The Teardrop Explodes: Kilimanjaro: Deluxe Edition | CD review

LSD lover and Princess Di eulogiser Julian Cope was once almost sunshine pop's golden boy. Alexis Petridis rewinds to a superb debutThe 30th anniversary reissue of the Teardrop Explodes' Kilimanjaro recently spurred one heritage-rock magazine to ask the band's former frontman Julian Cope if he would ever return to writing pop music. It seems a fair enough query given Kilimanjaro's success: it spawned a top 10 hit in Reward, spent 35 weeks on the charts and displayed such commercial promise that ...

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