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The Fruit Eating Bears
were Neville Crozier (vocals/guitar), Gary Croudance (bass/vocals) and Chris
Crash (drums) who came from the Croydon area and were originally known as
The Bicycles Turds before highjacking the name of a little known 60's beat
group, who's drummer Kenny Mundye was the band's original drummer before
Chris Crash joined. Click
to hear audio clip of 'Door In My Face'
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Both the band's
singles were produced by Vic Maile, 'Chevy
Heavy' / 'Fifties Cowboy'
(Lightning, 1978) is the weaker single and was originally to have come out
on Raw Records on green vinyl, but Lee Woods hated it and passed it on to
Lightning.
"...but not before
they'd put us in a photo shoot laying flat out completely covered in
fruit!...and I mean covered, except our heads." Chris Penhale |
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sides of the follow up
'Door In My Face' /
'Going Thru The Motions'
(DJM, 1978) is much better though still basic pub rock'n'roll. Their publishers Jackson Music bizarrely
entered 'Door
In My Face' in
'A Song For Europe', the UK heat for 'The Eurovision Song Contest'. The
'Bears performed the track on national TV, introduced by Terry Wogan.
Unfortunately they finished joint 11th (out of 12). Terry Wogan, in this
first encroachment of punk into Eurovision, described the bandas
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Click on live review left to see larger readable image from Sounds
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Above article
courtesy of James Denholm
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