“Satellite” by Echo and the Bunnymen

"Satellite" sits on Echo & the Bunnymen, the English band's fifth album, the 1987 record they simply named after themselves. The writing credit is shared four ways: Ian McCulloch, who sings and plays guitar, Will Sergeant on guitar, Les Pattinson on bass and Pete de Freitas on drums. It was de Freitas's last album with them; a motorcycle crash killed him in 1989, when he was 27.

Laurie Latham produced and Bruce Lampcov mixed, and getting there was a grind. A first attempt without de Freitas, with Gil Norton producing, was scrapped, and the sessions that stuck roamed from Germany and Belgium to London and Liverpool, with an exacting producer at the desk and a hard-drinking McCulloch getting the star treatment.

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