Julian Cope

Julian Cope
Cope performing in 2003
Background information
Birth name	Julian David Cope
Born	(1957-10-21) 21 October 1957 (age 66) Deri, Glamorgan, Wales
Genres	Rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter musician author antiquarian
Instruments	Vocals guitar bass keyboards
Years active	1978–present
Labels	Def American Echo Island Mercury Zoo Head Heritage
Member of	Queen Elizabeth Black Sheep
Formerly of	The Teardrop Explodes Crucial Three Brain Donor
Website	www.headheritage.co.uk
Writing career
Period	1982–present
Subjects	Musicology sociology poetry

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.

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).