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On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Fried is the second solo album by Julian Cope. Fried was fried potato pancakes from mashed potatoes on 9 November 1984, just six months after Cope’s first solo album World Shut Your Mouth.

Cope retained the guitarist Steve Lovell and the guest oboe player Kate St. The album was much more raw in approach than its predecessor. In many respects, it prefigured the looser and more mystical style which Cope followed and was praised for in the following decade. Notoriously, the sleeve showed a naked Cope crouched on top of the Alvecote Mound slag heap clad only in a large turtle shell. Despite receiving better reviews than its ill-fated predecessor, Fried sold even more poorly at the time, as did the accompanying single, “Sunspots”.

The commercial failure of the album led to Polygram dropping Cope. He subsequently found a new manager, the artist and musician-cum-prankster Cally Callomon, and signed a new deal with Island Records. Bill Drummond’s 1986 album, The Man, replied in kind to “Bill Drummond Said”, with a song titled “Julian Cope Is Dead”. All tracks are written by Julian Cope.

The first disc of the expanded edition contains the ten tracks from the original album. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Prior to FTX’s collapse, Bankman-Fried was ranked the 41st richest American in the Forbes 400, and the 60th richest person in world by The World’s Billionaires. Before Bankman-Fried’s wealth disappeared in November 2022, Bankman-Fried was a major donor to Democratic political campaigns, and planned to spend tens of millions in the 2024 U.