978 to the present. It documents in heady detail the forces that gave rise to the group, their early stumbles and successes, and the qualities that have kept them in the musical limelight. An exhaustive critical history and biography, this lavishly illustrated history, with 200 color and black-and-white photos, also includes the complete lyrics of Ian McCulloch; hundreds of quotes from the Bunnymen, their fans, and their critics; and numerous never-before-published photographs.
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The Liverpool band Echo and the Bunnymen were formed out of a vibrant local music scene that centered on Eric's, a club that opened in the heady years of mid-1970s punk a few doors down from the site of the famed Cavern Club. The band's front man, Ian McCulloch, had been introduced to rock via an obsession with David Bowie, finding like-minded souls in future Liverpool scene-makers Julian Cope, founder of The Teardrop Explodes, and Pete Wylie, who would go on to helm Wah! Heat. In TURQOUISE DAYS, author and longtime Bunnymen fan Chris Adams traces the band's career with the aid of quotes from band members and associates, recalling major events from the development of such classic band releases as "The Killing Moon" and "The Cutter" to the tragic death of drummer Peter De Freitas in a motorcycle accident. In a rapid succession of short, incisive chapters, a picture emerges of a consummate pop group, initially unified in its mission to become "the Best Band in the World," which, though it never quite achieved its full potential, produced some stellar rock moments in the process.
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