Daniel Ash, his friend David J. Haskins and Haskins’ younger brother Kevin had played together in various bands since childhood such as Jam and Jackplug & the Sockets, playing cover songs by the Rolling Stones and the Beatles . Ash initially tried unsuccessfully to convince his school friend Peter Murphy to join him in a band. According to Ash: “Pete didn’t think about it at all, it wasn’t on his mind as such.” Ash’s band the Craze performed several times around Northampton in 1978. When the Craze dissolved, Ash once again tried to convince Murphy to join him, simply because Ash thought that Murphy had the right look for a band. Murphy, who was working in a printing factory, agreed to try it, although he had never written any lyrics or music. During their first rehearsal, he co-wrote the song “In the Flat Field”.
the Craze performed several times around Northampton
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