I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didn't cause them any later embarrassment.

Biography


Early life
Cope’s family lived in Tamworth Staffordshire but he was born in Deri where his mother's parents lived. The two former bandmates would maintain a frequently antagonistic rivalry from then on often carried out in public or in the press. Cope however has strenuously resisted taking advantage of any nostalgic and commercial opportunities to reunite the band.

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 (1994) and Repossessed (1999) two volumes of archaeology called The Modern Antiquarian (1998) and The Megalithic European (2004) and two volumes of musicology called Krautrocksampler (1995) and Japrocksampler (2007).