Julian Cope

Julian Cope's highly acclaimed autobiography and its long-awaited sequel in one extraordinary volume. Contents: * Julian Cope shot to fame with eighties band 'Teardrop Explodes' during the Punk era. Hailed as a visionary by those people who recognise his genius and a madman by those who find him perplexing, he has become a cult figure in the music world. * Head-On has previously only been available via 'Head Heritage' Julian's own company. Repossesed picks up in 1983 where Head On ends and continues up until 1989. Written in Cope's inimitable style it is set to provoke the same kind of media excitement. * When Julian Cope published 'Head On' in 1994 he received astounding reviews: Visceral, ballsy, bitchy, brutal, beautifully written. Book of the year. Made my heart burst. -- The Observer ...an enthralling saga of bitchiness, betrayal and unrepentent debauchery. -- The Sunday Times (Books of the Year) As a glimpse of the essentially pathetic but amusing whims and eccentricities that lie behind the screwed down hairdos of rock musicians, it's equally essential reading. And as a genital -warts-and -all diary of madmen, it is simply supreme entertainment. -- N.M.E Cope never portrays himself as anything less than a self-serving, childish, whinging half-assed failure. He's wrong, of course, but it makes for insanely funny reading. -- Select

Head On/Repossessed

Japrocksampler

Looks at megalithic sites and monuments in Great Britain

A Pre-millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain : Including a Gazetteer to Over 300 Prehistoric Sites

The Modern Antiquarian

one heads guide to the grosse kosmische Musik

Krautrocksampler

"Welcome to Sardinia: my hell, my home, my prison, my meditation these past sixteen years. What a place to die. But that's precisely why I was back."When drugged-up Time Traveller and '80s musical burnout Rock Section and his fellow English hooligans get kidnapped during Italia '90, there are ruinous implications. But now Rock has returned to Sardinia one final time to settle some scores and uncover the truth. He believes only Dutch cult leader Judge Barry Hertzog, still incarcerated on the island for the crime, can provide the answers. But through prescription drugs, the persistence of his driver Anna and a quest for the hidden ancient doorways strewn around Sardinia's only highway, the 131, Rock will discover that a greater truth awaits him. Judgement, consequences, hoodwinking on a grand scale, Gnosticism versus agnosticism...131 is a Gnostic whodunit that pursues readers' memories of all previous fiction into a peat bog and impales them with seven-foot-long pikes.

One Three One

Eschewing the usual criteria of chart success or acknowledged influence, the Copendium - a collection of album reviews and themed track samplers - takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. The result is a feast of obscure and neglected masterworks that together form a surprising but entirely credible new tradition. Krautrock, motorik and post-punk, stoner and doom metal, occasionally even jazz, spoken word and hair metal: they are all represented in a wholly persuasive sequence. Cope is the perfect guide to this novel terrain: impeccably informed, passionate, insightful and deeply funny. The Copendium is his re-imagining of a useful canon of popular music, and it is set to become required reading. The Copendium is unlike anything you have read before.

Copendium

Julian Cope's highly acclaimed autobiography and its long-awaited sequel in one extraordinary volume. When Julian Cope published 'Head On' in 1994 he received astounding reviews: Visceral, ballsy, bitchy, brutal, beautifully written. Book of the year. Made my heart burst. -- The Observer ... an enthralling saga of bitchiness, betrayal and unrepentent debauchery. -- The Sunday Times (Books of the Year) Not only is the aarch-drude perfectly balanced mentally, but he has the longest and most detailed memory ( or the most extensive and exhaustive diary) in rock... As a glimpse of the essentially pathetic but amusing whims and eccentricities that lie behind the screwed down hairdos of rock musicians, it's equally essential reading. And as a genital -warts-and -all diary of madmen, it is simply supreme entertainment. -- N.M.E one of the funniest, blakest rock reads you could wish for... and throughout, Cope never portrays himself as anything less than a self-serving, childish, whinging half-assed failure. He's wrong, of course, but it makes for insanely funny reading. -- Select Head-On has previously only been available via 'Head Heritage' Julian's own company. 'Repossesed' pick

Repossessed

Head-on

Mike Watkinson

Pete Anderson

This new updated edition brings the Syd story right up to the present day.

Syd Barrett & the Dawn of Pink Floyd

Crazy Diamond

Julian Cope's long-awaited follow up to The Modern Antiquarian, his bestselling and critically acclaimed guide to ancient Britain. The Megalithic European takes us on a breathtaking journey around prehistoric Europe's first temples.

The 21st Century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe

The Megalithic European

Repossessed. Depressioni sciamaniche a Tamworth e Londra (1983-1989)-Head-on. La scena punk di Liverpool e la storia dei Teardrop Explodes (1976-82)

In the 1960s rock 'n' roll music began crossing the Atlantic Ocean—with The Beatles and The Who leading the British Invasion of the United States—and the Pacific Ocean, as American and European rock slowly began to take hold in Japan. This insightful study from visionary rock musician Julian Cope explores what really happened when Western music met Eastern shores. The clash between traditional Japanese values and the wild renegades of 1960s and 1970s rock 'n' roll is examined, and the seminal artists in Japanese post-World War II culture are all covered. From itinerate art-house poets to violent refusenik bands with penchants for plane hijacking, this is the story of the Japanese youths and musicians who simultaneously revolutionized a musical genre and the culture of a nation.

How the Post-war Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock'n'roll

JAPROCKSAMPLER, mitad libro de historia, mitad crítica musical inspiradísima y libérrima à la Lester Bangs, es un revelador estudio del rock y la música underground del Japón desde la posguerra hasta mediados de los setenta. Julian Cope —ex frontman de The Teardrop Explodes y artífice de una dilatada carrera musical en solitario— nos presenta, en un estilo que rezuma erudición, humor y pasión, un universo hasta ahora ignoto de bandas de iconoclastas de todo pelaje que produjeron algunos de los sonidos más alucinantes del rock de todos los tiempos. A partir de las peripecias de la música experimental de la escena jazzística de los cincuenta, pasando por el fenómeno del eleki —o la particular obsesión de los japoneses por el rock and roll made in USA y la guitarra eléctrica—, al estallido del llamado "group sounds" —como denominaban en el país del sol naciente al pop-rock que irrumpió tras la eclosión de los Beatles—, Cope ilumina, en la segunda parte de este volumen, la trayectoria de algunas de las bandas y músicos más extravagantes de la historia, como el inclemente feedback de guitarras y ruido blanco de Les Rallizes Denudés del heterodoxo Takeshi Mizutani, el hard rock de tintes orientalizantes de Flower Travellin' Band, el blues drogota y demencial de Speed, Glue & Shinki, la música inclasificable para artes escénicas de J. A. Caesar o el misticismo psicodélico de Taj Mahal Travellers, e infinidad de grupos más. El libro se complementa con un top 50, donde el autor selecciona y comenta los mejores álbumes del rock nipón de todos los tiempos. En definitiva, una obra mayúscula sobre un terreno tan inexplorado como fascinante como es la música underground del Japón.

Japrocksampler: Cómo el rock le voló la cabeza al Japón de posguerra

Julian Cope, eccentric and visionary rock musician, follows the runaway underground success of his book Krautrocksampler with Japrocksampler, a cult deconstruction of Japanese rock music, and reveals what really happened when East met West after World War Two. It explores the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock 'n' roll renegades of the 1960s and 70s, and tells of the seminal artists in Japanese post-war culture, from itinerant art-house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for plane hijacking.

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