Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Head-OnRepossessed by Head-On/Repossessed by Julian Cope. - Return to top of the page - See our review for fuller assessment. Review Summaries Source Rating Date Reviewer The Independent B+ 17/10/1999 . Time Out A 10/11/1999 Peter Carty. "There are pages in Repossessed , as in all Cope's work, where focus fades, and no rounded point is made. (. ) But as the outpouring of an extreme, inspirational voice -- its coughs and splutters resolutely included -- music's loss is reconfirmed as literature's unexpected gain." - The Independent. - Return to top of the page - Repossessed starts up where Head On left off. A bit older, a bit wiser, a bit more paranoid, Julian Cope retreated to Tamworth. He assumed The Teardrop Explodes' large, accumulated debt (one of the beauties of the music business is that you can be rich and destitute at the same time, losing tons of money simply being a success) and distanced himself from most of the old crowd, holing up with beloved Dorian (whom he married in 1984). Toy collecting became a major priority (Cope mentions the neat things -- model cars and the like -- he finds on various trips and outings throughout the book), but the music was also still in him. The fun stories behind the early solo albums -- World Shut your Mouth , Fried , Saint Julian , My Nation Underground , and Skellington -- are all here. Trying to learn from the sad demise of Syd Barrett's "total freefall tragedy" after he and Pink Floyd went their separate ways, Cope takes Barrett as his "anti-blueprint" -- with only limited success, one might add: Cope didn't go the way of Barrett, but he managed to get his fair share of pillorying press, accused of many forms of lunacy. The turtle-shell cover of Fried is explained -- Cope took to it like a second home apparently, waddling all over under it. Fortunately, Cope doesn't take this or many of his other unusual acts too seriously -- whether slashing his stomach to a stunned (and then nauseated) Japanese crowd or obsessing about toy cars or hiding in his house, the furniture piled up against the front door. Cope always maintains the self-deprecating humour: Head-On/Repossessed. which can install this ebook, i bestow downloads as a pdf, amazon dx, word, txt, ppt, rar and zip. There are many books in the world that can improve our knowledge. One of them is the book entitled Head-On/Repossessed By Julian Cope . This book gives the reader new knowledge and experience. This online book is made in simple word. It makes the reader is easy to know the meaning of the contentof this book. There are so many people have been read this book. 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But, convinced of their own talent and driven by ambition and the right connections, all of them would go on to appear on over the next few years: Mac with Echo & the Bunnymen and Wylie with (The Mighty) Wah! Others on that Liverpool scene included Pete ‘You Spin Me Round’ Burns, Lightning Seed and producer , Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer Budgie, and Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford, who would later form one of the biggest selling British bands of the mid-80’s, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The Teardrop Explodes burned out shortly after a couple of albums and top twenty hits in ’80-81. Head On contains plenty excess, with the band and their entourage spiralling out of control on tour and Cope following Eurovision winners Bucks Fizz onto the Top of the Pops stage to perform Passionate Friend, while on acid. The memoir has plenty accounts of his drug consumption and subsequent experiences, as Cope became a sort of Syd Barrett figure for the 80’s generation. Yet, it is well written and really entertaining, with short chapters that make you want to have just one more blast. The second volume, Repossesed, takes us up to the end of the 80’s and the recording of albums such as My Nation Underground and Skellington. Cope seems frustrated by his portrayal in the music press as an acid casualty, but did he not play up to this reputation? His second solo album was called ‘Fried’ and the sleeve had a photo of Cope crawling on all fours below a giant a turtle shell, next to a toy truck with the word ‘Fried’ emblazoned on its side. The truck itself would be abandoned in the undergrowth of the home near Tamworth he ‘retired to’ in his mid twenties after the wheels came off the Explodes juggernaut. His obsession with toy car collecting is well explored in Repossessed, which is subtitled ‘Shamanic Depressions in Tamworth and London (1983-89)’. On the whole, I prefer this second volume. It’s more personal, far from a rock star biography at times, as Julian descends from the heights and tries to rebuild his life and career in rural Staffordshire. Yes, there is still some touring(the odd mad stint in Japan), tales of drug exploits and groupees, but much of the time it’s about taking stock in the Midlands, with his American wife, or hanging out with close friends. Cope is able to gradually get back on track and keep making music, regardless of whether it sells on a grand scale or not. In fact, his artistic integrity and uncompromising attitude were often a bone of contention with record companies. He claims to have pulled the plug on his song East Easy Rider being used in a Levi’s ad. As ever, this kind of book gives the author the chance to slag off those they have fallen out with (Mac from the Bunnymen or ex-Teardrop band members in this case), but Cope comes across as one of the more intriguing and amusing personalities of the era. In these personal memoirs, he is always willing to share his knowledge and passion for leftfield music and other dimensions with those who want to go along on the trip. Head On/Repossessed. Julian Cope’s highly acclaimed autobiography and its long-awaited sequel in one extraordinary volume. Julian Cope shot to fame with eighties band ‘Teardrop Explodes' during the punk era. Hailed as a visionary by those who recognise his genius and a madman by those who find him perplexing, he is one of the music industry’s most intriguing cult figures. Head-On/Repossessed is written in Cope’s own inimitable style and follows his journey through a time of incredible change – within the music industry and his own life. Head-On was proclaimed Book of the Year by the Sunday Times and the Observer upon its publication in 1994 (‘my heart burst’ said its reviewer). The book’s fame, reputation and incredible reception have only been heightened since then. Head-On now has an irrefutable place in the canon of musical literature. Repossesed, the second part of Cope’s incredible story, delves back into the turmoil of the 80s music scene, and Cope’s solo career. Its opening whirls back to 1983 and, on the succeeding pages, we see the glittering 80s years play out through Cope’s singular, unique gaze, culminating in the writing of his first autobiography. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. It's a long time since Julian Cope had his 15 minutes of mainstream fame, fronting the Teardrop Explodes with their brassy, extravagant masterpiece Reward . But over the last two decades he has maintained an impressive cult following, largely due to his mesmerising live performances--and more to the point, maintained an undiminished sense of his own importance, which has led to two, bulky volumes of his autobiography. Head-On: Memoires of the Liverpool Punk Scene and the story of the Teardrop Explodes (1976-82) was published, acclaimed and lost to posterity in 1994; now thankfully it's been republished, back-to-back (literally--this is a book you can finish, turn upside down, and start again) with a sequel: Repossessed: Shamanic Depressions in Tamworth & London (1983-89) , which leads us through his 1980s solo career. As the grandiose subtitles indicate, Cope writes on an epic scale, but his terms of reference are unapologetically personal. Much of Repossessed deals, bizarrely, with Pete De Freitas (the Bunnymen 's drummer) weaving his way across America, not chemically unaided--a story which is relayed via transatlantic phone to Cope ensconced in Tamworth, like some postmodern, virtual Kerouac. Non-Cope devotees might find some of this rather allusive, not to say elusive, but there's no doubting the man's power with the pen, and soon enough you'll be there in the front row, throwing your knickers onstage. Or the literary equivalent. -- Alan Stewart. Praise for Head-On/Reposessed: ‘Visceral, ballsy, bitchy, brutal, beautifully written.’ The Obersver, Book of the Year. ‘An enthralling saga of bitchiness, betrayal and unrepentent debauchery’ Sunday Times, Book of the Year. 'Wondrous memoirs of fleeting stardom and LSD-induced psychosis.’ Q, 50 Best Music Books Ever (2001) 'Hilarious, observant and deeply subversive.' i-D. 'Considered and self-deprecating. Mighty.' Time Out. 'Repossessed. is one of the best books about the 80s ever written and without doubt the best book about toy cars, hermiting, integrity and drug paranoia.' The Guardian. 'Cope's passion and intelligence are well served by a vein of self-deprecating wit.' The Telegraph. 'Cope's rocking writing at its most infectious, moving and hilarious.' NME.