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born 1959 England
Ian Stephen McCulloch (born 5 May 1959) is an English singer-songwriter who is the lead singer of the post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen. Echo & the Bunnymen formed in 1978 before McCulloch left the band in 1988 to pursue a solo career.
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I only ever wanted, since the age of 13, to be the best singer of the best band in the world.
Spin magazine (2008)
We weren't managed from the word go, like U2 or Simple Minds, to get bigger and bigger and take over the planet.
Q magazine (1992)
”I wanna play football for the coach — Liverpool’s coach!”
Rolling Stone magazine (2009)
I'm basically an 'appy person, but I'm just not into fun things that much.
NME (1980)
I plan on not dying, but if I have to, I want to die in Liverpool.
Spin magazine (2008)
There was even talk at one point of getting Del Shannon to produce our first album.
NME (1980)
People who leave groups generally sell less records. I feel better and more worthwhile selling less than the last Bunnymen record. I feel more important.
Rolling Stone (1990)
It did cause problems at one point. Part of it was down to the name of the group—people tended to think I was Echo. That's why we named the drum-machine Echo because I definitely wasn't.
NME (1980)
How can you not sell the first three Bunnymen albums? It's like, how can you not sell the Mona Lisa, Van Gogh's Sunflowers, and The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch?
Spin magazine (2008)
I was always really dubious about them actually. I'd heard some of Morrison's rambling poetic stuff, and I thought it was really pretentious... But now I think they're a great group, I must admit.
NME (1980)
When all's said and done, I wish them well. I wasn't just the one that ranted a bit in interviews and thought he was great. I thought the group were great.
Rolling Stone (1990)
It feels like there's hundreds of bands in Liverpool. There's some okay ones... But really we're the only one I can think of as being a potentially great band...
NME (1980)
From when Oasis first started I thought, "Thank Christ someone has picked up on that simple technique of saying they're the best thing on the planet and just fronting it." Liam is a part of a great ancestry of lippy, insecure bastard frontmen.
Q magazine (1998)