Wreckless Eric

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Wreckless Eric began his recording life on Stiff Records in 1977 with his enduring hit Whole Wide World when he was little more than an ex-teenage art student. Eventually he sidestepped the mechanics of stardom to become Britain’s biggest underground household name, much loved and much misunderstood.

Nothing Eric has to say sounds like it was said by someone else first. His songs deal with ramshackle existences, the tenuous nature of life, love and fame, depression, injustice, pain, depravity and death, always delivered with indefatigable optimism.

He lives in bohemian splendour in upstate New York in what he describes as a budget pop star home where he continues to record other-worldly pop records.

He signed to Fire Records in 2014. A new album amERICa is scheduled for November 2015.

'Wreckless Eric is a hero to all those of us who love a good kitchen sink drama set to music. He takes the strangeness in the everyday and sets it to song. Like Ray Davies, Kevin Ayers and Ian Dury, he is a truly great British songwriter'

Phil Alexander, Editor in Chief, MOJO magazine