Zoo Records
Balfe and Drummond, having met while playing together in Big In Japan, founded the Zoo record label in 1978 in order to release Big in Japan's posthumous EP From Y to Z and Never Again. The label went on to sign and release the early work of The Teardrop Explodes and Echo & the Bunnymen.
Balfe and Drummond did their production work under the name of The Chameleons, and also released the singles "Touch" and "The Lonely Spy" - credited to Lori and The Chameleons - on the Zoo label, later licensing them to Sire/Korova.
Though they released a few other artists, the Teardrops & the Bunnymen grew to take up most of their time and eventually, due to lack of finance, they signed both bands to major London Record Companies and continued to manage them, while letting the label fade into inactivity.
Balfe and Drummond's publishing company, Zoo Music, signed many of the above and below artists, as well as multi-million selling acts The Proclaimers in 1987, and Drummond's band The KLF.
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