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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. --
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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.
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.
"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.
Alex considered his circumstances. It seemed his only option was to
disappear. If he didn't do so voluntarily, it appeared that there
were powers that would make him do so involuntarily. So begins Soul
searching. A tightly crafted, frighteningly plausible thriller
about controversial science, medical phenomena, tough moral choices
and spiritual integrity. Soul searching is very visual, wonderfully
cinematic storytelling presented through the engaging interactions
of a cast of unique and involving characters moving through both
familiar and exotic landscapes. The philosopher's stone. The elixir
of life. The quest for immortality. What if there was some degree
of truth embedded in these concepts? What if this piece of fiction,
like so many others, turns out to be less an exercise in
imagination and more one of extrapolation? Alex is an intellectual
man of faith, a devoted husband and an attentive father, struggling
to balance his passions for his chosen field of study and his Lord.
Caught in a relentless net of political controls and an expanding
scientific moral vacuum, Alex discovers that some things are not as
black and white as he might like, and that not everyone who is a
friend today will be a friend tomorrow. Whilst this is a fictional
account, the basic scientific principles and knowledge leading to
the story's remarkable conclusion are all too real. Indeed, this
last decade following the conception of the book has seen rapid
advances in molecular biology, DNA sequencing, bio-terrorism and
the study of near-death experiences, which only serve to increase
the credibility of the underlying rationale. And if it puts your
immortality outside of your own control, wouldn't you want to know?
Wouldn't you want to retake control? If so, read on. If
not-remember, you were warned.
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