Trevor Herion


Trevor Herion, born John Trevor Herion, was an Irish singer, born in Cork who formed part of the punk and new wave scenes in the 1970s and 1980s. He later became a solo artist, but was not commercially successful and died in 1988.

Life and career

During the late 1970s, he was lead singer in a locally successful pub band called "The B-52s", who later changed their name to "The Puritans" on discovering the existence of the similarly named US band. Failure to land a recording contract meant the band's dissolution but shortly after he was called to join as singer in a new wave band called The Civilians, comprised by Paul Simon on drums, Mark Scholfield on guitar and Michael French on bass. The band only released two singles: Made For Television/I See My Friends and without Herion or Simon and featuring Michael French on vocals In America/In Search Of Pleasure. After that, the band broke up.
By 1980 or 1981, Herion and Simon reunited in another band, The Fallout Club, alongside former Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club's Thomas Dolby and Matthew Seligman. They only released 3 singles, which were Falling Years/The Beat Boys, Dream Soldiers, Pedestrian Walkway, Wonderlust/Desert Song
After Fallout Club split up, Herion went solo. He released a number of singles and an unsuccessful album called Beauty Life, an album produced by Steve Levine. Nevertheless, an argument over the unauthorised remixing of a 7" version resulted in Levine taking his name off the album and refusing to promote it.
During the 1980s Herion began to suffer from severe depression. He died from suicide on 1 October 1988.