Bunnyman

A Memoir: The Sunday Times bestseller

By: Will Sergeant

Narrated by: Will Sergeant

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was the natural order of things, a young Will Sergeant found the emerging punk scene provided a shimmer of hope amongst a crumbling city still reeling from the destruction of the Second World War.

From school-day horrors and mud-flinging fun to nights at Liverpool's punk club, Eric's, Sergeant was fuelled by and thrived on music. It was this devotion that led to the birth of the Bunnymen, to the days when he and Ian McCulloch would muck around with reel-to-reel recordings of song ideas in the back parlour of his parents' council estate house and to finding a community - friends, enemies and many in between - with those who would become post-punk royalty from the likes of Dead or Alive, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and the Teardrop Explodes to name a few.

It was an uphill struggle to carve their name in the history of Liverpool music, but Echo and the Bunnymen became iconic, with songs like 'Lips Like Sugar', 'The Cutter' and 'The Killing Moon'. By turns wry, explicit and profound, Bunnyman reveals what it was really like to be part of one of the most important British bands of the 1980s.

The music at the beginning and end of this audiobook is taken from an original piece written and performed by Will Sergeant.

©2021 Will Sergeant (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK

Disappointed

I’ve been reading and listening a lot of biographies, yes they all have the same kind of structure: childhood, interests, finding a path, getting popular and all that. This story stops right before it has to start. I was very much interested in the live and development of the band ( my favorite band) but there is absolutely nothing about it. School years, motorcycle rids, fear of kissing a girl… it is all the same in every man life. Who wants to hear it?
Story ENDS in a moment when Pete was found as a drummer… common, this is not the story you want when we talk about Echo and The Bunnymen.
I was still enjoying hearing Will’s voice but I wanted to hear a story about great guitar player and a great band.
Sorry Will, not the book I was so excited to get…

Will is Punk for Life

Will is too cool. Since 1983, he’s remained a mystery. I am looking forward to pt. 2. In addition to hearing his account for how the band evolved, how they were discovered, etc. All of that too was a mystery. Excellent Storytelling.