The Mighty Lemon Drops

The Mighty Lemon Drops were an English rock group active from 1985 to 1992. Originally called the Sherbet Monsters, the quartet first formed in the spring of 1985 in Wolverhampton, in the The Black Country. Paul Marsh, Dave Newton and Tony Linehan had played together in a band called Active Restraint in 1982, with Newton later leaving to become a founding member of The Wild Flowers. Dave Newton and Tony Linehan were the principal songwriters for ... more

The Mighty Lemon Drops were an English rock group active from 1985 to 1992. Originally called the Sherbet Monsters, the quartet first formed in the spring of 1985 in Wolverhampton, in the The Black Country. Paul Marsh, Dave Newton and Tony Linehan had played together in a band called Active Restraint in 1982, with Newton later leaving to become a founding member of The Wild Flowers. Dave Newton and Tony Linehan were the principal songwriters for the group. Their sound can best be described as neo-psychedelia in the vein of Echo & The Bunnymen, played with a ringing Rickenbacker guitar as the lead instrument. In December 1985 the quartet, now officially The Mighty Lemon Drops, released their first independent single, "Like An Angel," which went to the top of the UK Indie Chart. They also recorded a session for John Peel around the same time. Becoming part of the C86 movement, which was championed by the New Musical Express, they were soon snapped up by Blue Guitar, a subsidiary of... less