Echo And The Bunnymen: A Promise of Rock Re-Born
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 20 February 1982
THE DAY AFTER THIS venerable paper's hardcore readers have enjoyed their brief, communal moment of glory in the polls, all-round prize guys Echo And the Bunnymen are mulling over the implications of the results.
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