Greatness and perfection
|
I'm reading these two volumes for the second time and have to agree with all the previous reviewers. A fantastic read - funny, scary, gobsmacking, mad, very touching and, also, very honest. Cope might be regarded as a bit of an egomaniac, but the book has its fair share of self-doubt and self-depracation. Head-On is the better volume, at least for me. Mainly because, as a previous reviewer has said, I can remember and relate to many of the events, whereas Repossessed is off the scale of most people's experiences, although no less interesting as a result. For anyone whose formative years include the late 70s/early 80s, this should strike many chords. If you were a Bunnymen/Teardrop fan it will do so much more. His account of the rise of the Teardrops and his relationship with Ian ("Duke McCool"!) McCulloch, is particularly fascinating, and the way in which this book is written suggests it is nothing less than a completely honest recollection of events as Cope saw, experienced and recollected them (albeit after 1981 through a drug-induced haze most of the time).
In short, I can't recommend this book highly enough. Buy it, put on Kilimanjaro/Wilder and hold on tight: it's going to be a bumpy ride!
|
|
|
cool
|
|
Probably the best, most candid and funny rock memoir out there from rocks last true visionary... today music's all about media posturing and being a celebrity.
|
|
|
Went Crazy
|
This book confirmed everything i wanted rockstars to be, fallible, gullible and off their rockers with a healthy splash of genius thrown in. This book is (perhaps almost) on a parr with the late great HST's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Even the reviews are interesting. I just hope he gets around to writing the later parts of his insane tale now hes started touring again.
As an earlier reviewer suggested, you dont have to be a Cope fan to read this book, i leant it to all my friends who hated him but loved the book, two of whom nicked it from me... i have yet to buy a third copy.
Had Sleeping Gas never been the hit it was, we may have had the Bill Hicks of literature on our hands. Anyway, enjoy!
|
|
|
If Shakespeare had been a krautrocker...
|
|
... he couldn't have written better books than these. They not only tell an incredible story. They also contain some of the best writing you can ever read about rock music, dangerous car games, eating acid faster than Elvis got through burgers, love, hate - and courage in the face you extreme weirdness. Julian Cope is often criticised for arrogance. When you read this, you'll understand. There's nothing inflated about his self-opinion. He's just a genius.
|
|
|
It All Makes Sense Now
|
|
I've always loved the album "Kilimanjaro". Of all that post-punk era stuff. That album never ages for me. This book will take you the reader on an incredible journey. It's mad, bad and sometimes sad. It even weirded me out at times. Whoa!
|
|
|
United States | 
United Kingdom | 
Canada