I’ve dressed the same way since 1965", says John Cooper Clarke


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After a 40 odd year career, it's perhaps surprising that John Cooper Clarke has only actually released two books of poetry. The first, Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt was released in 1983. The second The Luckiest Guy Alive, came 35 years later. His career has been more as a performer, though he insists that it's important to write the.


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Salford Council The poet says he is "totally knocked out" to receive the Freedom Of Salford honour Cooper Clarke's poems were accompanied by backing music produced by Martin Annett, who worked.


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John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet and comedian who styled himself as a " punk poet" in the late 1970s. [1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums. Around this time, he performed on stage with several punk and post-punk bands and continues to perform regularly.


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John Cooper Clarke's poems are in GCSE English anthologies across the country. But prior to his influence on education - and the dent he's made in contemporary pop culture - Cooper Clarke was a seminal figure of the punk movement. He initially earned his chops opening gigs for the Sex Pistols and The Clash, before becoming a support act.


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Poems. (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space (I've Got A Brand New) Track Suit 23rd 36 hours A Distant Relation Action Man Apart From The Revolution Are You The Business Arts N' Crafts Beasley Street Belladonna Bronze Adonis Bunch Of Twigs Burnley Concussion Conditional Discharge Cycle Accident Day My Pad Went Mad Day the World Stood Still.


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John Cooper Clarke, the poet and performer who became famous during the punk rock era of the late 1970s, has said he didn't want to quit taking heroin and weaned himself off the drug for the sake.


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John Cooper Clarke has long declined almost every interview request on the grounds that he has "no new product". His last original solo LP was released 27 years ago, which is all the more.


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John Cooper Clarke. Portrait by Bryan Ledgard. It was starting to look like a bright new world in 1965. Musically and stylistically it was a great time. I was completely Americanised thanks to years of Jerry Lewis and the automotive industry. My heroes were The Beatles, the Stones and anything from America.


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John Cooper Clarke is a punk poet who shot to prominence in the 1970s as the original people's poet. His unique poetry - and delivery style.


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The piece is John Cooper Clarke at his most romantic and simplistic; bothered more about honesty than flair. It was turned into a song by Alex Turner for the Arctic Monkeys, back when Turner was.


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John Cooper Clarke. Actor: Control. John Cooper Clarke was born on 25 January 1949 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Control (2007), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Souvenir (2019). He is married to Evie. They have one child.


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John Cooper Clarke, a documentary kicking off BBC4 and Radio 6's Punk Britannia season. Clarke was a seminal influence on the punk movement, and might well be its most enduring.


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John Cooper Clarke: 'The last time I did exercise was in rehab in the 1980s' The 69-year-old performance poet on not owning a mobile phone, going to bed at 5am and why he hates badminton Rosanna.