Conversation so far:
What happened in the early years?
Dangers and Stephens had formed the English pop group Perennial Divide in 1986 with Paul Freeguard.
Did they release any albums?
They left Perennial Divide in 1988 to record a full Meat Beat album.
Was Meat Beat successful?
The tapes of what would have been the debut MBM album were claimed to have been destroyed in a studio fire before it could be released.

Question: How did they recover from the fire?
Self-contained rewrite: How did Meat Beat Manifesto recover from the fire?