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Echo & the Bunnymen is a British rock group formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of Ian McCulloch (of the Crucial Three), Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine assumed by many to be "Echo," though the band deny this.
By the time of their debut album, 1980's Crocodiles - a moderate UK hit - the drum machine had been replaced by Pete de Freitas. Their next, the critically-acclaimed Heaven Up Here, reached the Top Ten in 1981, as did 1983's Porcupine and '84's Ocean Rain. Singles like "The Killing Moon" (later used in the soundtrack to Donnie Darko, a film whose imagery owed much to the artwork of the band's early records.), "Silver," "Bring on the Dancing Horses," and "The Cutter" helped keep the group in the public eye as they took a brief hiatus in the late 1980s. Their 1987 self-titled LP was a small American hit, their only LP to have significant sales there.
McCulloch quit the band in 1988. De Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident one year later. The others decided to continue, recruiting Noel Burke to replace McCulloch on vocals in Reverberation (1990), which did not generate much excitement among fans or critics. Burke, Sargeant and Pattinson split after that, but the surviving three fourths of the original band reformed in 1997 and released Evergreen (1997), What are You Going to Do with Your Life? (1999) and Flowers (2001). The group's old audience liked the return to their classic sound, and they also managed to gain a number of new, younger listeners.

Discography of albums

(1980) Crocodiles
(1981) Heaven Up Here
(1983) Porcupine
(1984) Ocean Rain
(1985) Songs to Learn and Sing (Singles collection)
(1987) Echo & the Bunnymen
(1990) Reverberation
(1997) Evergreen
(1999) What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
(2001) Flowers
(2002) Live in Liverpool
(2005) Siberia

Singles

YearTitleChart positionsAlbum

1980"Rescue"
1981"Crocodiles"
1981"A Promise"
1982"Back of Love"
1983"The Cutter"
1983"Never Stop"
1984"The Killing Moon"
1984"Silver"
1984"Seven Seas"
1985"Bring on the Dancing Horses"
1987"The Game"
1987"Lips Like Sugar"
1988"People Are Strange"
1990"Enlighten Me"
1991"Gone, Gone, Gone"
1991"People Are Strange" (re-issue)
1997"Nothing Lasts Forever"
1997"I Want to Be There When You Come"
1997"Don't Let It Get You Down"
1999"Rust"
2001"It's Alright"
2001"Make Me Shine"
2005"Stormy Weather"
2005"In the Margins"