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Both bands recorded different versions of "Read It in Books" in the future, and Cope also re-recorded the track as a solo artist. In the summer of 1980, The Teardrop Explodes began recording their debut album, Kilimanjaro, at Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire. The sessions were interrupted by touring requirements, and also by internal dissension.
Aug 6, 2012 · The setting: 14 Rodney Street, Liverpool. Paul Simpson’s first floor bed-sit. "A hang-out and port of call for both the cool people and the crazies", as Julian Cope would later relate in his enormously entertaining autobiography, Head-On. Simpson, original keyboard player in The Teardrop Explodes, found the comic in the basement, left behind ...
Title Year Peak chart positions Album UK UK Indie IRE NZ "Sleeping Gas" 1979 — — — — Kilimanjaro "Bouncing Babies" — — — — "Treason (It's Just a Story)" 1980
May 3, 2016 · The Teardrop Explodes: Kilimanjaro UK CD [2000] Ha Ha I'm Drowning Sleeping Gas Treason Second Head Poppies In The Field Went Crazy Brave Boys Keep Their Promises Bouncing Babies Books The Thief Of Baghdad When I Dream Reward Kilimanjaro Strange House In The Snow Use Me Traison Sleeping Gas [live] My, oh my.
The Teardrop Explodes were just yet another example of the diversity and range of quality available in Britain's new wave scene of the time, representing its more psychedelic and 60s-alike edge. Treason is just brilliantly crafted pop.
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Andy Radek Bass 1982. The Teardrop Explodes were an English post-punk/neo-psychedelic band formed in Liverpool in the fall of 1978 and fronted by Julian Cope. The band took their name from a panel in the Marvel comic Daredevil #77. The band were signed as label acts and management clients to the up-and-coming Liverpool indie label Zoo Records ...
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May 28, 2023 · The Teardrop Explodes are one of the great lost bands of the age. While, commercially speaking, their flame burned bright but brief, the music they made either side of their window of fame was haunting, heartfelt, affecting and wilfully odd. Perfect candidates then for an in depth reappraisal. To this end, Teardrops are the subject of Culture ...
