Echo & the Bunnymen

...clean and moved to the country. In his own words, The KLF founder Bill Drummond "used to manage Echo and the Bunnymen, was a one-hit wonder with the The Timelords and ... tore up a 20-quid note or something". '17' is partly a memoir about...

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...for classical conductor Sir Georg Solti to walk out. The former manager of Merseyside band Echo and the Bunnymen later gained notoriety for burning GBP1m on a remote Scottish Island. This week he is in Cushendall as part of the County...

In this article: Bill Drummond, Cushendall, KLF, Northern Ireland, Democracy, 3am Eternal, BRIT Awards, and Georg Solti

To names such as Malcolm McLaren and Tony Wilson we can add Bill Drummond, former record executive, manager of Echo and the Bunnymen and mastermind of the KLF, here parading his expanding talents as a memoirist-with-attitude.

In this article: Bill Drummond, Last Choir Standing, K Foundation Burn a Million Quid, Strawberry Fields Forever, Land Rover, IPod, Gavin Bryars, Jimmy Cauty, and Tony Wilson

The album includes the singles "The Game ", "Lips Like Sugar" and "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo". Echo & the Bunnymen took time off from touring, writing and recording after the release of the critically acclaimed Ocean Rain in 1984, because the...

In this article: Echo & the Bunnymen, Pete de Freitas, Ian McCulloch, Bedbugs and Ballyhoo, The Game, Bring On the Dancing Horses, and Lips Like Sugar

...in early 1982 at Trident Studios in Soho, London. This was unusual as the band's manager , Bill Drummond, had previously been keen to keep the band away from the temptations of London. The recording session for "The Back of Love" went...

In this article: Porcupine, Heaven Up Here, The Back of Love, The Cutter, Bill Drummond, Ian McCulloch, Barney Hoskyns, Liverpool, and Ian Broudie

...debut album. Despite talk of the American singer Del Shannon being asked to produce the album, it was produced by the band's manager Bill Drummond and his business partner and The Teardrop Explodes keyboard player David Balfe. The recording...

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...Love You and The Teardrop Explodes. He also played on and co-produced the first Echo & the Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes albums, as well as managing both bands, with Bill Drummond, for their early years. Balfe and Drummond founded the Zoo...

In this article: David Balfe, The Teardrop Explodes, Bill Drummond, Blur, Food, Country House, EMI, University of Westminster, and University of Bedfordshire

...Never Again ''. They went on to act as both producers and label managers, releasing the debut singles by Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes, both of which Drummond would later manage somewhat idiosyncratically. This included...

In this article: Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, The KLF, K Foundation, What Time Is Love, Queen of the South, Illuminatus!, The Teardrop Explodes, and Ian Broudie