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Highlights
- Will Sergeant is a founding member of seminal post-punk band Echo and the Bunnymen.
- About the Author: Will Sergeant is best known for his work as songwriter and guitarist with Echo & The Bunnymen with whom he has recorded and performed world-wide for thirty years.
- 336 Pages
- Music, Genres & Styles
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About the Book
"This is the true story of one small boy, me, Will Sergeant, navigating the 60's and 70's, a woolly-back (hick) spawned one drunken night on the outskirts of a Nazi pocked and battered Liverpool, growing up with the spectre of WW2 still creeping about most adults padlocked minds".--Book Synopsis
Will Sergeant is a founding member of seminal post-punk band Echo and the Bunnymen. If songs like "Bring on the Dancing Horses" and "Lips like Sugar" do not ring a bell, Echo and the Bunnymen are all over the soundtrack of television show Stranger Things. The band also featured in the classic movie Lost Boys, including a cover version of The Doors' People are Strange with Doors member Ray Manzarek on keyboards. This book is the first time Sergeant has told his story. It begins with his childhood and concludes when Echo and the Bunnymen sign their first major record deal. His writing is filled with humor, eccentricity, social and musical history, and provides a detailed glimpse not only into the birth of the legendary post-punk band, but also post-WWII England, the effects of Thatcher-ism, English rock, the beginnings of punk rock, and the coming of age story of a true multi-media artist.Review Quotes
Will Sergeant is a true original. - Robert Smith
Will Sergeant helped me understand how to translate a psychedelic vision to rhythm and melody. Thrilled to read this! - Flea.
Will Sergeant is one of those people that music fans know is just great. - Johnny Marr
Will Sergeant will always be the perfect guitarist for the perfect band; no more, and no less. - Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins
Any great guitar band needed to have a Will Sergeant. The charismatic front man with his words and voice is all well and good but...without the blackness of the night the moon would not be killing. Will Sergeant was that blackness. He was also the confrontation, the no compromise, the purity of purpose, the beauty of simplicity. He was also always there, up at dawn to capture the first light coming in from the East. - Bill Drummond, The KLF
About the Author
Will Sergeant is best known for his work as songwriter and guitarist with Echo & The Bunnymen with whom he has recorded and performed world-wide for thirty years. He also has long-term ties with the experimental side of life, in the fields of performance, recording and the visual arts. He has produced solo and collaborative works since the 1980s, His first major solo art show 'My Own Worst Enemy' debuted at the Liverpool Penny Lane Gallery in 2011 and at the Substrate Gallery in Los Angeles, California, 2012.