This pretty much gave Julian Cope and his co-founders their initial confidence in the Teardrops not to mention that Paul was allegedly the first member of the band to be asked for an autograph. So join a band with ‘Simmo’ and you couldn’t go wrong. His mother was a spiritual healer and had allegedly predicted that her son would be huge. A founder member of the Teardrops as their original keyboardist, Paul was already heavily looked up to by the punks of Liverpool as someone who was safe to join a band with. A veteran of the Liverpool punk scene, known to some as ‘Simmo’ in the early days, it was Paul Simpson who was indirectly responsible for giving The Teardrop Explodes their name, as the owner of the Daredevil comic from which they took their moniker. While his name may not be so familiar to many, Paul Simpson is an undisputed legend of Liverpool post-punk, and one of the most prolific and consistently brilliant songwriters the city has ever spawned. And while The Wild Swans may never have been as famous or as commercially successful as their peers Echo & the Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes and Wah! Heat, they were certainly every bit as musically innovative and as powerful. Anyone who was not only able to compete with Julian Cope for stage presence power, but also for creative control of The Teardrop Explodes during his time as a member, was surely destined to form a legendary band of his own. Today we take a look at Liverpool cult legends The Wild Swans, the brainchild of lead member Paul Simpson.
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