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Stephen John Pearce, commonly known as Stevo, is the owner of British record label Some Bizzare Records. ==Biography== Stephen John Pearce was born in 1962 and came from Haverhill. He left school at sixteen with no qualifications and entered a work training placement with sub contracted distribution company distributing Phonogram Records. His 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.〔Marc Almond, Tainted Life, Sidgwick & Jackson〕 Around this time he was banned from playing certain clubs due to his eccentricities. He 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. Other things that the public were not used to included playing six different records at the same time, causing a very intense sound.〔Page 111, Charles Neal, Tape Delay.〕 After the residency at the Drugstore, Stevo moved on to working a regular night at the Clarendon Hotel, Hammersmith.〔Malins, p. 13〕 The nights at the Clarendon were known as "Stevo's Electro Tunes" where bands like DAF, Fad Gadget, Last Dance, Naked Lunchbox and Boyd Rice played.〔Malins, p. 20〕 At this time Stevo regarded himself as an music anarchist in the music scene and felt it important for musical barriers to be broken down.〔 After these nights attracted interest Stevo was asked to compile an electronic music chart in the ''Record Mirror'', soon followed by his "Futurist Chart" in ''Sounds''. He did not like the term "Futurist", feeling the name was "a bit of a joke". The ''Sounds'' chart was filled with demos that were sent to him by new unknown bands.〔 In 1980, after realising he was receiving some very good material, he decided to put together a compilation album, the ''Some Bizzare Album''. . Stevo 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 records labels who knew how important the deal was to them.〔 Eccentric record contract signings included Test Department's deal, which was signed on a rocking-horse named Horace.〔 Stevo also was sent sweets every week as part of a deal with Phonogram Records. There is also the famous story of a teddy bear sent to a meeting, to clinch the deal for Soft Cell. The teddy was appropriately dressed as Robin Hood.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stevo Pearce」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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