Bill Drummond: The Man
Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 8 November 1986
HE USED to be a deep sea trawlerman, used to manage the Bunnymen and the Teardrops, and had the dubious honour of playing with Holly Johnson in the seminal Liverpool combo. Big In Japan. And now, as he turns 33 and a third he releases his testimony, The Man, a long playing record.
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