Public Zone

Sean Lyons, Peter Goodwin, bassist Tony Adam and Florian Miksa on drums 

There were a number of bands and proffesional muscians who were flirting with punk/new wave around 1976/1977 and a number of them changed stream sometimes succesfully. Public Zone were not one of them and were formed from the ashes of a band called Metro who had released one album before splitting up. 

Public Zone were also short lived, releasing just one single and never playing live. The Police Wiki says “

Sean Lyons had previously lived in a house in Barnes with Stewart Copeland and asked him to play on their first single….Being produced by Hugh Murphy they recorded the songs Naive and Innocence at Sarm East Studios on 1977-09-11 (after rehearsing them the previous day). Stewart was asked to join the band, but he continued with his own little band The Police. The record was released in late October / early November 1977.”

By the time of the picture cover they looked a little more punky. And the song itself? Neat little riff and catchy… but punk? I doubt it.

The official band line up was Peter Godwin, Sean Lyons, Tony Adams and Florian Pilkington-Miksa, presumably in case the song was a hit. The band never performed live though as Peter Godwin and Sean Lyons chose to continue making music under their old band name Metro. Stewart Copeland who had changed stream from Curved Air did of course find success.



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