Top singles from the past…

5 May 2020

40 years ago, on 5 May 1980, Liverpool legends ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN released
24 Karat standout single RESCUE via Korova (with Simple Stuff as B-side). Not only one
of the supreme stunners by this iconic band, but unquestionably one of the best songs
of all time in my book. It was only the stars’ second single (‘The Pictures On My Wall‘
was their debut 7″) taken from their first masterpiece LP ‘Crocodiles ‘.

Won’t you come on down to my
Won’t you come on down to my rescue

Things are wrong
Things are going wrong
Can you tell that in a song
Losing sense of those harder things
Is this the blues I’m singing?

Studio version…

Masterly live version

Transformed version – from newest album The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon

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Also forty years ago – 5 May 1980 – charismatic frontman and songwriter Ian McCulloch – one of the best voices in the history of rock music – celebrated his 21st birthday. So today the King of Kings with Lips Like Sugar who jumped Over The Wall singing All That Jazz while sailing The Seven Seas through Ocean Rain turns 61 years young. Happy B. big mouth!

I saw the band 28 times live. Never ever did they disappoint.