By the end of 1978, as a matter of fact, Hopper had stopped playing (he didn't even take his bass out of its case for over a year!). During the next few years, he played very little music,
and spent most of his time writing, both as a journalist and a novelist. For a few months, he even earned his living driving a taxi cab in Canterbury. His only recorded output between 1979 and 1984 was a couple of duo albums (one with Alan Gowen in 1980, another with Richard Sinclair in 1983), a gig and session for Gilli Smyth's Mother Gong, and a demo recording (”Iron Lady”) by the short-lived North and South, featuring Mike Travis (vocals), Rick Biddulph (guitar and vocals) - another track was recorded with Amanda Parsons on backing vocals.
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