Will Sergeant, Echo and the Bunnymen
I remember seeing the B-52’s at Eric’s in Liverpool. Rock Lobster had come out on some little label and they were on early doors, but they were great – so different. The guitar had that Duane Eddy twang with open tunings, Fred was doing all this talk-singing, they had these high-pitched harmonies and there was a wailing organ. They slotted in with the punk world but somehow weren’t like that at all. It felt quite art school. The nearest the UK had to a band like that were the Rezillos, but they were more punky. I got the first album and loved it. Like the Bunnymen, they started off in little clubs and the hits took them into the mainstream, but they never lost what had made them great in the first place: art school freaky rock’n’roll pop. They didn’t really change after they became successful: Love Shack has all the same ingredients as Rock Lobster, just a much bigger production. Other people just caught up with what they were doing.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/ ... prejudices