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Will Sergeant\\u2019s just put out the second volume of his memoirs, both of them Sunday Times best-sellers, Echoes and the first edition, Bunnyman. Here he revisits the Liverpool of the \\u201860s and \\u201870s in extraordinary detail - the clothes, the records, the gangs, the school days, the early shows he saw - and the many reasons he wanted to form a band. On the agenda \\u2026

\\u2026 \\u2018rockist\\u2019 cliches the Bunnymen detested.  

\\u2026 why America loved early \\u201880s British groups.

\\u2026 the powerful appeal of Jethro Tull, Status Quo, Slade, Roxy Music, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and rock and roll theatre.

\\u2026 clothes bought from NME small ads in the \\u201870s.

\\u2026 absurd rivalries with Simple Minds and the Jesus & Mary Chain.

\\u2026 fond memories of David Thomas of Pere Ubu smashing a pig iron spike with a lump hammer.

\\u2026 the \\u2018Porcupine\\u2019 cover shoot in Iceland.  

\\u2026 the charisma of the teenage Mac McCulloch.

\\u2026 bands that borrowed from the Bunnymen.

\\u2026 why the Ramones were \\u201cStatus Quo with drainpipes\\u201d.

\\u2026 and the magic ingredient that held Mac\\u2019s hair aloft.

Order Bunnyman here \\u2026

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bunnyman-Memoir-Sunday-Times-bestseller/dp/1472135032

And Echoes here \\u2026

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Echoes-memoir-continued/dp/1408719304

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