Echo & The Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen are an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bassist Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine. By 1980, Pete de Freitas joined as the band’s drummer.

Their 1980 debut album, Crocodiles, went into the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart. After releasing their second album, Heaven Up Here, in 1981, the band’s cult status was followed by mainstream success in 1983, when they scored a UK Top 10 hit with “The Cutter”, and the album which the song came from, Porcupine, hit number 2 in the UK. Ocean Rain (1984), continued the band’s UK chart success with its lead single “The Killing Moon” entering into the top ten.

After releasing a self-titled album in 1987, McCulloch left the band and was replaced by former St. Vitus Dance singer Noel Burke. In 1989, de Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident. After working together as Electrafixion, McCulloch and Sergeant regrouped with Pattinson in 1997 and returned as Echo & the Bunnymen, before Pattinson’s departure in 1998. The band has been touring since, releasing several albums since the late 1990s, to varying degrees of success.

80s Discography

80s Albums

TitleAlbum details
CrocodilesReleased: 18 July 1980
Heaven Up HereReleased: 30 May 1981
PorcupineReleased: 4 February 1983
Ocean RainReleased: 8 May 1984
Echo & the BunnymenReleased: 6 July 1987

80s Singles

1980“Rescue”62
“The Puppet”
1981“A Promise”49
“Over the Wall”
1982“The Back of Love”19
1983“The Cutter”8
“Never Stop”15
1984“The Killing Moon”9
“Silver”30
“Seven Seas”16
1985“Bring On the Dancing Horses”21
1987“The Game”28
“Lips Like Sugar”36
“Bedbugs and Ballyhoo”
“People Are Strange”29

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