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Looking back on that period after all these years, he now says: “Bono was just
big into Jesus. He was a really nice fella, and I thought, ‘We shouldn’t have
slagged you off as much as we did’. But we slagged everybody off. It was sort

of – attack is the best form of defence.”

Echo & The Bunnymen playing live on The Tube (Image: REX/Shutterstock)

Born in Liverpool in 1958, Sergeant was brought up in a village just north of
the city called Melling. Even as a schoolboy, he was repelled by mainstream

pop music.

“At school there were four of us who liked prog rock,” he remembers of his

time at Deyes Lane Secondary Modern in the early 70s, where he first met
future bandmate Pattinson. “We were the four freaks in the corner. Everybody

else was into Chicory Tip and Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree.”