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Julian Cope
English musician and author / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Julian David Cope (born 21 October 1957) is an English[1] musician and author. He was the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes and has followed a solo career since 1983 in addition to working on musical side projects such as Queen Elizabeth, Brain Donor and Black Sheep.
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Birth name | Julian David Cope |
Born | (1957-10-21) 21 October 1957 (age 66) Deri, Glamorgan, Wales |
Genres | Rock |
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Years active | 1978–present |
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Website | www |
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Period | 1982–present |
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Cope is also an author on Neolithic culture, publishing The Modern Antiquarian in 1998, and a political and cultural activist with a public interest in occultism and paganism. He has written two volumes of autobiography, Head-On (1994) and Repossessed (1999); two volumes of archaeology, The Modern Antiquarian (1998) and The Megalithic European (2004); and three volumes of musicology, Krautrocksampler (1995), Japrocksampler (2007); and Copendium: A Guide to the Musical Underground (2012).