Julian David Cope is an English rock musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator. Originally coming to prominence in 1978 as the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band The Teardrop Explodes, he has followed a solo career since 1983 and worked on musical side projects such as Queen Elizabeth, Brain Donor and Black Sheep. Cope is also a recognised authority on Neolithic culture, and an outspoken political and cultural activist with a noted and public interest in occultism and paganism. As an author and commentator, he has written two volumes of autobiography called Head-On and Repossessed; two volumes of archaeology called The Modern Antiquarian and The Megalithic European; and three volumes of musicology called Krautrocksampler, Japrocksampler; and Copendium: A Guide to the Musical Underground. 

October 21st, 1957 in Wales (Age 67)