Peggy Suicide (Cope's Notes #8)

PEGGY SUICIDE Cope’s Notes #8 could be the killer: the downfall of Margaret Thatcher against the rise of Julian Cope through New Age thought, fierce London cycling, and a total obsession with capturing the essence of Rave, On-the-One Soul, and the compelling Baggy Beat of his youthful UK contemporaries. 

Read through gales of laughter as Cope’s fights with his record company extract from him the most potent music of his career thus far. 52 pages of autobiographical exactitude place PEGGY SUICIDE into the bizarre UK context of early '90s New Age agitated city-dweller vexation: Ecstasy, riots, dolphins, crop circles – it’s all here. 

Then there’s the 39-minute accompanying CD. Highlights include five songs of early ‘pre-enlightened’ material, and Cope’s wonderful ‘A Poll Tax Serenade’ medley. 

The biggest Cope’s Notes yet, this fabulous and handsomely bound release also features brand new photos of the original carnival-sized PEGGY SUICIDE artwork – nowadays kept safely under-wraps in Head Heritage Storeroom 5. 

1. I Don't Wanna Kill You, I Just Want to Cramp Your Style
2. Peggy Suicide is a Jung-kie
3. You're Ugly & Your Mother Dresses You Funny
4. You Remind Me of You
5. Senile Get
6. A Poll Tax Serenade (3-part medley)
7. Pristeen (Rolo's Poll Tax Rehearsal)
8. Leperskin (Fukuoka '91)