julian cope

man, i wish i'd written this (from a blue cheer piece julian cope wrote for his site head heritage):

The sound of the greatest rock‘n’roll is all the mysteries of your childhood, all the misheard conversations of your parents, all the glimpses of forbidden TV programmes, all the quoting of grown-up lyrics which mean nothing till they one day dawn on you as an adult....Rock‘n’roll is all your human encounters, good and bad; all the threats and beatings you receive AND give out as a kid; all your sexual encounters both with the opposite sex AND yourself. Rock‘n’roll is your dancing stomping ancestor self giving the finger to AND flicking the ‘V’s at your intellectual self - it’s the part of you at school assembly which sings hymns wailingly off-key and droning - the skyclad pagan Maypole dancer versus the prim and subservient sinner.