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 Carole Pope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carole Pope (born August 6, 1950 in Manchester, England) is a Canadian rock singer, whose provocative blend of hard-edged new wave rock with explicit homoerotic and BDSM-themed lyrics made her one of the first openly lesbian pop stars in the world.
Pope was raised in Scarborough, Ontario, where she met her longtime musical partner, Kevan Staples at an audition for another band.
Pope often performed in leather pants and bondage attire, and was for a time romantically involved (although privately) with Dusty Springfield.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carole_Pope   (242 words)

  
 CLGA NPC: Carole Pope
All that was in the future when Carole Pope moved from Manchester, England to Canada with her parents when she was a toddler.
Carole became enamoured with the leather -bondage image in the gay community, the inspiration for the band "Rough Trade" she and Kevan formed in 1974.
The music, songs and Carole's provocative stage performances ushered in the New Music era in Toronto and a sexual adventure in music and fashion that was a welcome diversion from the norm.
www.clga.ca /About/NPC/PopeC-093.htm   (290 words)

  
 Feature - The Coast (JULY 21 - JULY 28 2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
By the time Pope and Staples teased the airwaves with their biggest hit “High School Confidential” in 1980, lines were forming around the block to hear the duo’s hard-edged new wave.
Although most of the general public thought Pope was taking on the role of a horny young lad when she sang “She makes me cream my jeans when she comes my way,” it was actually the first time a woman sang about her lust for another on Canadian radio.
Back when Pope was singing about the “cool blonde scheming bitch,” the idea of a cable series about lesbians living the glamourous life in Los Angeles would have ended up in a pile of crumpled paper or as a political protest.
thecoast.ns.ca /issues/210705/feature3.html   (1186 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Carole Pope, 50 and loving menopause
Carole Pope - the lewd, lesbian lyricist of Rough Trade - says she's surprised she remembers the 1970s.
Pope, now 50, said she also recounts, the many, many parties, binges, sexual adventures and other unconventional indulgences she undertook over the years.
Pope now makes her home in Los Angeles, where she is an AIDs activist and, she added, enjoying menopause.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1025828083197_21237283   (294 words)

  
 Profile | Carole Pope
Pope made a reputation as a goddess of sexual raunch and innuendo, performing in bondage gear and see-through plastic pants while Madonna was still in short pants, Rough Trade did songs whose heavy sexual overtones often guaranteed sparse airplay.
Pope's candor in Anti Diva is startling: from her "stinkin' childhood" to the large quantities of drugs that fueled the earliest explorations of Rough Trade, loads and loads of sex as well as memorable relationships and friendships.
And others were: Well, Carole Pope can't write, but I'm going to quote all these lines that she wrote in the book.
www.bluecoupe.com /profiles/pope.html   (2686 words)

  
 Eye - Wax of the week - 04.17.03
Pope actually contacted BugEyed out of the blue -- and her voicemail came as a pleasant surprise to label heads Jeff Renton and Ray Starr (who also record together as GenderFix), who happen to be huge fans of her original material.
Currently, Pope is trying to get out an album out that she started two years ago and is hoping to do more live gigs; she's playing Lula Lounge on April 30 in a stripped-down acoustic guitar and loops set.
As far as future dance mixes go, Pope says, "If a DJ that I admire wants to do one, I'm all for it." In the meantime, she's working on a second career: as a journalist.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.17.03/thebeat/wax.html   (363 words)

  
 Music: November 23, 2000
Carole Pope, Canadian icon of '80s pop, has now chimed in with 80,000-odd words of her own, titled Anti-Diva.
Pope, on the line from her West Hollywood home, says there were two really painful parts of writing the book.
Pope doesn't spill a lot of ink pondering "High School Confidential," the risqué song she recorded with her band Rough Trade, in which she sang openly of lusting after a fellow hot femme student.
www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2000/112300/music1.html   (679 words)

  
 Rough Trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From their meeting at Cedarbrae High School in Scarborough, Ontario, singer Carole Pope and guitarist Kevan Staples began working together as a musical team.
In 1968 they worked as a duo in the coffeefouses of Yorkville creating an aggressive brand of bawdy music that would be the precursor to their next career makeover in 1970 as 'O' (named after the book 'The Story Of O') and as the sexually charged Bullwhip Brothers in 1971.
But the times were changing and what had once been cutting edge and risque on the New Wave front had been replaced by the video age and Carole Pope's 'bitch goddess' image was beginning wear thin on the less tolerant politically correct urban music scene.
www.canoe.ca /JamMusicPopEncycloPagesR/rough.html   (443 words)

  
 Shaun Proulx Talks to Carole Pope
In it, Pope describes with trademark unapologetic frankness her time in Toronto, including hanging out in Yorkville in it's hippy heyday and the druggy early Rough Trade days.
Key in Pope's story is her relationship with British legend Dusty Springfield, who died of breast cancer in 1999.
Pope has just returned to her New York City home having spent ten days in a Toronto studio recording her upcoming album.
www.gayguidetoronto.com /1_shaun/carole_pope.html   (379 words)

  
 Diva Diaries: Carole Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Jack Pope, Canadian, had moved there in the 1940s, met ballroom dancing a beautiful dark eyed blonde and married her.
His family was run around, too: Montreal, a small town near Hamilton, and all over Toronto from the west end to "the depths of Scarborough." One locale she had in common with Sky.
Their "most infamous gig," Carole writes, was also in 1976, "six nights a week, three shows a night, for nine weeks," at the Chimney.
webhome.idirect.com /~rbebout/divas/dcarole.htm   (3598 words)

  
 Anti Diva by Carole Pope
Throughout her career, Carole Pope has blazed a trail for the diva and anti-diva in all of us, and here she offers a no-holds-barred look at her adventures in the music scene – on the concert stage, in the recording studio, and in the bedroom.
Known for ushering Canada from the punk movement of the 1970s to the new wave sound of the 1980s with Rough Trade, she candidly shares her thoughts on AIDS, sexuality and sexual politics, and the new breed of music divas that dominates the charts today.
As the lead singer of the band Rough Trade, Pope and her songwriting partner Kevan Staples pioneered new wave music in Canada, and Pope became an artist of enduring mystique.
www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679311378   (760 words)

  
 Carole Pope Solo Discography
Pope sings backing vocal on one cut, "Animal," on this LP by the singer formerly known as Lisa Dal Bello.
In February, 1985, 53 of Canada's top performers (including Carole Pope) gathered to record the song "Tears Are Not Enough," in an effort to generate aid for famine victims in Africa.
A music video of this song by Carole Pope, which was originally featured in the movie Bound and Gagged: A Love Story, is included in Teasers, a VHS home video compilation (NTSC format) which is available from Metro Video.
www.laventure.net /tourist/rt_disc_carole.htm   (1260 words)

  
 Diva Diaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
But they are divas, well known; Sky locally, Carole perhaps more widely -- if poorly known for their true gifts.
Both are pioneers of the erotic: Pope a pervert before her time; Gilbert too queer for times of "respectable" gay smarm.
Carole herself wearied of it, saying late on: "I'm so over me, I don't want to write about me. That me was so self- obsessed." If, like Sky, with talents worthy of obsession.
webhome.idirect.com /~rbebout/divas/divas.htm   (689 words)

  
 A Brief History of Rough Trade With Carole Pope and Kevan Staples
Carole Pope was born outside of Manchester, England, on August 6, 1950.
Carole put it this way: "Just when everyone was experiencing the dry heaves from '70s music, an underground phenomena breathed life into the stagnant music scene.
Carole Pope's upcoming tour schedule is currently posted on carolepope.com, which also offers music and related items for sale.
www.laventure.net /tourist/rt_hist.htm   (2524 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00456652   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Known for their sexual lyrics and provocative act, Carole Pope and Rough Trade ushered Canada from the punk movement of the 1970s to the new wave sound of the 1980s and vaulted themselves into the international music scene.
Attracting what she calls "a diversified audience, and other artists who were practising their own forms of nihilism," Pope learned how to preen with the best of them and let the raunch shine through.
Throughout her career, Carole Pope has blazed a trail for the diva and anti-diva in all of us.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random044/00456652.html   (213 words)

  
 Tower Records - Transcend - Carole Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Transcend, Pope's latest weapon, is explosive, electronica that swaggers with rhythmic confidence while Pope's husky vocals both dare and deliver with the swelling abandon for which she's known.
Pope's last single All Touch on Bugeyed Records  garnered rave reviews and heavy rotation on  Canadian radio and clubs in NYC and Europe." She is the author of a best selling autobiography entitled Anti Diva published by Random House.
Carole Pope has produced what is probably the raunchiest, trashiest, funniest autobiography ever penned by a Canadian celebrity." -Paul Gessell, The Edmonton JournalThe Vancouver SunOttawa Citizen The Telegram (St. John's)
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=3224286   (613 words)

  
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Copies of the Recommended Order were also served upon counsel for the Petitioner, Carole C. Pope (“Petitioner”), and the Co-Respondents, Clifford and Maria Ray (the “Rays”).
Pope's duplexes during a storm event such as a 100-year storm.
Because of the shore-parallel dimension of the proposed structure (84 feet), storm-generated waves and storm surge would be concentrated into the relatively narrow gap between the proposed structure and the duplexes.
www.dep.state.fl.us /legal/Final_Orders/2004/DEP04-0364.doc   (4824 words)

  
 Rough Trade (band) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The band are most famous for their 1981 hit "High School Confidential", one of the first explicitly (A resident of Lesbos) lesbian-themed (Click link for more info and facts about Top 40) Top 40 hits in the world.
The band began in 1968, when (Click link for more info and facts about Carole Pope) Carole Pope and Kevan Staples began performing as "O".
The band, through their combination of hard-edged new wave rock and raw sexuality (Pope often performed in (The state of being under the control of another person) bondage attire), became a popular draw on Toronto's live music circuit through their regular shows at Grossman's.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rough_trade_(band).htm   (325 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Pope, Carole
Carole Pope doesn't seem to spend too much time stressing over her upcoming performances.
Long before Madonna made it trendy to shock people with her in-your-face sexuality, Carole Pope was the ultimate shock-rocker.
From the time the England-born, Toronto-raised singer started up the Canadian new wave group Rough Trade with pal Kevan Staples back in the mid-1970s -- evolving from previous groups O and The Bullwhip Brothers -- Pope was donning bondage attire, tight leather pants and T-shirts bearing S&M scenes.
jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/P/Pope_Carole   (143 words)

  
 Grand Pope Tarkin - Uncyclopedia
Grand Pope Tarkin, also known as Tarkin the Merciless, reigned with evil in the Vatican between 1896 and 1937 after deposing the Pope Sixtus LXVI, also known as the Anti-Pope.
Most notable of Pope Tarkin's achievements was the destruction of the blasphemous planet Alderaan.
He once fought some guy with a pipe to the death.
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 ehMac.ca - Carole Pope... On Train 48?!
and saw Carole Pope guesting as herself on Train 48.
Pope and Rough Trade were an integral part of my musical world...
There was a good line tonight where a couple of the guys made a bet, what celebrity it was, Carole Pope was the correct answer and the guy say 'Awh I thought it was Pat Benitar !?!'
www.ehmac.ca /showthread.php?t=21211   (340 words)

  
 Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 00456652   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher.
With three Juno Awards, a Genie Award, and four Gold and two Platinum records to her credit, Carole Pope (top, with Divine; above, with Anne Murray) is an icon of transgressive music.
Carole Pope now lives in West Hollywood, California.
www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/random052/00456652.html   (158 words)

  
 Shaun Proulx Talks to Carole Pope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I guess it feels like a weight has been lifted and so it's nice to go into a recording situation with that feeling.
When we met for the first time on Pride Day last year and spent the afternoon together, I was surprised not to have seen a really aggressive personality, but rather someone who is quite shy and quiet.
Carole Pope will be appearing Saturday, May 4th at Hugh's Room 2261 Dundas Street West at 8:30 p.m.
www.gayguidetoronto.com /1_shaun/carole_pope2.htm   (1638 words)

  
 NPR : Latino Pope Prospects
News & Notes with Ed Gordon, April 18, 2005 · As Catholic Cardinals begin the secret process of choosing a successor to Pope John Paul II, there has been speculation that the new pope could come from Africa or Latin America.
With a growing Latino Catholic population, many see tremendous benefit in electing a Latin American pope.
Reporter Carole King visits one of Manhattan's Latino-majority Catholic churches.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4604913   (138 words)

  
 Canadian Corporate News: Chapters presents Carole Pope at Lee's Palace, Pop icon launches autobiography with on-stage ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Canadian Corporate News: Chapters presents Carole Pope at Lee's Palace, Pop icon launches autobiography with on-stage performance.@ HighBeam Research
Chapters presents Carole Pope at Lee's Palace, Pop icon launches autobiography with on-stage performance.
Friday, November 24th: Canadian music legend Carole Pope of Rough Trade who produced hit singles like High School Confidential, launches her autobiography ANTI DIVA, with a special musical performance, Monday, November 27th at Lee's Palace 529 Bloor Street West (at Bathurst), Toronto, with Daniel Richler as special guest host.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:67331698&refid=ink_tptd_np   (220 words)

  
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Subject: Carole Pope njc Hey Jimmy and the handful of other Rough Trade fans, I picked up Carole Pope's new autobiography, AntiDiva, this weekend, and it is a hoot so far -- full of name-dropping and droll bitchiness, just what you would expect from her.
She says something about catching Joni do "Circle Game" in Toronto, and being floored at how good she was.
She said something like "right then, the mold for every woman to appear at Lilith was formed" or something like that.
www.smoe.org /lists/joni/v2001.n001   (4032 words)

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