Never Stop: The Echo & The Bunnymen Story

by Tony Fletcher

Genres: Music

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 1987

About the author

Tony Fletcher is the author of seven non-fiction books and one novel.  His biography of drummer Keith Moon  has been named in many a Best Music Book list, and his biography of R.E.M., updated in 2013 as Perfect Circle,  has been published in over half a dozen countries.   A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of The Smiths was published in the UK by William Heinemann in September 2012, and by Crown Archetype in the USA in December 2012, with paperback editions following in the corresponding months of 2013. A memoir of his South London schooldays,  Boy About Town , was published in the UK by William Heinemann in July 2013, and is now available as a paperback in both the USA and UK through Windmill Books/Cornerstone Press.

Fletcher gained his entry into music journalism by founding a fanzine at his London school in 1977; by the time Jamming! ceased publication in 1986, it was selling 30,000 copies a month. Along the way he interviewed the likes of Pete Townshend, Paul McCartney, Paul Weller and U2, as well as dozens of up-and-coming, predominantly independent post-punk acts.

A contributor over the years to a multitude of magazines, newspapers, radio and television shows, primarily in the UK and USA, Fletcher now lives with his family on a mountaintop near the village of Woodstock in New York State. There he runs, skis, maintains his web site www.ijamming.net, serves on his local school board, and plays Hammond B-3 and Rickenbacker in the Catskill 45s, a group that only performs songs from 45 calendar years ago.

Reviews

[John Lyman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very informative book. Not rich in personal stories, but I did get some sense of McCullough's personality, (more than the others). Unfortunately I still couldn’t tell you half the band members' names nor instruments. I had an unforgettable moment when the author was talking about a Glastonbury Festival in which they debuted "It’s All in Your Mind" and that exact song from that exact show was playing on my iTunes randomly out of 20,000+ songs. Pretty bizarre.

[Erickson]

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