Crucial Three

Crucial Three was a very short-lived band but notable because of the individual success of the three founding members: Ian McCulloch (later of Echo & the Bunnymen), Julian Cope (who went on to join The Teardrop Explodes and then release many albums under his own name) and Pete Wylie (later of many "band names" usually featuring the nonsense exclamation Wah!). A less notable personage, drummer Stephen Spence, also joined at some point in their brief life.

The band formed in May 1977 and split in June 1977. Rock journalism's favourite observation about the brevity of this outfit is that all three egos were much too large to fit in the same room.

Although they wrote and rehearsed a number of songs none of these were recorded or performed live.