Early Career
Ian Broudie played in Liverpool's fledgling punk scene in the 1970s (he was a member of the band Big in Japan, which also featured Holly Johnson and Bill Drummond). He was also a founder member of John Peel favourites the Original Mirrors in the early '80s, and was credited as a member of Bette Bright and the Illuminations on their lone album from 1981. In 1983, he formed the band Care with vocalist Paul Simpson; the duo released 3 singles, including the minor UK chart hit "Flaming Sword" before breaking up.
Though he was a busy writer, performer and session musician through the 1980s, Broudie was much more well known in this era as a producer, helming albums by Echo and The Bunnymen, The Icicle Works and The Three O'Clock, amongst others. From 1980 to 1983, he occasionally used the pseudonym "Kingbird" when producing.
Read more about this topic: Ian Broudie
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or career:
“Mormon colonization south of this point in early times was characterized as “going over the Rim,” and in colloquial usage the same phrase came to connote violent death.”
—State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)