Liverpool Explodes
by Mark Cooper
Buy on AmazonBefore he became responsible for Later… and the bulk of the BBC’s music output, Mark Cooper wrote this affectionate & hilarious account of the early 1980s music scene in Liverpool & specifically the careers of The Teardrop Explodes and Echo and the Bunnymen. Unfortunately out of print at the mo…. You could console yourself by reading 45 by Bill Drummond which features some of the same characters. (And is also an immense book in its own right).
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"Before he became responsible for Later… and the bulk of the BBC’s music output, Mark Cooper wrote this affectionate & hilarious account of the early 1980s music scene in Liverpool & specifically the careers of The Teardrop Explodes and Echo and the Bunnymen. Unfortunately out of print at the mo…. You could console yourself by reading 45 by Bill Drummond which features some of the same characters. (And is also an immense book in its own right)."
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