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As outlined in the Peel-narrated TV documentary Rock Family Trees: The New Merseybeat, Julian Cope had been in earlier Liverpool bands with Ian McCulloch (later Echo & The Bunnymen), Pete Wylie (Wah!) and Pete Burns (Dead Or Alive), while Teardrop Explodes co-managers Dave Balfe (who eventually joined the band), and Bill Drummond (later KLF) had both been in Big In Japan. The latter pair also ran the Zoo label that released the first three Teardrop singles, which were all played by Peel, before the band signed to Mercury. Balfe and guitarist Alan Gill both had spells with Dalek I.

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  • As outlined in the Peel-narrated TV documentary Rock Family Trees: The New Merseybeat, Julian Cope had been in earlier Liverpool bands with Ian McCulloch (later Echo & The Bunnymen), Pete Wylie (Wah!) and Pete Burns (Dead Or Alive), while Teardrop Explodes co-managers Dave Balfe (who eventually joined the band), and Bill Drummond (later KLF) had both been in Big In Japan. The latter pair also ran the Zoo label that released the first three Teardrop singles, which were all played by Peel, before the band signed to Mercury. Balfe and guitarist Alan Gill both had spells with Dalek I.
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  • As outlined in the Peel-narrated TV documentary Rock Family Trees: The New Merseybeat, Julian Cope had been in earlier Liverpool bands with Ian McCulloch (later Echo & The Bunnymen), Pete Wylie (Wah!) and Pete Burns (Dead Or Alive), while Teardrop Explodes co-managers Dave Balfe (who eventually joined the band), and Bill Drummond (later KLF) had both been in Big In Japan. The latter pair also ran the Zoo label that released the first three Teardrop singles, which were all played by Peel, before the band signed to Mercury. Balfe and guitarist Alan Gill both had spells with Dalek I. In 1979, Peel invited the band to do a session for his show, prompting front man Julian Cope to write the song Reward, with the lyrics "Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the news". The single went to number 6 in the UK chart in 1981.[1] After the band split, Peel kept an interest in Julian Cope's music solo career through the 80's and 90's. Former keyboard player Paul Simpson formed Peel session band the Wild Swans (who reached #10 in the 1982 Festive Fifty with 'Revolutionary Spirit'). In 2016, Cope attended at a Classic Album Sundays event at John Peel Centre in Stowmarket to discuss the Teardrop Explodes debut LP 'Kilimanjaro'.[2] [3]
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