Stevo Pearce left school at sixteen with no qualifications and entered a work training placement with sub contracted distribution company distributing Phonogram Records.
18 Facts About Stevo Pearce
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Stevo Pearce's mother purchased a mobile disco unit on hire purchase and Stevo began a Monday-night residency at the Chelsea Drugstore in London's King's Road.
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Stevo Pearce was chased out of one club for just repeating "Yes hello, hello yes, it's highly psychological", and after mixing Mickey Mouse into Cabaret Voltaire at half speed.
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Stevo Pearce did not like the term "Futurist", feeling the name was "a bit of a joke".
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Stevo Pearce went on to sign some of the most important underground, alternative bands of the 1980s, becoming notorious in the way he signed bands, especially with major record labels who knew how important the deal was to them.
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Stevo Pearce was sent sweets every week as part of a deal with Phonogram Records.
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Stevo Pearce has been involved with many artists and bands as their manager or through his label Some Bizzare Records.
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The Warehouse Leeds, Yorkshire, was where Soft Cell first had a meeting with Stevo Pearce, who had hitch-hiked to Leeds from London, picked up at Staples Corner by the band Modern English as he was holding a sign saying "Leeds".
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Stevo Pearce said that he was putting together the Some Bizzare Album, which would include bands that "broke down barriers".
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Stevo Pearce preferred to include undiscovered bands that he could then license to major record companies through his Some Bizzare label.
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Stevo Pearce wanted to include Soft Cell on the Some Bizzare Album, and wanted to manage the band.
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Depeche Mode were cautious when first approached by Stevo Pearce, they were indecisive about being included on a "Futurist" compilation album.
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Stevo Pearce had then recommended that the band work with Daniel Miller at Mute Records.
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Matt Johnson, of the band The The, first came across Stevo Pearce after receiving a series of odd phone calls wanting him to support the band, Cabaret Voltaire.
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At first he declined due to there being no payment; Stevo Pearce insisted it would be good for Johnson's career.
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Stevo Pearce became Matt Johnson's manager in around 1982 and began looking to sign The The to a major record label.
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Johnson and Laws had released the single "Cold Spell Ahead" on the independent side of Some Bizzare but later Stevo Pearce dealt with Decca Records, who paid for Johnson to re-record the song with producer Mike Thorne in New York.
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The clever thing that Stevo Pearce had managed to do was get Decca to pay for the recordings while still keeping ownership of the recordings.