![]() Drawing on a post-punk version of West Coast pop music (which gained the nickname of "bubblegum trance"), the band became part of a wave of neo-psychedelic Liverpool bands. In 1978, Cope formed the Teardrop Explodes with drummer Gary Dwyer, organist Paul Simpson and guitarist Mick Finkler, with himself as singer, bass player and principal songwriter. Mott Training College (now Liverpool John Moores University), and it was here that he first became involved in music. He played Oliver in Wilnecote High School's production of the musical. He grew up in Tamworth with his parents and his younger brother Joss. ![]() Cope was staying with his grandmother near Aberfan on his ninth birthday, the day of the Aberfan disaster of 1966, which he has described as a key event of his childhood.
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