Head-on: Memories of the Liverpool Punk Scene and the Story of the "Teardrop Explodes", 1976-82

Julian Cope? The very same.

Shenanigans in Tamworth, Liverpool and North America involving music, drugs, marshmallows and faulty van air-conditioning. How Cope and Co. managed to produce any work at all is a mystery, somewhat explained in this interesting and frank account of the rise and fall of The Teardrop Explodes. You don't necessarily need to know or enjoy Cope's music to appreciate his story. It helps that he's intelligent, insightful and can string his own words together without the mediation of a ghost writer.

what a trip. the definitive book about being a 17 year old punk, about Liverpool, about starting a band and changing the world, about drugs.