Srdjan Jul

Srđan Jul, born Srđan Miodragović in Belgrade in 1958, is a Serbian singer, guitarist and composer of the Yugoslav pop-rock scene. He went to the Josip Slavenski secondary music school in Belgrade, and around 1973 he reportedly played with John McLaughlin of the Mahavishnu Orchestra in Belgrade.

He started out on guitar in 1976 in the acoustic jazz band Mirni ljudi, founded by Vlajko Lalić, and played briefly with Smak in 1978, the year Dado Topić joined them. On Topić's 1979 double album Neosedlani he played acoustic guitar on "Let 305" and "Rock 'N' Roll Mama". That year he moved to London for about three years, studying music theory at the Royal College and jazz guitar with Dave Cliff. Back home he played on Oliver Mandić's albums Zbog tebe bih tucao kamen (1982) and Dođe mi da vrisnem tvoje ime (1985).

In 1985 he released his only solo album, Za tobom lud, on PGP RTB. He wrote, arranged and produced all nine songs, and "Koketa" became his best-known song. At the MESAM festival that December he sang "Samo za nju", and wrote and arranged "Ne mogu ubiti ljubav", second place for Dado Topić, and "Fantastično putovanje" for Slađana Milošević. In 1986 he wrote all the music for Milan Živković's film Crna Marija, which he called the first Yugoslav rock film, and played on Kornelije Kovač's Sampled Moonlight alongside Vlatko Stefanovski. He also played guitar on "Mandarina i banana" (1990), the duet of Oliver Mandić and Marina Perazić.

After the wars began, Srđan Jul went back to England to work as a producer and studio musician. From 1997 to 1999 he played guitar in the English gothic rock band The Sisters of Mercy under the name Mike Varjak, writing music for "Suzanna" and "Will I Dream?", and late in 1999 he joined the rock band Jackie on Accid. His last work in Yugoslavia was on Fen X's 1997 album Ljubav traje dugo.