![]() ![]() ![]() Following the success of their third album, This is the Sea (1985), and its anthemic single, The Whole of the Moon, there was a growing expectation that The Waterboys would be the natural successors to U2, at the time busy recording The Joshua Tree and approaching their pomp. ![]() “Absolute b-s.” Mike Scott is robustly debunking the “reductionist” narrative surrounding his band, The Waterboys: the one which states that he “ran away” from the prospect of the group becoming a household name in the mid-1980s.įormed in 1983 as a vehicle for Scott’s widescreen songs, The Waterboys made critical and commercial inroads with their eponymous debut and its follow up, A Pagan Place (1984). ![]()
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