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". Their debut album is 1980's
Crocodiles, and their next, the critically-acclaimed
Heaven Up Here, reached the Top Ten in 1981. So did 1983's
Porcupine and '84's
Ocean Rain. Singles like The Killing Moon and Silver helped keep the group in the public eye as they took a brief hiatus i…
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