Julian Cope

...where to start with Miles, just from word-of-mouth… but what about Glass, Reich, Riley?) Okay, this particular reviewer already owns Julian Cope's Japrocksampler and Krautrocksampler (beg for, borrow, or steal the latter…), as well as books...

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Julian Cope (born Julian David Cope, on 21 October 1957) is a British rock musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, and poet who came to prominence in 1978 as the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band The Teardrop Explodes.

In this article: Krautrocksampler, The Teardrop Explodes, Island Records, Japrocksampler, The Modern Antiquarian, Jehovahkill, Charlotte Anne, NME, and The Megalithic European

...(roughly 1969-1977); other artists featured in the film include Faust, Can, Harmonia, Popol Vuh, and Amon Duul II. If you're like me (or Julian Cope), watching this clip will give you a mentasm. I've never heard them be so honest in...

In this article: BBC, Harmonia, Radio-Activity, and Germany

...who was rewarded for his outstanding contribution to music. Thanking fellow musicians and institutions such as Damon Albarn, Julian Cope, John Peel and Pixie Lott, teen singing sensation, arrives at the Q Awards Ian Matthews, Chris...

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...with them - but there wasn't an easy way of getting hold of them. In the Eighties a lot of the bands I met were into comics. Julian Cope got the name for The Teardrop Explodes from Teardrop Explodes from the pages of Daredevil. Madness...

In this article: Bill Watterson, Frank Hampson, Dan Dare, Alan Moore, Marcus Morris, The Teardrop Explodes, Calvin and Hobbes, Action Comics, 2000ad, and Daredevil

...Charlotte Caffey (The Go-Go's) is 56. Movie director Catherine Hardwicke is 54. Actress-author Carrie Fisher is 53. Singer Julian Cope is 52. Rock musician Steve Lukather (Toto) is 52. Actor Ken Watanabe is 50. Actress Melora Walters is 49.

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...Lee Loughnane of Chicago is 63. Guitarist Charlotte Caffey of The Go-Go's is 56. Actress Carrie Fisher is 53. Singer Julian Cope is 52. Guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto is 52. Singer-bassist Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age) is...

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...collaboration between the duo Moebius and Roedelius and Michael Rother of Neu!, with Brian Eno guesting. The rabid fan enthusiasm of Julian Cope's book Krautrocksampler has contributed to the revival of interest in Harmonia, as has Eno's...

In this article: Tracks and Traces, Harmonia, Brian Eno, Krautrocksampler, Neu, Michael Rother, Tangerine Dream, Can, and Kraftwerk

...with the eerie Gothic melodrama of their self-titled debut. Further south in Liverpool, former Teardrop Explodes frontman Julian Cope was getting Fried, while Echo & The Bunnymen unveiled their masterpiece, the epic Ocean Rain -- which,...

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...Men (Charly/IA) Roky Erickson emerged from decades of dissolution in 2005, and has British dates this week. Twenty-five years back, when Julian Cope namedropped his band, you might score hissy vinyl of dubious provenance. Now here's a hefty...

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