Bleeding Hearts

Power Pop band from the West Midlands, UK.

With a lineup of Kevin Smith (songwriter, lead singer and rhythm guitar), Colin Garrett (lead guitar), Mark Morris (bass) and Gary Cotter (drums), Staffordshire band Bleeding Hearts released what turned out to be their only single in October 1980. Issued by Hednesford-based independent Crazy Plane, "This Is The Way...OK" received Radio One airplay from the likes of John Peel and daytime DJ Peter Powell. After the single, drummer Cotter was replaced by Mark Morris's brother Des. With the addition of a third sibling, guitarist/keyboardist Jim, the Morris Brothers broke away to become Balaam And The Angel, who signed to Virgin in the mid-Eighties.